Since this was the bloggers and personal area I thought it was appropriate to post here. I am also used to excerpting articles on every site. It is a habit. If I can generate readers for my site here I will do so.... If what I write is of interest to people here. Those interested people will view it those not interested are free to mock it. :)
Gideonwoulfe, please see my post #16. Like every place else, there are people who let off a blast and regret it later, I hope that this applies to humblegunner. I cannot speak for him, but I too have launched posts for which I dearly desired a [retract] key a second later. This is the human condition and thus here we are. Anyhow welcome to your FR membership and hope you will be with us for a while.
It is appropriate to post here, however, the owner of this site prefers that if you're posting from a personal blog, to post the article here in its entirety as a courtesy. If it's a good read, I can pretty much guarantee you'll get lots of hits even if it is posted here without excerpting.
“If I can generate readers for my site here I will do so..”
Oh, you WILL, will you?
Perhaps the words of the owner of Free Republic would be of interest to you:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2636843/posts?page=552#552
“I have no complaint if a good conservative blogger posts his own material to FR,
not as an excerpt to drive hits and discussion back to his blog, but rather to impart
useful information to OUR readers and to promote and join in on the discussion and
conservative activism HERE on FR.
If a blogger can’t or refuses do that, and if he constantly complains or fights
with our participants over it, then I’d just as soon he doesn’t post here.
It’s not my job to make his content or his presentation or cooperation
acceptable to our readers. That’s his job. And if he cannot do it or
refuses to do it and continues posting brief excerpts only and
obviously attempting to draw away our participants while loudly
complaining about it, then I have no sympathy for his complaints
and the more apt I am to ban his account and blog.”
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Your blog may be the greatest thing since sliced bread,
but Free Republic is NOT here to be your hit farm as part
of your bloggy business model.