Is there any point doing copy and paste blog posts where I just copy somebody else's post, change a few things that I think look a bit shit and bang it up on my own blog like one of my own posts?
That is something I really don't have a firm opinion on, as there is a solid argument to be made that it's pointless plagiarism that pisses off the author and serves no useful purpose.
On the other hand I do have reasons for doing it from time to time. I don't make any income from this blog so it's not about that. Most of the content I post is primarily aimed at me, rather than any unknown and possibly non existent readers. Those thousands of hits I appear to be getting could well be mostly AI.
But when I'm trying to share some good info with my friends sometimes the links I send them just kill the whole experience. A prime example is anything on Substack. To me, the entire platform is a dog's breakfast, confusing, filled with subscriptions and pop-ups, an ugly mess.
Another example is the Miles Mathis website. I don't know what is really going on with any of his bizarre story, there are some great essays on there, but his website is a complete lemon. I actually did a post about Miles Mathis here.
And there are several other sites with some good content I'd like to share, but either the sites are a complete mess, or the links just don't work at all, so I often just give up and skip posting them.
This month I decided to change my attitudes to blogging, and stop being so anal. To just post whatever I feel like. And that is going to include doing more copy and paste posts. I'm not sure how many or where from, but just some things that I find interesting and would like share.
Hopefully they won't piss off too many content creators and I will include a link to the original content even if those don't always work very well. The links will look something like this:
This post is a lightly edited copy of an article by "Messy but Perceptive Dude" which can be found here: https:/the.original.url
