How do I follow the original content guidelines on Connect?

[hasinthawera]

Thanks for the information

[MoniV]

Hi @hasinthawera ,

Just a kind reminder, you can tag Connect members in your posts by writing @ before their name. This way they receive a notification and know that you are trying to communicate with them directly.

[AkhilGarg91]

Hi @DeniGu ,

I am using my own content from my blog. I dont know why those post are getting removed. I can use my blog content right??

[AkhilGarg91]

Hi @MoniV ,

I am using my own content from my blog. I dont know why those post are getting removed. I can use my blog content right??

[MoniV]

Hi @AkhilGarg91 ,

We encourage Local Guides to share photos and content they made especially for Connect. I agree that the photos and the content are yours, but they appear in your blog, too. Also, sharing the URL to your blog in every post can be considered self promotion, which is against our Local Guides program rules.

[AkhilGarg91]

Hi @MoniV ,

That doesn’t make any sense that I cant post content from my blog (I dont know how it violates any guideline of the program). I can remove link though.

[Laofdez]

@DeniGu I found your post incredibly useful. As a teacher, I face this problem daily; students using other people’s information and material as their own. It’s important to show learners from a young age what plagiarism is and provide them with the necessary guidelines to become responsible digital citizens so they can eventuallly turn into ethical local guides.

#beinternetawesome #interland #letsguide #letshelpguide

[MoniV]

Hi @AkhilGarg91 ,

As mentioned before, we encourage Local Guides to post their own content, which is made especially for Connect.
The reason why some of your posts have been removed is that they have been taken as self-promotion, or copied from another source. I can see that your content is genuine and not copy-pasted from a different source. However, in order to not be taken as self-promotion (which is against Local Guides program rules too), I’d advise you to refer less to external blogs (where your full informative article is posted) and post as much original content as you can on Connect.

[absucceed]

Great. Thanks for informing ahead. Take care. With lots of love from Calabar, Nigeria.

[Seedra]

Thank you @DeniGu for this valuable post. I also going to bookmark this post. I sent this link to my friends in connect. Copyright is very important. we all get more information for our post by searching Google search so it is necessary give copyrights and credits. This post make every one acknolaged how to write a good post on connect.

[VijayaNagesh]

I have used few pictures for Local Guides Connect, which i have downloaded from Google.

And i am really not aware of it, that this is violation of rule.

I really regret for the same and i am requesting all the Local Guides, not to use downloaded or others stuff.

I am removing few pictures from Google maps also.

Thank you @LilyanaZ for alerting and helping me to do things in right way.

This incident should be a lesson to all the Local Guides.

If this helps a single one also i will be very happy.

[LilyanaZ]

Hello @VijayaNagesh ,

Thank you for posting this, but since it is not an idea I am going to merge it to the How do I follow the original content guidelines on Connect? article.

Please make sure you check the following articles How do I use the Idea Exchange? and 14 helpful tips for using Connect.

[MarleneGu]

Thank you for sharing this!

[Ramon_VJ]

Thank you for sharing this!

[omermelhag]

Thanks so much for sharing this!

[system]

@Ramon_VJ is this a review spammer? Did you reported him?

[Adnan_Storyteller]

Thanks a lot. will maintain this

[Fatonis]

This information is very helpful

[OanaNanana]

Thank’s for sharing your tips with us, @DeniGu !

[Dohoko-12]

Hola buenos días, una pregunta ¿cómo quito de mi lista un lugar que ya cerro de manera permanente?

Se trata de una funeraria local.

Muchas gracias de antemano por la atención a este mensaje