If I had a store, and my competitor, Joe, sent a sandwich board advertiser into my store, and the sign read “Don’t shop here, shop at Joe’s!”, I’d think he was nuts, AS I was throwing his lackey out the door.
That’s how I view blog-pimping. They come into JimRob’s store, Free Republic, and they advertise for freepers to go over to another website instead.
Granted, some sites have their big, bad lawsuit, excerpted use only, and all that, but that doesn’t explain (1) not posting full articles when you can, and ESPECIALLY when you are connected to the website or article in some way, (2) not taking the time to intelligently select highlights of an article instead of posting a few opening lines, (3) posting a excerpt to an article that requires a sign-up once you get to the link, and (4) disappearing and not engaging the comments on your own thread that you’ve posted.
I think it’s disrespectful at best and theft at worst.
If you take away the links to /excerpts from other sites, what/s left? Vanities? I remember when FR did post entire articles, and it ended up costing plenty, didn’t it?
As others have noted, the Canada Free Press is popular with FReepers. If this poster chooses to post some of its articles (from various authors), what’s the problem? Love the way folks are driven away by the blog and grammar police. I have yet to be forced to click to one thread, or to click to its link. Probably each of us bypasses more threads than we ever do read.