I agree with your sentiment, Cboldt. Perhaps Jim Robinson, in light of his relaxing of the restrictions on posting from Alex Jones, will re-evaluate the restrictions on 8chan postings, considering what you are pointing out.
Of course, he may decide that the overall "stink" of 8chan is too much for FR to bear.
Let's ask him.
Totally understood for 8ch.net in general, but /patriotsfight/ (at 8ch.net) looks almost exactly like an aggregator site, having ONLY posts by Q, and no posts by others.
FWIW, I don't have any sentiment or preference on this, and I'm not advocating any relaxing of the "no 8ch.net URL" posting rule.
Early in my Q-following participation I figured and expressed that giving a URL without a link might pass the mustard (no link - a reader would have to affirmatively pick up the plain text to get to the URL), but was warned off that.
I'm one that for the most part is either respectful of the rules, or if the rules are too stifling for my tastes, just finds other ways to occupy my time. I don't find the "no 8ch.net URLs" stifling at all. The material gets here with a minimum of mangling.
P.S., I know it’s “pass muster”
Unfortunately, I think the problem is the links showing up on the web crawlers, enabling enemies to say see! Free Republic links to antisemitic, racist sites.