I'm not sure if you know how pinterest works, but basically its an online noticeboard, you can have sub-boards for different things, and to these you can "pin" links to internet sites and photos and ideas of things you want to do/places you want to visit/receipes you want to try etc.
The owner of the pin is the person to whom's blog it originates, so when you "pin" them you are basically borrowing their image and/or idea. Most people are happy to let you "pin" their items but some get very protective and request that they are removed (ive had this happen a few times).
Anyway, I have spent a great many hours (far too many hours) on pinterest searching for things and pinning them and making my own boards about different things. I have no problem with people re-pinning them within reason, as I said above I don't actually own the pins (well I own a few that are my own photos that I have used.) However, saying this I am protective of my boards as I have researched them and sorted them into alphabetical order and even split some boards into extra sub-boards to make finding things easier.
When you log onto pinterest on the top right it tells you a number next to your name, and this relates to how many of your pins have been re-pinned and by whom. Yesterday I went onto it and the number was 346! YOU WHAT?!? How did that happen? So I looked and was in total shock most of them were from the same person and they were all of 1 board. Yes this person had copied my entire board linked to my "pirate party" including my personal photo's and removed the information about where the pic had come from. Said person had also copied some from my main "party ideas" board. This really made me mad. It's not just re-pinning a few but blatently copying everything I have worked hard on finding and making.
So I made my own pin and have given it it's own folder called "please read". The pin I made is this.
It reads:
Rather than just re-pinning from the board click on the image and see where it takes you - hopefully it takes you to the original image and you can pin it from there, yes its about 30seconds longer but your still getting the pin you want without upsetting other pinners by copying their boards. I try to do this as much as I can, and I try not to copy/re-pin more than 5 pins directly off someone elses board.
And yes I did block the person that copied all of my board!!!
Rant over, have a great day and happy pinning!
