Please name names. That way I will know to ignore them as well.
Tell it!!....Brother!!!!
I don’t even have a blog.So I’m just lending an ear for you to speak to.
You should at least post a link to it in your personal about you section of Free Republic so we can read it. until now, I didn’t know you had a Blog.
I couldn’t agree with you more. The Blog Pimps should just put it into their profile or NO more than their tagline.
Can’t stand them putting two sentences up and then click to the link and there is a single stupid paragraph they think is soooo enlightening...
If a person’s blog is any good, it will get the traffic...
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One of the best vanity posts I’ve read in a long time!
Hello from Cheektowaga Bfloguy!
Hello from Cheektowaga Bfloguy!
Yeah I’ve seen them & pass by many too. But there is a forum for Bloggers, so not much you can do about it.
Maybe if you can’t beat em, join em?
One of the worst ones was the GENE LALOR guy. Posted about 5-10 times a day.
Thank you VERY much!!!!! It IS true...I’ve noticed too the pimping that’s been going on..
“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.”
That’s a LITTLE snarky, at the end there, but good point overall...I am seeing more and more spamming and self promotion, too and do not like it...if anything it makes me want to duck them and their opinions...I will not go to their blogs because of it...so, you made a good choice to pass on the self promotion...until now ;^)
Good suggestion, from another FReeper, putting your blog link on your personal page...
Good rant. Those guys tick me off, too.
All social sites like this is determined by the community and what the community determines to be the type of content they want. As the media becomes more and more Web 3.0 focused, you’ll see a move away from traditional sources and towards user generated content. The community here will determine by support or ignoring, what it wants for content. Embrace the evolution.
I really don’t mind the posters who want to promote their blogs if they post in the correct place and give a decent idea of what they blog about.
I do not hunt Blogs. I come on FR.com for articles and links to articles, and comments about the same.
I do not know much about many Blogs, I only know what I like.
I set up a couple myself a few years ago, but I have little time to do any serious Blogging myself.
If the mods and the bosses out here do not mind, then I can't understand why others should care about who is promoting personal Blogs.
If you don’t like to read blogs, don’t check out the bloggers/personal section.
However, if they are violating FR ettiquitte and posting blog stuff in the news section, then fire both barrels, notifiy the mods and shame them back into the blogger section.
here here
When I check the URL, then check the poster’s history AND ALL of his postings lead you to his web site, I’ll occasionally say something