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.
The difference is that they have to post their own stuff because it is crap and nobody else will post it. Until it quits sucking and someone else wants to post it they need to post it without an excerpt as the only reason to excerpt is to try to draw people to their site. Even then it should be posted in full unless they get so popular or become such assholes that they threaten to sue FR unless they are excerpted.
In one of Jim's quotes posted numerous time NOT by you or the few other pimp supporters he states that it is not his desire to have bloggers drive traffic from FR. Were you unable to read or understand these quotes?