Do you think it's weird or otherwise idiotic to "crosspost"?
Or do you think there's no problem with doing so?
Say like you have a really great topic(That would really get replies, sorta thought-provoking) on your forum and you decide to post it on a different forum, but of a similar niche.
Personally, I think if it's a game review(that you made yourself) and you decide to post it on a few other forums, hey.. if people like it, more points for you.
It depends the place. I don't think there is a problem reproducing something you created like an article of a review, but some people take much care about repeated content and if they are against it you better do your best to respect it. So First place is keeper.
I have 'lost' some articles I've made this way, I made it in X forum and they're against cross posting, so I leave it there only.
I don't really care or mind. I'll post what I want and where I want. It doesn't make a different either because the internet is a vast place so the likelihood of producing something fresh and completely unique is very low.
Ive been called a spammer before for posting the same topic on a couple forums. I don't see how that makes me a spammer, a good discussion idea posted in different communities can generate whole different discussions because different people are discussing it.
If someone copied/pasted a topic they thought was interesting on my forum, I wouldn't mind at all. It probably happens all the time and I dont even know it.
The chances of making a unique topic of conversation on the internet is probably not possible so it really doesn't matter what you post. It's content like tutorials or articles that count, not posts of what you had for tea the other night.
Yeah, the idea is not about making conversation about something that has been said before, people make for example long text with very similar things in it in movie reviews that you find in forums, blogs, websites dedicated to let people give their input...
I still think Delirious meant by duplicated content the cases when you basically copy and paste without altering it.
Myself I feel like Wober about the issue in my forum, I don't mind if it is not plagiarism and it is something interesting, it is only if I am in other people's places where they have in their rules not to cross-post articles/threads because it affects their SEO, I will not. Everywhere else I don' see it as a big deal and in fact I answer many times the exact same thread, posted by the same user in different promotion forums. The replies makes up for a different read or feel, so for me it is not a big deal.
Maybe I am wrong but I really think you need to have so many 'copy&pasted" content from other places that the engine consider you some sort of nest storage feeding up from other places with no relevant content on your own to display what will push you down. A few articles you bring to your blog or forum, relevant to your niche is done by popular places that still top in the search engines results. So I think sometimes admins get too much paranoia about this, specially when your forum is not starting out and already got 'content' of its own, being silly thread or great tutorial's articles, etc.
