Crossposting

[pez]

I was going to scan and rip PureBoys things, but just found out they are downloadable over at pureboys. Some entries are locked, though, you'll have to join to download them.

Which reminds me of the mystery of the way people share things.

Given the following:
1) The files hosted are on file-sharing sites, not on somebody's own server
2) The community is unmoderated, everyone's free to join and post
3) The OP does not have a grudge against other comms

Why do people post to, for example, pureboys, and say there that "I'd normally crosspost to tenipuri_myu too, but not this time, just want to share it here"? Initially I thought they wanted to encourage others to join the comm, but they don't post to other places advertising that the files are downloadable if they join this certain community.

It's not just this one comm, of course. I see it happening in different places and I don't understand why. Am I missing the point somewhere?

More on "crossposting":

Here is when and where to use the note "crossposted to [blah]": when you've posted something in one place (eg. your LJ) and linked it to other places (eg. LJ comms), you add the note to the original post where the content is, ie, the your actual LJ post. It helps you keep track of where it's been advertised, in case you need to go back and edit the posts.

You do not put the note on the comm posts saying "it's been posted to blah and blahblah". Nobody's interested in that. If I'm in both those comms, I'll know that it's been crossposted because I'll see it twice. If I'm in just one of those comms, I'm not interested in knowing that you linked it somewhere else as well. All you're doing is making your announcement post longer, and if you've posted to 5 comms that are all on my flist, your unnecessary longer posts just take up even more room on my friends page and I don't need to be told 5 times that you're "sorry if you see this 5 times". Chances are I either won't care or won't forgive you anyway.

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Somebody emailed me photos of a whale being carried on a truck down the road, somewhere in Taiwan possibly. The whale'd been cut open and its guts were spilling out. I really didn't need to see that.

Niou-hedgehog came with me to work. :D

I've been asked to call and chase up on something for work, but I've never heard of the guy, don't have his contact details, and don't know what's going on with that work.

New icon made for me by teaesque! ♥

Comments

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

It's just strange, I think. Especially with "normally I'd share PB things there, but these files I won't".... it isn't like it's been uploaded to a private server or something. =_=" Both comms have open membership anyway.

I hate having to join tenipuri_myu, shiroi_no_ouji AND pureboys just to be sure I can download files of Yagami Ren. WTF.

[impressioniste.livejournal.com]

I feel you on that one :(

I don't want to join 2308947289034728937423 communities. I sort of wish things could get posted in a central spot.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

It'd be really useful if the track function is available to everyone (not just paid users) and when posting, people remember to tag posts properly. That way, I could unfriend the comm and just track it for any posts that's tagged "yagami ren", for example...

But that requires people being organised, and it's impossible with large comms, I suppose. =/