RE: When is it ok to use your own content again
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You have nailed it all down, I must say.
Repetition is quite a large part of the human nature. And since that is so, trying to act like repetition is like an abomination is too stiff a hold. What I mean is, to have a an ecosystem that thrives, the ecosystem needs to be made flexible.
Flexibility, in the sense that, most authors get new insights when the revisit an article (or idea) of theirs because, with time and experience, their perspectives change and they see in a different direction.
Honestly, I personally can not feel comfortable of letting my new insight to an idea, that I have once shared, to die down or lay to waste all because I'm trying to "not upset" the ecosystem.
But with the way you nailed it, I now know better. Rather than being worried about upsetting the ecosystem, I'd instead work in a manner that would bless the ecosystem; which is "to write the repeated posts from scratch," like you have said.
Taking this a step forward ... An expert is a person who concentrates a great deal of effort on a single area. An expert heart surgeon pretty much does nothing but hearts.
A person does not become an expert without repeating the same procedures over and over again.
I would not go to a surgeon who made a point of never operating on the same part of the body part twice. I would want a heart surgeon that has concentrated on hearts for years.
The insistence that HIVE should be free of repetition means that the platform intentionally excludes experts. True expert on any given subject will end up repeating the same basic principles over and over.
Experts can be real bores.
HIVE would have no room for thinkers like Euclid. Euclid's geometry had only five postulates. Yeah, the guy repeats the postulates to create all of the theorems of Geometry, but the guy really only had original material for five posts.
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You totally cracked me up with Euclidean geometry. And you are absolutely right.
Well, I guess it is what it is. Everything here on HIVE is quite subjective. Everyone will always have their opinions and their decisions. That's basically life...
I really love your approach to this matter. Quite brilliant, I must say.