You just confused me.
Look, I like writing. I’ve been told I’m pretty good at it. Why should I - the copyright holder - not have the right to excerpt my own work? It’s not as if my blog makes money - I refuse to have ads at all, since they are annoying as hell, and never look at traffic. It’s simply a place I use to date stamp to establish copyright.
Yet these things are my creations. How should they be treated differently from MSM articles?
Why do you think the rights of the owner of Free Republic are less than yours?
If you want to use FR to promote your work, follow the requests set forth by the owner of FR. If you don’t want to do that, please don’t use this member-supported site to promote your blog.
Do you think folks should be paid for writing vanity threads?
It isn’t difficult to follow the guidelines as they are.
Unless you are stupid, have broken fingers, a defective mouse, or lack lackeys to push buttons for you.
Seriously, it is not hard at all to follow “Post text in full and actually DISCUSS things”.
Too many bloggers post an excerpt to pull traffic AWAY from FR for their own monetary considerations, and they do not discuss anything in the content of their blog.
Again, and in capitalized letters: WHAT IS SO HARD ABOUT POSTING FULL TEXT?
One BS artist tried telling us that he could ONLY excerpt as the forum software wouldn’t let him do anything else.
Funny thing is, to excerpt, you need to hit a box that says “Excerpt” in order to do so..
Too bad for him we know how to post articles!
I guess I WILL post the special blogger edition of the Undead Thread.
And I’ll ping the blogger whiners to it too!