Respect lol. Come on dude...Ive never read DMN nor clicked any of their links, even if posted here. This isnt about respect.
This is about large companies, daily, send cease letters to people they KNOW dont have money to fight back, and they have no case.
How would I know about this? From my multiple years spent talking with and working around FORD trademarks.
DMN doesnt want their content shared, per the letter, so why do they have twitter, facebook, email and text message sharing buttons built into each of their article pages?
Because they want their articles shared.
The only issue comes if Reality is running a for-profit site here, which based off donation posts I've seen in the past, is not the case.
Certainly, dont share the entire article. But to "respect" DMN's request to not share when they have SHARING built into their website is hilarious.
Keep your head in the sand.
sure they put sharing on there. lets look, shall we?
facebook, twitter, e-mail. i don't see "cowboyszone" or "hey, do what you want" either. when you share to facebook you get a headline and the first sentence more or less. *THIS IS WHAT I SAID YEARS AGO WE SHOULD ONLY DO HERE" - but i was told by the mod at the time they didn't want to have to police it and it would never be an issue. so i shut up. not my site.
people eventually cut it back to a few paragraphs and hoped that would be enough but it doesn't appear to be. in each of those buttons THEY control how much of their content is shared and give you a "clickbait" type taste of the article. do they not? do they NOT control how the info is shared?
i believe they do. so your connection and putting more, if not entire articles out here, being fine obviously doesn't even line up with your own sharing scenario. at least we agree sharing the entire article is bad. now how much should be shard? if your site, is that under your control or people who want to do it their way?
it's about hits. that's it. the DMN right or wrong feels posting more content than they allow pulls away hits, not gives them more. i would like to think they have an analytics team back there looking to see if this is true vs. a few angry people in here who saw a dashboard once for SEO and analytics.
the only issue really comes from who created/owns the content and how they wish to use it. again, i don't agree with their decisions, but it is their content and all this "we can get around it by..." talk is only going to make it worse. ie - "just don't link back to them but copy their articles over!"
i can only hope those suggesting that don't follow through.
again, i don't like their decision, i don't agree with their decision, but it *is* their content.