Share 'Duplicate Content Rules reminder! Short version: Don't do it. Please.'

I'm going to be blunt, my fellow scribes: some of our members are hurting us. Sad but true. Every single time a member posts content here that they have posted elsewhere, it hurts us with Google. They call it duplicate content. Sites are penalized in the search engine rankings if they have duplicate content more now than they ever were.      What is duplicate content?   A simple definition of dup…