That #showcase-sunday 'event' wasn't supposed to be about copy and pasting old work into a new post. In my mind when I was explaining the concept in a post and when I came up with the #showcase-sunday tag, it was about breathing new life into old work. There are several ways one can reuse old material. For instance, if you looked at quite a few of my #showcase-sunday contributions, you'd see how I compiled several old posts into one plus added commentary at both the start and finish. Over the years I created a few different series with many episodes. Each episode was its own post but for #showcase-sunday I put all episodes into one post, then added commentary. Other times I'd simply take a few old random posts and connect them somehow into one post, and again, added commentary. Some of my contributions totaled up to 10000 words.

I did notice some using the tag on Sundays were straight copy pasting and not even mentioning the fact it's an old post. I did say that was lazy in the original post describing #showcase-sunday; I also said I'm not here to tell people how to run their blogs.

It was meant to showcase good work that went unnoticed originally, or to show it to the new sets of eyes lurking about. Or the folks shitposting all week could have made one giant decent post at the end of the week, showcasing their talents. It was never meant to be a day off with pay. But once again, I will say, I'm not here to tell people how to run their blogs.

If people continuously repost old work, all they end up doing is annoying their following. If people aren't mentioning a repost is a repost, all they're doing is misleading their following. Those are the people content creators need to respect and cherish, not annoy... but I'm not here to tell people how to run their blogs.

It's unfortunate you're getting downvoted for consistently reposting old work. To be honest I had no clue those were reposts. It's unfortunate the new work is being downvoted as well, and that doesn't make sense.

I'm not going to judge you for reposting or assume you were attempting to mislead anyone or be disrespectful. But do you want to know what I do when I got nothing in the tank and can't or don't feel like coming up with new material? I don't post.

We're allowed to take time off. I'm living proof you do not become irrelevant if you skip a few days, weeks, or even months.

I'm not sure what's happening here with you and all this drama. I don't hang out behind the scenes with anyone. To be honest, part of me doesn't give a fuck. Another part wants me to tell you to calm the fuck down. The last part wants me to tell the rest of these folks to calm the fuck down. I bet if I did any of those things then I'd get all mixed up with this drama, but I'm getting too old for that shit.

P.S. I don't use or even curate the #showcase-sunday tag anymore. It turned into something it wasn't supposed to be, I saw some get in the trouble with the local content police, then my name was brought up as if I somehow gave them permission to copy/paste, which I clearly didn't.