UPDATE<\/b>: I got a lovely email from the blogger in question (and he played along with our joke in the comments section – and said: “It’s me. The boob man.” hahaha) He apologized for excerpting too much of my content. Really nice of him, really nice email. Thanks, dude! I appreciate it! Like I said below, I was sure he meant no harm by it.\/END UPDATE<\/b><\/p>\n
It is very bad manners to take an entire post I have written (or 90% of it) – put it on your site – and provide a measly link back to the post. No. Bad form. Another bad form: taking an excerpt of something I’ve written – and then the only link you provide back is to the CATEGORY ARCHIVE from whence my post came. Which means it would be very difficult for any reader to come to MY site and find the original post.<\/p>\n
Seriously. If you want to link to my stuff and think a paragraph or two is good enough to excerpt – go for it. But not the whole post – just to keep people on YOUR site as opposed to mine. Bad. Bad. Bad.<\/p>\n
Maybe I just don’t understand this site<\/a>. It’s not quite a blog – but – what is it? What is this “stumble upon” I am seeing in the URLs? And when you click on the link that supposedly goes to my site – you go to yet another link – where I am excerpted. I’m quite dense, regarding different kinds of blogs, etc. So I’m not even sure what I’m looking at. Regardless, I do not like how I am being excerpted there and I don’t quite know how to contact this person. He obviously likes my Dino posts, and others – but I very much dislike how he lifts my entire posts off my site, puts them on his, and then only provides a link back to me.<\/p>\n I do appreciate that that he likes the Dino posts.<\/p>\n But seriously: learn how to excerpt properly. I learned how to do excerpts in, uhm, 10th grade English class – so there’s no excuse. None whatsoever.<\/p>\n Hopefully – he’ll see this post in his own referral logs – and change his excerpting ways. I’m sure he means no harm. But I’m just tellin’ ya right now: excerpting someone else’s writing like that is bad form<\/i>.<\/p>\n (And if I am misunderstanding the purpose of this Stumble Upon thing – then that is due to my own ignorance. I just don’t like seeing an entire post of mine sitting on someone else’s site, regardless.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UPDATE: I got a lovely email from the blogger in question (and he played along with our joke in the comments section – and said: “It’s me. The boob man.” hahaha) He apologized for excerpting too much of my content. … Continue reading