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Better, if you *really* like someone else's writing, to link to it, and add your own comment. What you agree or disagree with. That allows you to start a conversation. To use the existing writing as a launch pad your *your* ideas. Ultimately, people will come to your site because of you, as a living, breathing, thinking human. Not because of someone else's ideas that are merely parked there.
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Boy do I have to disagree! The information you've characterized as 'generic' is far from it, from my experience. I devoted a good twenty-plus hours to scouring content sites for blogging articles, discarding well over half that were, indeed, generic - lacking personality, opinion and quality - and leaving good, well-reasoned and insightful opinions for this forum.
My twenty+ hours of editing gave this forum a base to start from. I did the work to scan and sort for easy access in our categories. Indeed, I borrowed the categories (with permission) from another forum because they were proven, in my view, to make it easy for a large community to navigate.
(Note: the other forum, www.NamePros.com, is a domain name forum. Most of the organization of that site translated nicely to the subjet matter of this site)
Far from "dead words", this forum was filled with up-to-date, subject-specific content relating to our needs (viewing ourselves as Members). The fact that we started with over 100,000 words of content - very keword-rich content - helped us jump-start the board. We had about 200 posts to start. Twelve days later we have over 1,100 posts...a feat that would have taken half a year without the jump start, in my opinion.
Indeed, part of my own personality is to always try NOT to "reinvent the wheel" but to assemble the available components into the best possible wheel for the application...and drive from there.
Finally, just because something is cheap and plentiful, that doesn't make it worthless. Music is cheap and plentiful, and extremely valuable. The air we breathe is omnipresent and free, and we couldn't live without it.
We all love to hear a distinct voice, a unique opinion, and we endeavor to create that via a this medium. That uniqueness is built, however, on all of the common threads that bind together in our own way, for each of us here.
Regards,
Keith