Posted on 08/06/2009 6:41:10 PM PDT by BfloGuy
Full disclosure: I have written a blog for the last 5 or 6 years -- and (if I do say so myself) it's not bad. In all that time, though, I've never once seen fit to link to one of my posts here. That'd be tacky and not befitting the purpose of this site.
But, there are more than several Freepers who use FR continually as a vehicle for getting hits on their blogs instead of simply linking to the article they've ripped off and riffed on. It's getting tiresome and it just clogs up the works with postings that might make a decent comment instead.
This is supposed to be a site for the exchange of ideas and not a vehicle for self-promotion. I'm sorely tempted to mention a couple of them, but we all know who they are. I skip every post by each one of them.
Damn, it's annoying and thank you for entertaining my rant. Normal programming will now resume.
Yes.
I totally agree. I have lost respect for a lot of Freepers because of this.
I used to browse all of the forums, just to get a 'wider perspective' - but it turned into a massive waste of time with the never ending parade of BLOG PIMPS. (exactly what they are)
Now you can't even browse the NEWS/ACTIVISM forum without getting inundated by creationist flame-bate posts, and even more BLOG PIMP posts that deem to have 'special dispensation' from the 'powers that be' to completely ignore the posting rules regarding content and source, and the forum it belongs in.
People wonder why the freepathons have been so much less successful...need only look at the crap being posted in the major forums to figure out why.
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