If you take away the links to /excerpts from other sites, what/s left? Vanities? I remember when FR did post entire articles, and it ended up costing plenty, didn’t it?
As others have noted, the Canada Free Press is popular with FReepers. If this poster chooses to post some of its articles (from various authors), what’s the problem? Love the way folks are driven away by the blog and grammar police. I have yet to be forced to click to one thread, or to click to its link. Probably each of us bypasses more threads than we ever do read.
I could have written poorly what I was trying to say. 1. Some sites require FR to link to them. That's a legal issue and we're told which sites they are. That doesn't mean, however, that we have to post a mindless excerpt. We can do our fellow freepers a favor by going into those articles and finding the key 1 or 2 paragraphs and posting those as the link, so that the person really gets the gist of the article without having to go to the link. If we just post the first few lines or the first paragraph, we normally aren't helping anyone get a real grasp of the article. 2. Some sites do NOT require a link. There is no reason to publish only an excerpt to those sites. If they wanted that, they'd notify JimRob and he'd require only a link. They probably believe they'll get more traffic become popular sources than forcing someone over to their site to finish and article. 3. Sometimes we have representatives of other sites or authors of other articles come on FR and post an article and give only a link and/or an excerpt...EVEN THOUGH the site doesn't demand ONLY a link. That is similar to someone coming into your restaurant and telling folks to go next door to a different restaurant. That's just trying to steal customers. 4. Sometimes folks post articles and never join in the commentary. Their job is to post their link on countless sites every day to generate traffic for their site. It's similar to those who post things like "I made $1000 a day just selling diet pills....check it out at dietpill.org" I was not trying to say, "Don't post links." I was trying to say, "Don't post unnecessary links without good reason, and be responsible to join in the conversation."
If you take away the links to /excerpts from other sites, what/s left?
I could have written poorly what I was trying to say.
1. Some sites require FR to link to them. That's a legal issue and we're told which sites they are. That doesn't mean, however, that we have to post a mindless excerpt. We can do our fellow freepers a favor by going into those articles and finding the key 1 or 2 paragraphs and posting those as the link, so that the person really gets the gist of the article without having to go to the link. If we just post the first few lines or the first paragraph, we normally aren't helping anyone get a real grasp of the article.
2. Some sites do NOT require a link. There is no reason to publish only an excerpt to those sites. If they wanted that, they'd notify JimRob and he'd require only a link. They probably believe they'll get more traffic becoming popular sources than forcing someone over to their site to finish an article.
3. Sometimes we have representatives of other sites or authors of other articles come on FR and post an article and give only a link and/or an excerpt...EVEN THOUGH the site doesn't demand ONLY a link. That is similar to someone coming into your restaurant and telling folks to go next door to a different restaurant. That's just trying to steal customers.
4. Sometimes folks post articles and never join in the commentary. Their job is to post their link on countless sites every day to generate traffic for their site. It's similar to those who post things like "I made $1000 a day just selling diet pills....check it out at dietpill.org"
I was not trying to say, "Don't post links." I was trying to say, "Don't post unnecessary links without good reason, and be responsible to join in the conversation."
It is Jim's web site. He has said:
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.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2636843/posts?page=552#552