[Political Junkie Too]

Free Republic's homepage is full of links to media outlets, both left and right. Similarly, most of the Drudge Report is boilerplate links to other news sites. I, for one, rarely visit the home page as I just jump into the topics and posts page, but the links to many other sites are there.

It occurs to me that a natural response to the concern of blog "pimping" is to ask these sources to have Jim Robinson include a link to their home page on Free Republic's home page. Wouldn't that legitimize the posting of stories from blog sites? If Free Republic has links to Salon, NYT, WaPo, LAT, and the Boston Globe on his home page, why can't he add a link to Canada Free Press?

If I were in your place, I would suggest to bloggers to ask Mr. Robinson to place a link to their blog on his home page along with all the others, not just shoo them away.

What I object to is the posting of stories and then having the original poster not engage in the ensuing discussion.

-PJ

[humblegunner]

“I have no complaint if a good conservative blogger posts his own material to FR, not as an excerpt to drive hits and discussion back to his blog, but rather to impart useful information to OUR readers and to promote and join in on the discussion and conservative activism HERE on FR. If a blogger can’t or refuses do that, and if he constantly complains or fights with our participants over it, then I’d just as soon he doesn’t post here. It’s not my job to make his content or his presentation or cooperation acceptable to our readers. That’s his job. And if he cannot do it or refuses to do it and continues posting brief excerpts only and obviously attempting to draw away our participants while loudly complaining about it, then I have no sympathy for his complaints and the more apt I am to ban his account and blog.”
- Jim Robinson

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2636843/posts?page=557#552

[Grampa Dave]

What if the poster is a bot and never replies to any comments or questions and just posts.