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.
“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.”
Since you seem to know so little about the monetization of sites, it’s rather pointless to discuss this with you further.
Click whatever you want.
It’s your life.