I often don’t realize it’a a blog, if the information is interesting, that’s what matters. I always look to primary sources if I have any doubt.
You’re what Bill O’Reilly would call “a stand-up guy”. But we won’t hold that against you ;-)
I’d never heard of “blog pimps” except on FR, where they seem to be a bigger deal than elsewhere.
In other places, it only comes up if someone is really an abusive poster, basically, spamming a site with links to his own stuff.
That is not how “blogpimps” seem to be defined here. Anyone who posts to his own stuff, no matter how well within normal FR guidelines, get jumped on by a group of freepers who act as though the rest of us can’t decide for ourselves whether we’d like to read the article at the link or not.
I have no issue with jumping on abusive posters, but unless it reaches the level of spamming FR, I’d rather let the “marketplace of ideas” determine what threads “make it” on FR, not some arbitrary bright-line rule on WHO posted the thread.