"Unique Content" - clarification, please

Hello editors,

I'd like to hear your opinion on what is considered a "unique content". For example, there are a lot of online artciles already written on the strategy of backgammon game. Does it mean that we should not publish our OWN content - articles written by our editors - on this topic?

As I undestand DMOZ guidelines your main concern is that people should not copy and paste the material that is already found online (which is illegal anyway). Am I right on that? Please, clarify...

>>Does it mean that we should not publish our OWN content - articles written by our editors - on this topic?

It does not mean that. I think the point is that you SHOULD publish YOUR own content.

As you say, there are a lot of articles about backgammon already. It will be the editors' judgment as to whether your articles contain "sufficient sufficiently unique" information, but if you are neither obviously plagiarizing, nor obviously "lowballing" (that is, trying to calculate to the jot-and-tiddle level exactly how many characters of text you need to get a listing, and providing not one comma more), nor obviously "affiliate banner mine salting" (that is, providing a minim of text just to have something to wrap around the advertising) then the editors are generally fairly liberal in interpreting the "unique content" rule.

hutcheson, thank you for your comments.

This sounds reasonable.

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