“Excerpting is more polite...”
Is that like saying blogpimping is a good thing?
Pinging the expert.
Well.. here’s that Jim Thompson guy expressing an opinion on it:
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.”
I don't have blog, nor do I have an affiliation or financial interest in the articles I post on FR.
But I do believe that authors whose work I share on FR - because I think they have something interesting to say - should be able to reap the benefits of their work by having FR traffic directed to the site where their work was originally posted, as some of those authors are compensated by how much traffic their articles generate.
Polite and responsible people excerpt and link.
And they don't hijack threads.