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[ReneZ]

this topic flares up every three months on average. Frankly, I'm tired of it.

David, I do sympathise with you, and that is not meant in any way sarcastically.
This forum exists now for three years?

I have had to read for more than eight years things like "I was the first to say this", "you all don't know how to cite in a scholarly manner" and "people are stealing material from my blog".  The first two are easy enough to ignore but not so the third.

A little introspection may not be out of place here. The moderation has not been able to stop this issue. There was an ultimatum [will not be tolerated anymore]  and when that did not work there was a plea [can you please refrain...].
And now, bloggers are told by Diane they have to quote her in order not to be exposed to such accusations, which seems to meet with approval. I'm sure you did not mean it that way, but that's how it comes across.

I'm more than happy to leave this matter here. It is indeed totally boring, and there are many more interesting things going on.

To Koen: I posted my complaint vis-a-vis inconsistency based on a very concrete example where a "first mentioned here (and will soon be copied on some web site)" was a topic that could immediately be found in D'Imperio's index. Indeed, this has now gone away in the latest blog, and I applaud this recent improvement.