[Responsibility2nd]

How important is it to properly post an article? Think of you many times you've seen duplicate articles posted. Often within the same hour. Which has more replies? Which is the better thread? Answer: The one that has the decent excerpt and enough details that make it worth looking at.

[Responsibility2nd]

OK, so I posted my rantity vanity. But I toned it down some.

lol

[cripplecreek]

Huh?

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Also, if it is your own article, don’t excerpt it. :-)

[subterfuge]

I’ve congratulated many a FReeper for lousy excerpts and wished them luck with their 12 post thread.

I normally just move on if they insist I click the link, anymore.

[DannyTN]

There are way too many words in this thread.

[mikrofon]

Wow, you mean that I can post more than ten

[evets]

[youngidiot]

Visit my blog for more information.......

[beebuster2000]

thanks, but i only look at the threads with pictures

[Larry Lucido]

Well, this is what I thi....

(Excerpted. Read more vacuous musings at myoverrratedblog.com)

[NEMDF]

Might I also add.... if what you are posting is a link to a video or other site, please give some background info and outline the topic/story a bit. Many cannot look at videos at all times. Thank you!

[humblegunner]

Addendum:

Excerpting your own blog in order to get blog hits will bring you grief.

A lot of grief.

Professionally coordinated and endless grief.

Grief of Biblical proportions.

Yeah, it’ll be bad.

[Pollster1]

First, great points. Second, and along those lines, regarding the blog pimping posts:<{> (1) If there isn't enough content for me to tell whether your blog is well written and makes good points, I will not follow the link. My suggestion is that you post about half or even 2/3 of the blog article.

(2) [Mainly for those who whine about any link to the poster's blog . . . ] I don't mind giving the "blog hit" if the poster has proven that he earned the hit. If we like an article, even if the whole thing is posted, we should follow the link and give the writer the hits. I don't follow ad links, because I don't want anything that's for sale, but I'm willing to give the blog hits, and I think that's fair.

[svcw]

Really?

[Political Junkie Too]

Yes.

[therightliveswithus]

Less than 8?

[EBH]

Give me 300 words or Give me death!

300 words are great to start a good discussion. Those 300 words don't have to be from the top of the article, they can be 300 words you found interesting from the article.

Of course excepting all the uhs, buts, and ands from an 0bama speech won't give you 300 words.

[Dead Corpse]

Really?

[FourPeas]

It is possible to post more than ten words on

[Will88]

Rather than putting the emphasis on how much is or isn’t excerpted, the initiator of a thread can help the readers even more by using Comment #1 to summarize what they think is important about the story they have linked.

Two of the most irritating posting habits around FR:

1. Links to articles with no description of what is contained in the article.

2. Even worse, links to videos with no description of the subject matter and value of the video. You can’t scan a video. I almost never follow video links unless there is some description of what is in the video.

Those two can be included in either the heading to a thread or in comments of a thread.