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You obviously have a hangup with this guy posting articles. I've seen your negative comments about him before.

The article he posted was from Canada Free Press, not his blog.

So what's the big deal? Just curious....

Imagine the stress level of hundreds of corrupt Democrats who were absolutely SURE their misdeeds would never be investigated because a Hillary Presidency was assured.

> You obviously have a hangup with this guy posting articles. I've seen your negative comments about him before. The article he posted was from Canada Free Press, not his blog. So what's the big deal? Just curious....

Free Republic pays for server gear and internet bandwidth to promote interactive discussion of topics relevant to Conservatism and related topics of interest to the members of this forum. You can read the FR home page for details.

Someone who owns or promotes a blog elsewhere is welcome to post articles from their blog here if they are relevant. That's what the "bloggers" part of FR is for, and no one including me objects to Canada Free Press articles appearing here.

The problem comes when two things occur:

The article is severely excerpted, so that only a teaser remains, whose purpose is NOT to stimulate discussion on FR, but instead to DRIVE CLICKS TO THE BLOG. This is theft of FR's bandwidth, and numerous times, the folks who run FR have pointed out that this is not permitted.
The "person" posting the article DOES NOT contribute to the thread discussion.

The alleged "Sean_Anthony", like all members, has a page devoted to their activity on this forum.

Sean_anthony's Forum Activity Page

Take a look at that page. Go back in the history as far as you like. What do you see? NOTHING except posts of articles (severely excerpted) from ONE blog, and ZERO comments. This is counter to the rules we all attempt to play by, and it's something that people get thrown off the site for doing.

For comparison, in roughly the same time as a member of FR, I have posted 424 articles and contributed 15,970 comments as of today.

So, to answer your question "What's the big deal?":

I just thought I'd give so-called "Sean_Anthony" an opportunity to explain his (its?) unfriendly behaviour, before making a formal complaint about yet another blog bot. You know, give the guy (bot?) one last chance.

Unfortunately, no response yet. BTW, my assumption that Canada Free Press is his (its?) blog is just an assumption, but based on past experience, this is yet another case of an automatic posting mechanism from a blog to FR (and probably other interactive forums) in order to steal bandwidth and free advertising for their click-bait.

Does that answer your question?

FRegards,
Dayglored

The article he posted was from Canada Free Press, not his blog. So what's the big deal?

There's a discernible pattern to Sean_Anthony's postings that indicate he's not just an average member, or participant here.

He EXCLUSIVELY posts articles from Canada Free Press, and never leaves a comment - nor does he respond to direct communications. Ever.

His posting behavior would seem to indicate that he's using this forum to drive traffic to that website for the express purpose of generating personal income. Every click on that website triggers payments from advertisers there. Last I checked, there were eight ads on a single article.

The simple arithmetic spells out what Sean_Anthony is up to.

Oh, one other small thing.

I have supported Free Republic with donations, at first occasionally during FReepathons, and for many years now, as an automatic monthly donor.

I have no evidence that Sean_Anthony is a donor, to pay back for some of what he steals from FR, but since donors are permitted to be anonymous, I cannot say for certain that he's a complete freeloader.

But I suspect he is. And sooner or later, I or someone else will blow the whistle on him.

Nothing against Canada Free Press, you understand. Nice click-bait blog site, nothing wrong with that. My objection is to stealing FreeRepublic's resources, and giving nothing back, because that's stealing from me and all the rest of us here.