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Could someone explain how the original content source is kept?

Seeing that you cannot link to a page but must hot-link to the image then I am failing to see how the source is kept.

For example, here is a regular pin for http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/on-the-street-somewher..., http://pinterest.com/pin/189151253069642005/. The content is shown as coming from thesartorialist.com

Now trying with pinwords.com, I must upload the direct image (which makes sense, how else would it work to mark up the image) which results as http://pinterest.com/pin/189151253069642015/ The content is shown as coming from thesartorialist.com The content is shown as coming from pinwords.com. Though going into the original pin at pinwords there is no mention of thesartorialist.com in site.

I understand these are how previous bookmarklets have worked for other apps, yet I hate this so much. Not only does it make easier for users to mark up content they may or may not own, it makes it harder for Pinterest to remain mostly true about keeping content creators (the ones who actually produce the content) copyright concerns in mind.



You can upload by clicking the "web" button or using the bookmarklet. The source should be kept in the resulting page.


That is indeed what I did, there is no source shown here http://www.pinwords.com/pins/e68d21f0720b11e1aaccfd54b73b70c.... Try it http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/on-the-street-somewher...

> The page at www.pinwords.com says: Not a valid image.

Which to me, means it's either not able to scan the page for images or only accepts direct links to images.


You're right. That's a bug! I'll fix that tonight. Thanks.




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