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[kimhellbert]

i think its line make important view for the other posts also that we should always think about this i mean that after the reading we should give post.



thanks
kimhellbert

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Are we allowed to download a PDF of an instructable/how-to and upload it to this site SO LONG AS we created it? I just finished one in instructables.com and I want to put it here.

[anwiii]

i am not understanding what you want to do when you say upload. you want to upload a pdf here? where? do you mean you want to convert the pdf to text and post it here?

if you created a pdf, why not just post a rewritten excerpt and post a link to the pdf?

i have never heard of anyone uploading a pdf here before. i guess that's why i am a bit confused what you actually want to do.

with that said, tutorial have the same rules as any other post here. original content ONLY. a good rule of thumb is that before you post something and are questioning the originality, take one line and google it. if google shows the exact words being indexed on another site, then it isn't original. even if there is unoriginal content posted here, it can still be considered original if the content from the other site isn't indexed yet.

these rules are primarily based for seo purposes i believe as google devalues unoriginal content and it hurts the forum when unoriginal content is posted.

if you don't get an answer from a mod, then do what you like. the worst that can happen is that you get a warning. big deal :)the only problem with that is you will have to bring back your warning level to 0 in order to collect your past due mycents you have accululated while you had a warning level

Edited by anwiii, 05 June 2011 - 12:36 AM.