____/ Rick on Tuesday 21 August 2007 21:17 : \____
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:59:36 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>
>> dapunka <dapunka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> On 20 Aug, 10:22, Hadron <hadronqu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> waterskidoo <water.ski...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>> > On 2007-08-19, William Poaster <w...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> >> It was on, or about, Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:30:49 +0000, that as I
>>>> >> was halfway through a large jam doughnut, Rick wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >>> On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:26:48 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >>>> It's all about Roy and why he plagiarizes so many links from
>>>> >>>> legitimate news distribution web sites in order to reduce their
>>>> >>>> hit count and to increase his.
>>>>
>>>> >>> And AGAIN, how do you plagiarize a link? How? A link is a link,
>>>> >>> and it sends you to the content... content that is plainly
>>>> >>> generated by someone else, complete with their bylines.
>>>>
>>>> >> You *can't*, but Quack doesn't understand what plagiarise means.
>>>>
>>>> > I agree with this and still don't get what he is claiming.
>>>>
>>>> Because again, you don't check the original threads.
>>>>
>>>> Work is work. These sites did work to collect the links and provide
>>>> their own comments. People visiting their sites generate hit count.
>>>>
>>>> Roy has plagiarised their work (the collecting of the links), added
>>>> his own comments and reposted them - thus removing the need for people
>>>> to go to the originating (of the the links) site.
>>>>
>>>> Easy enough.
>>>
>>> Okay, so if Roy didn't post a particular link, I would automagically
>>> find and visit this "link collecting site" that Roy cunningly steals
>>> links from. Is that it?
>>
>> No. You go and READ the originating Linux news site and read THEIR take
>> on it without Roy's intervention. Click here for an example:
>>
>> http://www.linuxtoday.com/
>>
>>
>> Doing what he does a few times is ok, but he effectively duplicates
>> their work.
>
> ... so you are saying linuxtoday plagiarizes links, too?(snip)
What a bunch of baloney. I read about 100 Linux-related feeds. LinuxToday is
usually a day or two behind, so I rarely find anything there (which I haven't
already found somewhere else, usually /directly/ at the source which I also
syndicate). Brian only posts links to about 30 articles per day and many come
through recommendations. It's a lot of very mainstream stuff, so the new
breaks in small blogs that 'leak' information and beat the press.
I used to vocally protest /against/ LinuxToday because of the "Get the Facts"
period and links to Enderle. I was not the only one. Their readership was
apparently declining.
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