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Dear Adina,
We seem to be miscommunicating here. I have not been criticizing you at all. I have been trying to explain the posting rules and what readers here expect from people who post their own articles because I believe that your articles are very valuable and I want you to stay. So I will try again.
Free Republic is a self supported site. There is NO advertising of any kind and we only exist on donations. We are in the top ten of Conservative sites on the web. There are thousands of us from all over the world including Israel. As someone who has relatives in Israel and a telephone friend in Norway, I certainly understand your problem with the time difference, but that is not the problem here. We post at all hours of the day and night 24/7. When you post, the post shows up here immediately.
When you first sign on, there is a waiting period so the moderators can check to see if you are an authentic poster or a left winger or disruptor. Your posts are delayed, but they are coming through.
Now here is where it gets tricky. MANY bloggers know that Free Republic is widely read and if they want their blogs seen, they post a small portion of their own articles here to try and drive traffic to their own sites. They never respond to questions or debate the issues. We call them hit and run posters. They do not donate here and the great thing about us is that you can post all you want. Donations are not mandatory. BLOG POSTS do not have to be excerpted and many posters here get angry at the hit and run posters because it’s like stealing to post here and never once respond. Most of us will not go to their blogs if they do this. They don’t last long. When you post an article that is exclusively your own, post the entire article and let people see that you are not just trying to use us to generate hits for your blog and using us for free advertising. Most of the posters here consider that dishonest.
Post full articles and you will be widely respected and people WILL go to your blog for other information.
As for the embedded links. Yes. They do work on your blog, but they don’t work when you post here unless you format them as I did to show you. A lot of people will not click links to blogs they don’t know, but oddly enough, they will check out links within a posted article if the subject interests them and the links are ‘hot’.
The poster, humblegunner, is who we affectionately call the blog overlord. He has an entire crew which often includes me, that will not put up with bloggers stealing our bandwidth that WE pay for to generate hits or traffic to their own sites. They post a couple of lines from their blog and leave. It doesn’t turn out well for them.
Post your articles as fully as you can, and if they are extra long, just say so. People will understand. Be friendly. You don’t have to respond to every post, but DO at least respond to some. Most people understand that you can’t spend hours and hours responding. I often get so many pings it is almost impossible to respond to all of them. They get it. No big deal.
I love your site and check in there fairly often. I was so glad to see that you had signed up. Please don’t get frustrated and leave because most of us are very interested in the same topics you are.
Stick around and you will find that you have a kind of surrogate family here.
I wish you very well.
Mesta

Thanks for your detailed response.

I have yet to “navigate” the ins and outs of this site, and this is also causing me a delay in response time. It is only after several hrs that I came across this response from you, even though I have been reading other postings throughout the morning!In this regard, which button link is KEY to finding all my messages from posters?

Yes, I do understand the need to ferret out “hit and run” posters. I am also sure, as you check out my work further, this is certainly not the case here. Not only that, but I have been offered to become part of other sites for compensation, but refused, simply to be able to post my own op-eds and commentaries free of any restraints.

The fact that I have developed worldwide sources of my own, likely makes my independence that much easier. In any case, not sure if you saw this, but it may interest you -http://www.inquisitr.com/1009405/the-muslim-brotherhoods-quest-for-global-dominance-an-interview-with-adina-kutnicki/

Now, a question: I am interested in being able to post pressing blog commentaries once a day. How does this work? It appears that even though 24 hrs has passed, I am still unable to post a new one. Also, I am confused about your html reference. I know my links are easily opened from my blog. Exactly, what do I need to do differently here?

Happy holiday!