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.

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Comments

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And um, I think when people say they just want to share things in a certain place, they mean they think the other comm's watchers won't be receptive, not them wanting to share exclusively. As in, they are just thinking out loud about where they post.

... Er, that's how I understand it most of the times, anyway.