I know that there has always been a general dislike of people "pimping their blogs" here, but I don't recall it being adhered to with such vitriol. To me the poster's point that he isn't selling anything *is* a good defense.
An alternative would be to post all his articles here as Vanity postings. At least in old-school Freeperdom that was frowned on even more than cross-posting from your old site.
Some people have done extensive promo of their work on FR, and not seemed to have ever brought down anything near the rude anger being poured on this poster. For Instance I well remember Jeff Head publishing excerpts from his military novels here. Travis has cross posted his own essays from WRSA and other sites that are the primary publishers of them.
If one followed both the admonishment not to "blog pimp" and not to publish frequent vanities the end result is that the DIY instinct is gone. The New York Times becomes an OK and reliable source for FR readers and commentators, but our own brilliant authors do not.
This seems quite counterproductive to me, I don't think it's a good policy. It certainly is quite different from the old days, as one can tell by the many links on the sign-on screen to Freeper derived sites. Alamo Girls "Clinton hit list" being among the most famous.
Your thoughts?
Thanks for this- I appreciate the thoughtfulness and your open-mindedness. I agree with you here and with the comment you left on the blog. The best thing we all can do is think harder and share our thoughts. I replied there.. We need to resurrect the republic.