As do others and they want to see their investment pay off *here*, not elsewhere.
Then please don’t click on any of the links to articles that are excerpted. All those nasty LSM sites earn money based on your hits.
P.S. Apart from the fact that the vast majority of bloggers make pennies, if anything on their site, I’m sure you realize that whatever they do make comes from something like Google Adsense or from people clicking on ads on their site.
I don’t see how this takes anything away from “support” for FR, any more than it takes “support” away from FR for me to click on Rush’s site (he makes money off his site based on hits), the American Thinker, Flopping Aces, The Looking Spoon, Powerline, Fox Nation, Drudge -— good grief, the amount of money Drudge makes off our clicks is incredible -— how in the world does the fact that someone makes money off our VOLUNTARY clicks — clicks made solely because the reader decides for hismelf to view the content — hurts FR in any way, shape or form.
If a poster is abusive or a spammer, that’s got to be stopped. Otherwise, I can decide for myself what to click on or not. And I’m all for capitalism and people making money off of content that I CHOOSE to read for FREE.
Again, I can't say it often enough that I am not talking about allowing abusive posters or spam on FR. Of course not.
But legitimate bloggers? People who may post to their own stuff, stuff that is "okay" to post if posted BY SOMEONE ELSE?
I find it rather ironic that a forum such as this absolutely depends on people creating content and putting it out there for us to read, if we so choose, FOR FREE.
Yet, some apparently begrudge people, who may work very hard as writers and New Media pundits, making money, even a few pennies, on content that we are perfectly able to read FOR FREE if we want.
So we sit around reading content that is FREE to us, regardless how much work or effort it took to produce that content and regardless of how much it cost to publish it on the internet, and have a total fit that someone who created that FREE-to-us content might make a few pennies from Google Adsense.
That seems pretty ridiculous to me.
I'm happy if people make money on their work. Especially since, in this case, someone else (Google, usually) is paying for it.
Again, I am obliged to state that I am of course not including abusive posters and spam, which can simply be handled the usual way -- by alerting the mods.