Posted on 03/26/2011 8:02:07 AM PDT by Shout Bits
I think it cuts both ways. Nobody objects to links to an established and interesting blog, like Iowahawk for instance.
There is some reason to object to someone posting a useless blog, just in order to get hits and possible fans.
Clearly it’s hard to draw the line between a blog that really deserves to be linked and one that is just searching for fame. So on occasion I find myself on one side of the argument, and sometimes on the other.
At least if you post the whole thing, people can decide for themselves before they start providing hits to the blog.
Please, before you embarrass yourself further, acquaint yourself with the excerpt list.
And you're right. Posting a single line would be serious pimping.
But if someone should post three or four paragraphs one should be able to tell if the blogger was serious, literate and providing useful information; and, of course, clicking to the blog would be a quite appropriate payment for work well done.
And, of course, if it's garbage, it's a lot better to read the three graphs on FR and know than to actually have the whole unfathomable story on FR.
I appreciate that you posted the entire thing. I think it was very well written.
Excuse me, possibly just for NPR. The entire public broadcasting behemoth has revinues in the several billions.
Is it just NPR that irritates you?
Shout Bits has a well-written blog.
Shout Bits posts material on FR in its entirety.
Shout Bits has my respect as a blogger.
Blog pimps post what is usually poorly written material or they purloin pieces or videos from other authors and put them on their own blogs, sometimes passing them off as their own.
Then they needlessly excerpt their blog on FR for the sole purpose of drivng traffic to their sites to obtain blog hits.
Shout Bits is not a blog pimp.
Here's Free Republic, spread out before you like a feast, and all you have to do is the tiniest bit of easy research to learn all you need to know, and right from the Home Page.
Of course, common sense would probably help a lot too.
Honey, we are not talking copyright laws. We are talking right and wrong, and treating friends at least as well as enemies.
But that's just something you don't seem to get.
Agreed. I think he posted the whole thing because some Freepers have suggested that that’s what bloggers should do. But a few paragraphs would be enough to tell most readers whether it was worth going to read the rest
Perhaps if I heard a friendly word, I would return one, but you came out with your nasty-guns blazing about the horrible Pimpbusters.
What did you expect? Thanks and friendship?
Sorry </sarc>, we aren't your dogs to whip.
Right and wrong? There's the requirement for that pesky "common sense" thingy again.
Of course leftists enjoy leftist viewpoints. Just like I enjoy Rush.
What they need to do before funding it publicly is to tell the NPR-niks that an independent analysis finds that the political viewpoints on NPR are not mixed. They are all to the far left. Therefore, public funding could only continue if the Fairness Doctrine is applied... Suddenly they would agree to fund their little pet privately.
Friendly word :-)
(And "pimpbusters" isn't a word I believe I used)
Dittos. Hopefully next time he does an excerpt and ignores the whining.
“Dittos. Hopefully next time he does an excerpt and ignores the whining.”
Why? Are we a community of like minded individuals who seek to stay informed or a 90% group of like minded individuals who seek to stay informed and 10% of like minded individuals who seek to increase their personal blog traffic?
But if I refer to the commie, illegal-alien, America-hating, destructive, incompetent, gey, mozlem usurper in the White Hut, I can do that without actually saying, “Obama” too.
If you’re talking about humblegunner and crew, you’re referring to us, the Pimpbusters.
Friendly word to you, too.
I think we are a community of like minded people who want to change the direction of society from the cliff to which it is heading.
If someone is simply trying to drive traffic to a useless site simply because he thinks it's going to be easy money, then you are quite right in that such a person should not be welcome.
But if you have a conservative who is doing actual work and trying to grow in influence in his community and society in general -- and Shout Bits falls into this category -- then we ought to at least try to help him a little, don't you think?
Encouraging him to excerpt rather than giving him grief about it is one very minimal way of doing it.
And Shout Bits, just curious, but do you have a link to FR on your blog? I might have missed it.
I'm missing something here. Do you a specific post from me about which you are upset?
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