We’d have to copy-and-paste the whole post into a new post, and I generally think it’s a bad idea to duplicate material; apparently there’s mixedopinion on this. Possible downsides include confusing people, lowering PageRank, messing up search results by having the new version come ahead of the old version, and bothering other people who think it’s weird to duplicate material. On the other hand, there’s the advantage of convenience, especially for people who want to read the posts in their rss reader. Maybe we should have a poll?
Another idea: maybe we could iframe the original posts in the reruns? Although iframes are probably currently filtered out, and this would work better if there were a “print-friendly” version we could link to, as far as not duplicating content and putting the original posts directly in front of people this seems to be the best of both worlds.
Why are you reposting a summary+link, instead of the post itself?
We’d have to copy-and-paste the whole post into a new post, and I generally think it’s a bad idea to duplicate material; apparently there’s mixed opinion on this. Possible downsides include confusing people, lowering PageRank, messing up search results by having the new version come ahead of the old version, and bothering other people who think it’s weird to duplicate material. On the other hand, there’s the advantage of convenience, especially for people who want to read the posts in their rss reader. Maybe we should have a poll?
Another idea: maybe we could iframe the original posts in the reruns? Although iframes are probably currently filtered out, and this would work better if there were a “print-friendly” version we could link to, as far as not duplicating content and putting the original posts directly in front of people this seems to be the best of both worlds.
Seconded—would much rather see the whole post than just a summary.
Avoiding duplicate content for SEO? Just a guess.