As someone who doesn’t blog to speak of, and who certainly doesn’t post it on FR, I still have to ask:
Why don’t you just mind your own business? If you don’t like bloggers, then don’t go to the blogger section. Or if you don’t like a particular blog, then don’t click on its thread? Simply not clicking a mouse button is a lot easier than trying to whip together some half-baked crusade against bloggers who don’t meet your particular standards.
I wish the main news page would identify which forum each article is in.
It would be easier to avoid a potentially interesting (but ultimately disappointing) article if we knew that it was a blogger's article to begin with.
Right now you can't tell which forum it is in until you click on it.
You have it backwards.
iloveamerica1980 likes to posts excerpts of his blog and cause
folks to give him "hits" to read the article. Some folks object to this.
If you wrote it in your blog, you can post it in it's entirety on FR.
This garnering of "hits" is known as blog pimping.
I couldn’t agree with you more! I love bloggers and also am one myself! Again this is in response to the perplexing post: Why do I have to tolerate bloggers?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2425880/posts
Why don’t you just mind your own business? If you don’t like bloggers, then don’t go to the blogger section. Or if you don’t like a particular blog, then don’t click on its thread? Simply not clicking a mouse button is a lot easier than trying to whip together some half-baked crusade against bloggers who don’t meet your particular standards.
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There’s much more to the story. Did you see that link in post # 4?
What we have here is too many blog pimps posting in News (not bloggers). They post 5-10 words and are only here to call attention to their own blogs.
They have an agenda, and are using Free Republic as a free resource to get more google ad revenue as FReepers click on on their blogs.
These bee-yatches need to be slapped down. They’re getting worse than useless vanities.
FR does not allow advertising. Why can bloggers link to their site wherein they essentially advertising their site?