Lorrie, I put up that minimum content software to actually stop a Internet Barbarian that was seeing how many posts he could post to just harass me. I had it set at 15 and now just changed it to 8. I also have a maximum comment length of 5000.

On another note..I must say I thought it funny when I wanted to comment with a short approval and your settings wouldn’t allow me and stated “your comment is too short, please say something useful” Given your topic I thought it somewhat ironic. lol

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I do not know how you got the idea that I gave you permission to re-post my article from that article?

You seem to miss the point why many Christian author’s do not want their articles re-posted. Those who have forums where information is posted ought to at least read the policies of Google and Yahoo. We do not want our articles reposted because duplicate content is dropped from the indexes. If you repost my article sooner or later either your article or my article will be dropped from indexes like Google. When I write an article I expect people to be able to find it for years by a keyword search. If my article is not in the index it either will not be found or it will be found on your website instead of mine. Then people are not likely to find my website and read my many other articles. Also, I cannot answer questions that people might have about my article when my article is reposted on your forum.

I want people to find my website where they will get information and teachings on many things not just that one article. However, if the article was dropped from the major indexes because of duplicate content that will not happen.

So, it is not that Christian authors do not want to get their message out and want to keep God given insights they have on their own website in order to sell stuff. They just are aware that the best way to continue to get their messages out is that if everyone obeys the rules of Internet protocol. They are aware of the problems that duplicate content will cause.

You ask why some Christian sites allow you to copy their articles and others do not. Probably those that do are very well known and they get almost all of their traffic from their name recognition and direct links from other websites rather than through keyword searches on topics. At least half the people that come to my website still come here through keyword searches on a topic that I wrote about. That generally is the way people find most websites.

I allow up to a third of my article to be reposted and then there should be a link to the rest. If people are too lazy to click on the link they were not very interested in the topic anyway. The exception is if a “noindex” command is used. In that case all the article can be copied (see below).

Here is some information on the issue.
http://www.free-seo-news.com/newsletter245.htm#facts
http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=212
http://blog.milestoneinternet.com/tech-bytes/consequences-of-duplicate-content/

The “noindex” command does not allow indexing robots to index the article that you copied. Therefore, it does not becoming a duplicate content problem in the Internet indexes. Here is some info on meta commands that would be placed in the meta data of your article.

http://www.ehow.com/how_4719936_web-crawlers-using-meta-tags.html

Blessings in Christ,

Don