[mhomde]

But, but, that's just how Blogs work man :)

They clearly attribute it to them (though I find it a tad lame they don't have a specific attribution area), and you could argue that being featured on a popular blog helps people discover them, and with google ranks as well. Curation does add some value and it's not like The Verge for instance doesn't create its own content.

I find sites that just repackage reddit stuff to be much much worse.

[SmellyGeekBoy]

> ...you could argue that being featured on a popular blog helps people discover them, and with google ranks as well.

I ran a semi-serious gaming blog for years and we often had our stories repackaged and linked from Kotaku, at the time the biggest gaming blog in the world. The extra traffic and SEO boost was negligible at best.