I think this is a case of Russian-culture LJ use being very different than English-culture LJ use! (When I was still working for LJ, I was always so fascinated how two separate groups of people using the exact same platform could develop such wildly different cultural rules.) I know that reposting is widely used in Russian-culture LJ use, but English-culture LJ use generally considers copy/pasting someone's post into your own journal to be very rude, even with credit ("originally posted by so-and-so"). People view it as "taking their stuff".
Ultimately it comes from different views of 'private' vs 'public' -- like, a lot of people on English-culture LJ view their journals as just written for their friends even if the entries themselves are public, because people feel like they know exactly who their audience is. People who feel that way think of reposting as a privacy violation because it's putting their entries in front of a wider audience. (It's not that either view is right or wrong, it's just how the culture developed!)
So basically, in having this discussion I'm looking for a way that would work for both cultural views and not leave either 'side' feeling like the feature was badly designed or was violating their cultural rules.
Are there any DW regulation that consider manual copying of posts with the links to the original as a privacy violation?
If you copied the entire text of someone's entry and posted it to your journal, even if you credited the original author, they could report that as a copyright violation (because it copied their work). We wouldn't automatically remove a copy/pasted post, though; the original author would have to report it as a copyright violation.
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Ultimately it comes from different views of 'private' vs 'public' -- like, a lot of people on English-culture LJ view their journals as just written for their friends even if the entries themselves are public, because people feel like they know exactly who their audience is. People who feel that way think of reposting as a privacy violation because it's putting their entries in front of a wider audience. (It's not that either view is right or wrong, it's just how the culture developed!)
So basically, in having this discussion I'm looking for a way that would work for both cultural views and not leave either 'side' feeling like the feature was badly designed or was violating their cultural rules.
Are there any DW regulation that consider manual copying of posts with the links to the original as a privacy violation?
If you copied the entire text of someone's entry and posted it to your journal, even if you credited the original author, they could report that as a copyright violation (because it copied their work). We wouldn't automatically remove a copy/pasted post, though; the original author would have to report it as a copyright violation.