I've had to go toe-to-toe with VIRULENT jerkoffs who have a thing for what they call "blog pimps".
Check out some of "humblergunner's" choice work. You'll usually find his "crew" with him when they're ganging up on FReepers they label as "blog pimps".
Illegitimi non carborundum
We'll sometimes take a swipe at pimp enablers. too.
I think it cuts both ways. Nobody objects to links to an established and interesting blog, like Iowahawk for instance.
There is some reason to object to someone posting a useless blog, just in order to get hits and possible fans.
Clearly it’s hard to draw the line between a blog that really deserves to be linked and one that is just searching for fame. So on occasion I find myself on one side of the argument, and sometimes on the other.
At least if you post the whole thing, people can decide for themselves before they start providing hits to the blog.
Shout Bits has a well-written blog.
Shout Bits posts material on FR in its entirety.
Shout Bits has my respect as a blogger.
Blog pimps post what is usually poorly written material or they purloin pieces or videos from other authors and put them on their own blogs, sometimes passing them off as their own.
Then they needlessly excerpt their blog on FR for the sole purpose of drivng traffic to their sites to obtain blog hits.
Shout Bits is not a blog pimp.