REBLOG OF BOB STEWART: reBlogs now require commentary

Hi Mike!  I did not know this was new.  I always add commentary when I reblog and yesterday I noticed there was a minimum of 25 words required.  Usually I add more than that, and when I saw this thought it had been that way all along.  There's always changes in the Rain! :o)

Bob...I like the 25 words.  It makes the re-blogger point out why the content is so important to be re-blogged.

Isn't the reason behind this to try to stop people from just reblogging for points?  25 words is not much and true some wordies can be much more interesting with less, but there needs to be some rules and regulations otherwise the point system becomes watered down.

Someone commented on one of my posts the other day so I went over to their blog to see what they had to say. I had to go to the third page before finding something that they had actually written themselves. It was a Wordless Wednesday photo post!

Reblogging is a good idea but using reblogging to fill up all of your own blog doesn't make sense to me. It just tells me that the blogger is either lazy or unable of producing original thought.

I think the commentary is a good idea. Otherwise, it is too easily abused.

Mike:  Ummm... didn't you eat a good breakfast this morning ?  Yikes.  Perhaps a nice nap would help.

Any change like this will of course bother some folks.  But, all in all, I think it is a great idea.  Too many serial re-bloggers out there who CLOG the blog roll.  And sometimes... there are incidents when a serial re-blogger arrives about thirty minutes before the end of the AR day, and posts a bunch of comment-less re-blogs, and then when the clock hits the next day... he does another bunch.  Wow, does that clog up the blog-roll.

This comment requirement will do two things.  Slow down the serial re-blogger, and make the genuine re-blogs more valuable by adding the reasoning behind why the person is re-blogging it.

Mike, I always add commentary when I reblog. I can't understand why someone would reblog without a commentary, unless it's just to stack points.

Mike`

RIGHT ON!!..

BTW, If this were a reBlog, you could count on at least a couple of paragraphs =)

I have always added commentary....and yet some people still don't read it and confuse the original writer and my content.  Oh, well, reading just isn't some people forte.  However, I do like to explain why I am reblogging and, usually, compliment the author.