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.
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