“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?
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.