I’m a little confused about this “blogger-hatred” - Isn’t the “Bloggers and Personal” section of the site expressly and explicitly designed for bloggers to post? Why would that bother anyone? If I see something I don’t want to read, I just keep going...
It’s in response to the perplexing post: Why do I have to tolerate bloggers?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2425880/posts
It’s only certain bloggers. They post an article with little or no information about the story and a link to their website.
It is. What burns me is the 10 word teasers that lead to :
A blog that is amateurish and poorly written
A blog that then links straight to an MSM article.
A blog, with a link and source that reads "Fox", "CNBC" or some other MSM source, but it's actually a blog link (see poster “Shellybenoit” for examples of that practice.)
You don’t know it’s in Bloggers and Personal until you open the thread. Sure, I do not give them the hit ... but they are wasting my time by my having to open the thread.
They should have to post the whole article on FR. Then let the reader decide if they want to go to their blog.
FR does not allow advertising in taglines. So FR should ban blog pimping IMO.