[paulycy]

Apart from truly abusive posters (spam), we don’t need “rules” or “blog overlords” to protect us from links we don’t want to click on.

Then start your own forum and run it that way. In the meantime the owner of THIS forum disagrees with you and is not likely to change his mind just because you don't agree.

[fightinJAG]

I'd like to know how you view the role of the mods compared to the role of the blog overlords.

And, as far as you speaking for the owner of this site, are you referring to the excerpt of one of his posts that was posted here?

I referred to that and asked for some clarification on how posting an excerpt, as is usually done here, constitutes "obviously attempting to draw away [FR's] participants"? This seems to be what motivates the blog overlord phenomenon.

IOW, I hear what JimRob is saying and agree with it. What I don't agree with is reading that to mean that a blogger can never post a link to his own stuff.

My specific questions on that were here, at #142, if you 'd like to address them.