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Do you reblog? Do you like to be reblogged? Is reblogging sharing, stealing or curating?
When I first encountered reblogging on Tumblr, it looked a lot like stealing content from other people. Various platforms use reblogging differently. Tumblr and Pinterest seem to be about curating, Facebook and Twitter are more about sharing. I hate following a link from Pinterest to Tumblr and only finding reblogs, sometimes you can go through several layers of reblogs without ever finding the original source. At least Pinterest does save the source link and not just the repins although it still depends on the original pinner to choose a good source page.
To me, it’s only legitimate sharing when the original source is obvious and available. Sharing on Facebook does include the link and when it is an article, only a small portion is shown, you have to follow the link to read the full article. On WordPress reblogging is similar to facebook sharing since it includes an excerpt of the blog post, a link to the original blog post and it encourages you to add your own comments or introduction before the reblogged post. Retweeting shares the entire tweet, but is very obvious where the tweet came from and that it is a retweet.
Disclaimer, I started this post last summer, but didn’t post it because I used some of the content for a post on curation instead. I decided to finish it after a book blogger demanded I take down a post I reblogged.
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Deb's Answers 
In my opinion re-blogging has two sides; the good way uses an excerpt from the original, and a link to the full original article – the way WordPress handles re-blogging. I am happy for bloggers to re-blog my articles this way.
After all, if a blogger finds someone’s post interesting enough to re-blog, surely it’s worth given credit to the original article?
The bad way; copy and pasting the entire article, no credits (links) provided. This type of re-blog is simply plagiarism, and at least in the case of my self-hosted sites is an easy way to get the plagiarist’s site or internet IP banned.
Personally, I don’t re-blog as such. Having said that, I do use quotes, marked up in “blockquote” html, and provide a link to the original content… I guess this is strictly speaking also re-blogging, just using a different method (which is also more SEO friendly).
Then we have another type of content abuse – image hotlinking – something I object to on my self hosted sites. Don’t get me wrong – I don’t mind my images being used, shared, modified, whatever – you don’t even need to give credits… just please download them and host them on your own sites (Well, you have to anyway as hotlinking is prevented by server scripts). I don’t think I’m being nasty – it’s just that I pay for data traffic and server resources on my self-hosted sites.
Images used on my WordPress.com blogs – I don’t mind these being linked to by other WORDPRESS.COM bloggers!!! WordPress.com has magnificently powerful servers with no data or resource limitations.
At the end of the day, it’s all about ethics. An ethical (re) blogger will give credit where due, an unethical one won’t.
I agree! Thanks for commenting.
On tumblr, the original source – as far as the original person who brought the content to tumblr – will be listed on the very bottom of the actual POST – not the blog. In order to get to the actual post, you usually have to click on the date/time of the post… assuming that the layout the person has allows that. Tumblr can be a pain if you’re used to traditional blogging sites, and tumblr (like Pinterest) relies on the original poster to properly link to supply the ACTUAL link to the content if it originated outside of tumblr. The problem is that people don’t always properly use the tumblr share bookmarklet nor to people always leave original credit for content posted to tumblr.
I’ve never reblogged on WordPress, but I have on tumblr. It’s part of tumblr “culture”, and it’s the only way to have comments back and forth in a way that’s native to tumblr (that is, without using disqus). Tumblr reblogs and their format also depend on the user knowing ways to prevent posts from being truncated, the type of content being reblogged, and the layout of the user doing the reblogging.
Thanks! I really don’t have much experience with Tumbler. I would like to use it to promote my jewelry business, but I need to learn a bit more about it first.
It’s difficult to get used to coming from more traditional blogging sites like Livejournal (and the clones based on their code) and WordPress. The culture is completely different there. To be honest, tumblr seems to consist mostly of fandom and other random subcultures. I’m not sure about using it to promote a business or how that would even work, really.
I thought it would be a good place to share the pictures. It is a business, but handmade one of a kind jewelry is also art.
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Couldn’t resist reblogging a blog about reblogging 😀
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The question was “what is reblogging”. Was that ever answered?