To begin with intention to comment on another blogger’s blog and end with a post on my own blog that links directly to the content of the other blogger’s blog in a way that might be seen to have taken the other blogger’s content out of context and twisted it to suit the means and ends of my own blogging. Would you say that’s right or wrong?
For example, let me take this from a recent post by Mark W Jackson:
(without having asked first if that’s ok – because)
From a gambling website “thanks for that awesome posting. It saved MUCH time ”
I didn’t know my poetry saved time, might be a new marketing angle?
That gambling website spamment philosophically fascinates me Mark. On the surface, it seems to be saying that ‘saving time‘ is one of their key success factors, and that your posting has been identified as one of their potential strengths. It’s hard though to see how saving time can in and of itself benefit a gambling website, unless it was actually the website programmer that sent the message. It might be the case that your post has been integrated into their website source code, thus reducing the amount of time spent on code development. I wonder though how much time they spent on doing the research that it must have taken to find your post. Could it have been better spent developing their own?
On the other hand, there might be something else going on there; something underneath the surface appearance of what that spamment is saying. It might just be that a backlink has been created between your post and the gambling website. You might think you can ‘spam’ it, but what happens then? The spam keeps on coming doesn’t it? Why? We’re all pretty savvy to the spam now, and there are tools like Akismet that can take it all away without us even noticing it was there in the first place. So why does it keep on coming? I’m not a betting man but I’ll bet there’s a backlink in there somewhere that we are not being told about.
So back to my original question then.
To begin with a comment on another blogger’s blog and end with a post on my own blog that links directly to the content of the other blogger’s blog in a way that might be seen to have taken the other blogger’s content out of context and twisted it to suit the means and ends of my own blogging. Would you say that’s right or wrong?
Further resources consulted:
[1] The whys, whyfors and why nots of commenting
[2]
Object to Be Destroyed
Now, if I were to take this comment and repost in on my blog? Or perhaps linking to the post, http://markwmjackson.com/2011/11/26/the-best-of-the-spammers/ that would then post a link back on my page where people would travel, and then click the first link in your post. I feared that if I tagged ‘wordpress’ in my post that I might create a vortex that could potentially swallow us whole, but now we’ve created an infinite loop. Brad, we have become death, destroyers of worlds.
That would be cool Mark. Looks like it didn’t come off though. Thanks for trying anyway.
I’m sure we’ll find another way to bring the system down.