It’s a matter of scale and scope.
Suppose some bum cooks a hamburger and comes onto your property,
knocks on your door and slurringly begs you to buy his hamburger.
Is he a restaraunt chain? Is he on par with McDonald’s? They both made
burgers and want you to buy them.. so are they the same because of that?
No and no.
Scale and scope and brand recognition and risk.
So I’m a slurring bum now?
Why not take a look at the content of the site (both original and syndicated) and see if it deserves being described as “slurring.” See if maybe we’re trying to do something that is good.
There are websites who’ve had links posted in your news section that look amateurish (extremely so), have no name recognition at all, have absolutely no original content, and who rarely update their content but they were not even questioned.
In fact, we report first on a lot of things and have had sites whose links breeze through your forum use a syndicated-type of post of ours where they link back to US as the source. How’s that for irony?
At this point, it seems like you’re so biased against me that it doesn’t even make sense. Again, all I’m asking for is for you to look at our content and make an honest, fair decision on its quality. We are owned by an LLC, and have paid staff. We will have a story this week on a local restaurant who is part of a national chain who has done something that will, no doubt, draw the attacks of the political left. We’ll be first to break the story - and have worked very hard to ensure that. An interview will be posted, images, etc. Is that going to be treated by Freerepulic as content from a slurring bum?