If you want to display only the beginnings of posts on your front page followed by a link to read the full post on its own page this will reduce page loading time. That's done by splitting text by inserting the more tag into the posts themselves.

I was of the impression that the 'Like' button on the admin bar was used to initiate the Reblog feature. But when I look at the people who liked the post that got reblogged, none of them are from Hello100blog.

I contacted WordPress Staff who responded: "I see that on of our Terms of Service team members answered your question in the Forums:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/not-sure-if-this-is-a-legit-blog?replies=18".

I responded to the WordPress staff member with a few observations about what I think of blogs that are composed entirely of reblogged material. I asked the staff member to figure out how to remove my post from that site. No answer to that yet.

Good luck

I write for a specific purpose and audience. I post links on twitter and Facebook, and I don't need new traffic because of people reposting my stuff.

Thanks again for the info, auxclass. I also saw in an earlier comment here how to report abusive reblogging. I'll keep an eye on this particular site.

The reality is that anyone can copy and paste on the internet - just make someone work a bit harder to steal things.

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I'm not sure what to do here. Should I put a disclaimer at the top of every post that says, "My work may not be reprinted, reposted, or reblogged without my express permission"? That's not a sarcastic question, by the way. If I put that on every post and someone reblogs, do I then have a stronger argument for why it should be removed?

as far as I can tell there is nothing at hello.com (there isn't even an actual link in the first place) and so it just comes across as weird and not spammy.

Weird stuff usually is spammy, even if it doesn't immediately appear so. Anyone who's ever looked at a comment moderation queue knows that. And your standard tumblr-style reblogger who's just sharing stuff they find interesting is not going to claim to be a 'global network' or mention 'adverts' on their about page. I'm just saying.

The thing is, tossing out the reblogging feature would not stop content theft. Granted it make it easier for people to grab bits of your stuff,

Well, exactly. I'm not naîve to think it stops it. I just don't see why wordpress would want to enable it -- make it easier. I get your point about sharing -- but then this sharing ought to consist of only title, possibly a few lines of text, but never photos, and then the link to the original source.

Timethief: That does seem quite spammy to me. I have reported the blog as spam but I hadn't seen that description or I would have included it.

markel: The blogs I have seen don't have 'a lot' of reblogged posts, they have practically only reblogged posts. The blogs I have had this issue with were clearly interested in me sending them more traffic rather than the other way around.

Reblogging as a feature is here to stay on WordPress.com and at this time we don't have any plans to allow blogs to specifically block the reblogging of their content.

Makes me very sad to hear. I think it's highly unfortunate, but I guess it pleases spammers and those who don't have any original contributions to make.

However, there are some blogs that have a large number of reblogged posts as they are run by users who do a lot of reading of other WordPress.com sites and want to share the good stuff they have found on WordPress.com with others. Those blogs are considered to be legitimate and in the vast majority of cases are going to prove to be beneficial to the originating content as they send readers and traffic back to the original.

Whether the blog in question is spam or not is currently inconclusive; I did see the About page that is discussed here, but as far as I can tell there is nothing at hello.com (there isn't even an actual link in the first place) and so it just comes across as weird and not spammy.

Reblogging as a feature is here to stay on WordPress.com and at this time we don't have any plans to allow blogs to specifically block the reblogging of their content.

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The thing is, tossing out the reblogging feature would not stop content theft. Granted it make it easier for people to grab bits of your stuff, but at least what they end up with is within copyright fair use.

I'm not against the reblogging feature as strongly as I was originally.

The blog the person who started that thread refers to in the initial post must be created by the same blogger/spammer who reblogged me today -- that one also had the name 'hello100blog', but another (though similar) address on wordpress. (I won't link to it since it's apparently used for spam purposes.)

I also read that blog post you posted a link to earlier ('we all like reblogging'...) and noticed you had asked this question (about disabling reblogging) there and got an answer.... that, well, is rather disappointing. (Turning the blog private is a lousy option -- truly lousy!)

If all the blog in question contains is reblogged posts and no original content then it's a slpog and you can report it as one.

Thank you -- that's great! I didn't this applied to blogs that contain no original content. But given their spam-like nature, this makes sense now that I think of it.

No I don't. But it is redundant -- copyright applies whether there's a notice or not. So it would be just for show.

As I'm a paralegal I'm aware of that but I choose to post a copyright notice as a warning anyway. We Volunteers cannot assist you. As I said above I believe you ought to report this to Staff. If all the blog in question contains is reblogged posts and no original content then it's a slpog and you can report it as one.

The problem is, though, these 'reblogging' blogs are some kind of spam blogs, or some equivalent, but it's very similar to spam. They reblog other people's pictures (in this case) almost automatically -- they spout out new posts all the time. And all the posts are reblogged -- all the photos are from other people. Much like other spammers don't care, I doubt these 'bloggers' care what notices I post. They don't look.

I would actually not be quite as mad about this if I felt it were genuine bloggers who liked what I did and who had their own blogs with their own material on them too. I might actually be happy about that, depending on circumstances.

But this seems to be something different.

Any content reblogged from this site must adhere to the terms of © Copyright
That page states in part:
"A brief excerpt of content that does not exceed 75 words may be quoted as long as a link is provided back to the source page on this blog and authorship is properly attributed."

I also have a copyscape notice in the same text widget.