Hi manuelmoreale,

What is the compelling advantage of this?

I have a blog (such as it is), hand-rolled HTML and RSS. What benefit would I potentially get from the extra work of duplicating the content, rather than the date and headline?

Well, if it’s hand rolled and you have to duplicate everything by hand then sure, I can see why you want to only do titles and dates.

But that’s an exception. Many, many sites out there run on a cms and require no extra effort to serve full content in the RSS feed.

Easy way to get your content stolen unfortunately

And that in your opinion is a valid enough reason to make the experience of genuine users, worse?

I’m genuinely asking because to me, who cares if someone steals my content. They can steal it anyway, people will scrap your site if they need.

But I want the user experience for the users to be the best possible.

If you're worried about that you aren't blogging for the public www, though, right?

The content stealers will have no problem scraping your HTML if you just provide summaries in your feed.

In fact my feed has full content and based on the differences in HTML in my feed and the direct page it seems like most often they scrape the page anyways.

It's a blog, it's already public, what is there to steal?

>what is there to steal?

Monetizable traffic. People mirror sites wholesale, throw monetization on it and apply blackhat techniques to ensure they outrank origin site.

I doubt anyone will do that on a personal blog.

Oh, they absolutely do. It's all automated bots. What people don't understand however is that you can report it to Google and/or file a DMCA on it yourself. That's all part and parcel to having any kind of public output.

Or you just ignore it because unless you're (probably fruitlessly) trying to monetize it you'll just drive yourself crazy.