Gonna try that banabread recipe, got some over ripe ones at home.

Gric now says he knows he is farming and he is okay with it. He thinks we just ought to pay him money just because he is posting on hive. I don’t get the logic, do you? Not to mention he is on full powerdown and does have a foul mouth!

I'll need to see your banana to be 100% clear about this situation. 
 

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Very interesting and thoughtful.  This topic just came up in a Discord chat I am in and I wanted to make sure I read your post before I really responded to it.  Despite the fact that so many people seem to hate you :) I respect your insight and opinion.  Thanks for sharing this as a proper post!

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Sounds exactly right and how I see things on Hive. If you repost an old post and make very little changes then expect down votes.

Well, I learned the hard way that on hive it is acceptable never. I reposted a handful of old posts that were originally posted more than 5 years ago on that other platform primarily because I wanted to correct some formatting issues (mostly broken image links) and was nailed by hivewatchers for my trouble.

I can definitely see how reposting your old content CAN be abusive but chances are, rewarded previously or not, there is a whole new audience 5 years later. Why should a new audience be prevented from rewarding your older stuff? People that have read and rewarded your content previously can make their own decisions.

Given the nature of hive and the fact that old posts typically aren't even seen, it seems like it should be reasonable to repost content after some reasonable time period. Of course "reasonable" can be highly subjective but surely in a supposedly decentralized system that can at least be handled by individual voters and not a self-appointed policing agency? 

I get it, this is the real world and we have things like autovotes and other factors that skew things. Not that i have a specific solution but what we need is a smarter way to vote or a smarter hivewatchers instead of this one size fits all approach.

In principle, I'm in alignment with that.

There are nuances, of course. I write a lot of *"long content"* and as part of that I realize that I periodically write about something I wrote about in the past *(often YEARS in the past)* although both the *"old"* and *"new"* posts will have been created from scratch.

For example, quite recently I wrote a piece about being an expat and missing certain food items... and a few days later I realize that I actually wrote something pretty similar a few years back. I didn't *copy* anything, and it's unlikely a plagiarism checker would even recognize the two pieces as *"the same"* but I probably said pretty much the same thing.

When you've been a fairly prolific writer for 25+ years, that's likely to happen. 

But that's quite different from outright *"recycling"* old posts. 

So next time, make a banana with wings. That would be something! 

I did downvote a few things on Gric's posts, but I did think about it further.

I think I would prefer curators to stop voting for recycling your own post, but those dang autovoters.

But, for the most part, I like your assessment.

On any other website monetised via ads, affiliate links or the like, they'd be incentivised to edit and add to the original post.

To create new, supporting content that links back to the old, evergreen piece to build your authority on the topic.

But here, they're incentivised to ignore that one and copy and paste the same content into a new post to milk rewards.

Hive's 7 day reward window incentivises people to create short, throw-away content with no value just like this guy.

Sigh.

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I'm one of many that needs to see this post and I'm so glad I did. It's only wise to learn from the experience of others when they share and this is a really good advice.

Recycling post for me, only proves that as a writer you are not growing or learning enough. But I have a question though, what about recycling a post to another platform, is it acceptable? 

Never really thought about all of this, hard to say one "good" way to catch all of the freeloaders while allowing for copying older posts. Also a reason I would never want to be the one looking for these posts. (No clue about the drama, just wanted to put my 2-cents in on the reuse dilemma)

My biggest thing is effort, was there any effort in making it better and ultimately cultivating a better experience for learning or whatnot while reading? 

I think it's fair to say that as one grows, new audiences develop while older "fans" slowly fall off and seek different content and newer people. Void of rewards, and the idea of asking for rewards twice, new people to your content may not see your previous posts. Or even better, you just improved a ton and felt you could reach a larger audience and explain better than the original. (But again this goes into improving enough to the point of deserving a new post and rewards)

It's impossible to ride the line between good re-use and freeloading with solid parameters but that's where I feel like things should be. Just like everything in this world, the first draft is always going to be the ugliest, due time and effort make the fruits of labor.

I know this is a bit scatterbrain, in essence, I agree with everything @revise.leo said in his comment. 

I'm gonna use this for my banana bread post.

![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmbpMFFwabGhMQhaZvxBE3YMJzFdgHRU8Yzrq1iGeNCLJR/kakaotalk_20220707_162021224.gif)

I remember awhile back starting something I called Showcase Sunday, meant to breathe new life into old work.  So a few examples I tried would be to combine several old posts into one, plus add commentary about what was happening back then, which I guess would be similar to a *director's cut.*

There were people that would post maybe one photo per post so I thought maybe they could showcase that talent at least once per week, show the pictures again as a group and maybe add some commentary.  Same thing with artwork.

I thought folks could do some rewrites and fine tuning.  I remember combining twelve episodes of one series I produced early on, reworking some of the editing and appearance, and making it all one long epic post; the whole thing in one link.  I saw others writing short chapters and thought they could rework those chapters into one long post.

But instead all people did was copy/paste old stuff exactly the way it was presented the first time.  No changes, nothing.  Ten seconds of work, then post.  Some folks were doing it right by making something new out of old work, but most just took it as a way to repost, which wasn't the goal.  So I shut it down.  Didn't want to be responsible for that.

I'll often use old images in new writing.  Can see my thumbnails get used multiple times but the post isn't about the thumbnail.  In a recent post you can see 'Nothing' and I even said that was old, but made new.  I changed it up a bit.  Breathed new life into something simple and the new jokes extended all the way down into the comment section.

 https://peakd.com/life/@nonameslefttouse/new-nothing-some-pointless-swirly-goop-and-a-nameless-character 

If one posts something once and gets little to no reaction, chances are doing it again will yield the same result so it's best to go back to the drawing board and try something new, rather than practicing what some know as the definition of insanity.

I think if I kept repeating myself and showing the same work but adding nothing new, all I'd do is annoy people coming to see something new.  Wouldn't want the reputation of being repetitive.  People are still free to go back and read old work, leave a comment, and upvote your response if they want to support that post or author.  What's the point of a permanent store of data if what's on it is deemed useless because it's not 'new'.  Old stuff is still valuable.  It just can't be voted on but that doesn't matter.  One can even leave a tip if they wanted.  

The Simpsons and Southpark use the same art constantly, same voices, but the show is always different.

I'll just add I agree with your take.  Could post about the banana.  Could post about the banana peel.  Could even post about the shit you took after eating the banana.  But who the hell would want to see that show all over again...