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Why did samcarter delete my post, simply because later other websites cross posted it?
I have rewritten this post in response to samcarter's answer.
I posted, and wrote myself, https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/287106. At the time of posting, I was unaware of any cross post. samcarter linked to subsequent verbatim cross posts on Reddit and community.teamviewer.com, but failed to stress that these cross posts appeared AFTERWARDS. We should not groundlessly presume cross posting from OP, which samcarter appears to be doing unjustly. samcarter wrote
It is hardly fair to drag other users contribution down just because you want to x-post on several sites.
but can't find the solutions you might have gotten on one of the other platforms you posted x-posted your question.
samcarter's deletion appears unjust. Users here may not control whether later other websites cross post them, so original posts here ought not be deleted simply because later other websites cross post Codidact posts.
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I deleted the post because it was verbatim the same post as on several other sites, in particular it has been cross posted on
- https://www.reddit.com/r/teamviewer/comments/xr2row/after_disabling_passwords_on_remote_teamviewer/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/teamviewer/comments/xr3e3v/after_disabling_passwords_on_remote_teamviewer/
- https://community.teamviewer.com/English/discussion/125620/after-disabling-passwords-on-remote-teamviewer-why-does-local-teamviewer-still-demand-password-for
- https://superuser.com/q/1745866/383391
without any indication of other versions of the same post.
As explained in https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/286102/286111#answer-286111 (and many comments) this is not good for this site.
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Content which is not unique and also available on established sites is not good for the search engine ranking of codidact. This not only means that other people will less likely find your content here, it even means that other people are less likely to find the questions and answers of other codidact users, who spend considerable time and effort in creating unique and good quality content. It is hardly fair to drag other users contribution down just because you want to x-post on several sites.
At the very minimum, cross-posts should be the exception and not the rule and each version of the post should be tailored to the specific customs and needs of each community.
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X-posting also has the risk of wasting both the time of users who might put time and effort in answering a post, which already has an answer elsewhere, as well as the time of users who might have the same problem but can't find the solutions you might have gotten on one of the other platforms you posted x-posted your question.
At the very minimum, each version of the post should include links to all other versions to make sure users can find them.
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