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.
A blogger can ALWAYS post a link to his own stuff. That’s a given.
What is lame is posting one sentence out of each and every thing you ever blog about.
The worst ones write 5 articles a day consisting of one or two paragraphs of anything that comes into their heads (or worse, something they cut and paste from AP) and then post a one sentence excerpt to their one paragraph blog.
Like I said, that is the worst but it does happen.
Our best in-house writers (John Huang, Jeff Head, Kristinn, et al) always have posted and continue to post entire thoughts here. That is contributing, and is admirable. Teasing, on the other hand, is lame lame lame.
So, in summary, all we are saying, is give (your entire) piece a chance. (Okay, stop groaning).
Me too.
I think it's fine if boggers post links to their own stuff.
But, they should post their articles here in their entirety and let us decide whether we want to frequent the blog, instead of posting teasers in an attempt to get us to provide blog hits in order to read the rest of the article.
Bloggers can provide links to their stuff. When you create a thread, the link to the source will be right at the top of the page under the title. People can go to the link if they want.
What we just don't like is the needless excerpting of one's own personal blog. If the bloggers posts in full, people can still see the link to his blog at the top of the page and can go there if they find the blogger's stuff interesting. But the blog pimp practice of forcing people to go to the poster's blog to read the rest of the article (and to garner lots of hits and bucks for the pimp) is scummy. We were dealing with one blog pimp the other day who would post lame jokes and then excerpt them right before the punchlines. Just totally scummy.