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urg on GardenSAlley.com (was Weed free garden anyone?)
"Ian B" wrote in message ... 'Mike' wrote: "Ian B" wrote in message ... Janet wrote: Gardenalley is a commercial enterprise using urg posts ( under a different name of origin) to populate their website so they can sell webspace to advertisers. This taps into the whole question of the "free" ethos on the internet; somebody, somewhere has to pay for everything. You get these situations where people are providing value and others are earning from it; the question of ethics becomes problematic. The people who foolishly provided free content for Arianna Huffington's website didn't get upset until she sold it for 300 million smackeroonies. I sometimes post free art onto websites, but I get publicity out of that (and they get to sell ad space). I think it's a question here of misrepresentation. GA are in my view pretending, or implying anyway, to be something they aren't. I can't really prove that what they're doing is wrong, but it just doesn't feel right to me. That's more on behalf of others than myself, because as everyone knows I know sod all about gardening and mostly only post to ask questions, while gaining from reading the posts of others. They could at least just acknowledge where the heck their content is coming from. It's not too much to ask, is it? Ian So, as I have said before, if you are paranoid, as many are, about your posts on urg being copied onto gardenbanter or any other gardening, or even non gardening forums, don't post on urg. Where is the difficulty there? That's a bit silly, isn't it Mike? Ian There used to be a programme long long ago with the title on the lines of "The truth is stranger than fiction" and quite often the truth is silly. If you don't like a thing happening to you, don't do it!! Where is that advice silly? As I asked above, where is the difficulty in that? Speakers set too high? Mike -- .................................... It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. .................................... |
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