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Pinterest Petition
So, like most of you with food blogs I get 1000's of hits a week from pinterest so I just have to have nothing but love from them. But people don't know how to pin correctly, and their are grips, and issues, whatever. I mostly just ignore it and appreciate the traffic.
But, I did see this pettion and I'm on board.
One of the biggest issues is people posting the entire recipe in the pin and then that gets repined a billion times and no one has a need to go to your site and you lose traffic. The petion is to limit the number of charicters in a pin so that can't happen. You really don't need unlimited characters anyway, so it seems like a good thing. What do you think?
Here is the poll, sorry my computer completely ignores the hyperlink button on WC so I can't make it clicky:
http://signon.org/sign/character-limit-on-pinterest.fb1?source=s.fb&r_by=2488864
Re: Pinterest Petition
I actually don't have a problem with people copying an entire recipe into a pin - have you seen it? It's unusable - completely unformatted and unrecognizable as a recipe. God bless anyone who can follow a 20-step recipe in that format. But I also don't follow people who add a lot of commentary/copy entire blog posts because it screws up my favorite part of Pinterest - scrolling through screen after screen of beautiful pictures.
What I do have a problem with is the underlying greedy tone that the subject has taken on. I've seen a couple of cringe-worthy sidebar email discussions that have left me side-eyeing and shaking my head at a few people.
"What I do have a problem with is the underlying greedy tone that the subject has taken on. I've seen a couple of cringe-worthy sidebar email discussions that have left me side-eyeing and shaking my head at a few people."
Do you mean from bloggers? I really don't care a whole lot, but it seems like character limiting is just good practice. I do think that bloggers have a right to be upset, even though I have more of a "mehh" attitude about it. I have had this discussion with a lot of bloggers and my general advice is "Let it go, better to lose traffic than lose readers."
What bothers me more is pinning wrong because everyone loses. Not just as a blogger but as a pin follower. If I see something I love and I can't find the info I want because someone has pinned it to their email account, or the pinterest homepage then I get disappointed. Same feeling when someone likes my pictures but the pin doesn't go anywhere and they can't find my recipe.
Yes. Specifically bloggers. Complaining about lost or potentially lost ad revenue. It's all extremely off-putting.
It does suck to click a pin and have it go nowhere... and then have to find it yourself. Or resolve that you'll die trying. One can only hope that the offenders will eventually get it when they have to chase down a ghost pin themselves.
lol - yes!
Love what Pinterest has done for bloggers. While I did sign the petition and it annoys me to no end when I see a full recipe in a pin, I do not know that it does that much harm. I would like to think that if somebody likes the recipe they would go to the source to see if there are other recipes of interest. If the pin is not linked to the source, well that's a problem, but I don't know how that could be regulated.
I am not all for limiting the number of characters in pins. I like some pins to be long. In particular, I like long pins for books. I have no idea what a book is about if you just post the title or author. I want to read your synposis or review on pinterest. If I am following you for books, then I want to see your honest reccomendations and not just your book shelf.
As for recipes, I do not follow pinners who write the entire recipe in a pin. That is my choice. Is it plagarizing me when someone writes an entire recipe in the pin? Sure, but I still get traffic from people who want to print the recipe or just ready my little back story about the recipe. Some people like long recipe pins. I am all about freedom. I like the freedom to do what I want with this site.
I also like the opprotunity that nonbloggers have to post a recipe on pinterest by just uploading a photo and writing down the directions without having to go through the hassle of starting a blog that they have no desire to maintain.
I hadn't really thought about that, it's a good point. There are sites like Tasty Kitchen and Allrecipes.com that non bloggers can use to upload recipes and tne pin to that.
Aside from being a blogger, I hate to see super long pins, it ruins the aesthetic and it's the opposite of what pinterest was created for, a primarily visual tool.
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WOW. That seems unnecessarily harsh and angry.
The point of this post was just to get peoples opinions, and have a conversation. Pinterest is new, and overall, a really great site. They are also open to hearing feedback and improving/changing based on how people are responding. I would rather give them positive and helpful feedback than just "stop using it/paying attention" because the overall product is great and is deserving of the effort it takes to give suggestions.
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I was coming off a rough day at work, so I'll concede I did not think before posting as I might usually edit down a bit, and do apologize for sounding harsh but my basic thoughts are still the same, I just should have used a better tone.
You posted to get opinions, but I guess only those that agree with you? Since mine clearly dissented, but isn't apparently welcome.
You're not a regular here, unless you had an alternate name, but 216 posts since 2009 tells me probably not. It just comes off as you trolling around.
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Not exactly sure how to take that, since tone is hard to discern via text. I definatly understand a hard day at work! We've all been there.
It's not that I didn't value your option, it just felt more like an attack than an opinion. I want opinions, on all sides. Some of the people who disagreed with me were very insightful and did help me to understand to other side of the character limiting, which was what I was looking for.
"It just comes off as you trolling around. " Yikes.
I joined in 09 but just started posting about 6 months ago, I try to chime in when I feel like I have something to offer, rather than just adding noise. To be honest, once I had my daughter I felt more like I needed connections like these a lot more than I did before. I don't post every day, but I don't feel like I'm a "troll" either.
Have you really only been posting for like 6 months? I feel like you've been around forever!
Or at least longer than just 6 months...
Awww, thats sweet
I started my blog in April of last year and a few months later my sister told me about this board, so I started posting then. Probably about June, 2011? I think? But defiantly after I started my blog, which wasn't even a year ago.
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This is what I think, too. Well sort of. I DO have a problem with people copying the recipe, but it's BECAUSE it makes Pinterest look like crap. I really hate when 1 pin takes up like 4 rows of space because of all the text. I could never follow a recipe in pinned format and I can't imagine others could, either. Unless it's something like salsa chicken. For me it's bothersome more from a Pinterest user standpoint than a blogger.
Plus, I probably "lose" more traffic from people who pin things incorrectly, pin a pic of mine that doesn't go to my site, etc. Any traffic I get from Pinterest is a bonus; a source I wasn't getting last year.
Wasn't this same post made a couple days back? I swore I had replied.
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I noticed that this a.m. too.
I'm with you.
I agree with the other poster who said you are likely losing more traffic from the pin-to-nowhere. I'd be more upset about that (if I cared at all about ad revenue).
Alas, it looks like the limit has been implemented.