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Re: On Republishing Comments

halim@guitars blog — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:12:16 -0000

I think there still a lot of misunderstood of backtype purpose, isn't it? This issue must be solve soon.

Re: On Republishing Comments

Tom — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:31:36 -0000

How do I block you from stealing my content?

Re: On Republishing Comments

golda — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:59:11 -0000

The blog author you contacted can prevent BackType from indexing his comments. Here's how:
http://www.backtype.com/faq#q14

Similar to other search engines, like Google and Yahoo, BackType honors the robots exclusion protocol.

Re: On Republishing Comments

Mathew — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:00:29 -0000

Publishing comments from other peoples blogs is defiantly not ethical, I contacted the author of one of the blogs who's comments are listed here and he certainly didn't know and didn't want his comments appearing on this site, to me this should be opt in by blog owners only.

Re: On Republishing Comments

tfl — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:15:15 -0000

One question regarding your summary: do you (now or in the future) re-publish comments with advertising. That is, is your business model built on monetising comments?

I think (and hope) the answer is NO, but it would be useful to formally declare your position. I was one who did not like th idea tha some sites will reuse blog posts and comments for ad income generation (especially when that income is not shared with the orignal writer).