[Marco Arment](http://www.marco.org/2012/03/12/not-a-curator):
> The proper place for ethics and codes is in ensuring that a reasonable number of people go to the source instead of just reading your rehash.
> Codifying “via” links with confusing symbols is solving the wrong problem.
He’s debating against Maria Popova’s creation of the [Curator’s code](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/business/media/guidelines-proposed-for-content-aggregation-online.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all), where she suggests the following:
> The Curator’s Code will use a symbol resembling a sideways S to express that a piece of content came directly from another source, and a different figure — a curved arrowlike symbol — to signal what is commonly known as a “hat tip,” or nod to a source that inspired a further thought. The Curator’s Code supplies the appropriate symbol and then the blogger or writer simply puts in a hyperlink behind it as they normally would.
Beside hybrid articles-and-links posts, I do a third kind of post here at the Journal: a portfolio/image gallery link — like [this one](/2012/03/vitaliy-sokol/), in which three (or more) layers of attributions are enforced:
1. Present the image at the highest possible quality with the least amount of distraction, and avoid wording the post at all cost. For some gallery/portfolio which has some unique or less obvious appeal, I word them as little as possible.
2. The ‘alt’ HTML tag must be filled with the caption of the original image (when available), or a brief description of the content. (For the observant ones, I also name the files with the name of the shooter and I host them on my own server to handle the bandwidth cost.)
3. Always display the © copyright information immediately at the bottom of the image to ensure proper recognition. Include a link to the photographer’s main portfolio homepage when available.
Behind this page is an RSS publishing engine where I codify my posts accordingly (you see different post styling here). Since I post more links than original articles, only the full-length article posts are codified (¶) in the RSS, rendering links as regular posts with the link to the external page embedded directly at the title field. Hat tip to [DF](http://daringfireball.net) and [Tumblr](http://tumblr.com).
Wonderful things must be shared, and sharing such greatness is wonderful. But selflessly sharing with proper recognition and attribution to its creator is simply divine.