Posted on 06/19/2010 7:27:41 AM PDT by moneyrunner
A great deal of the internet is populated by C2PO wanna bees. If you ever watched a Star Wars movie (and who hasn’t) you know the shiny gold robot named C3PO whose purpose is “etiquette and protocol.” The internet has developed its own system of etiquette and protocol. One of these is an abhorrence of what is referred to as “link whoring” which is defined as encouraging people to click on your website. According to this protocol the internet virgin is supposed to sit demurely on the sidelines, knees tightly together, until she is spotted by a search engine like Google.
This phenomenon was one I recently experienced at one of my favorite sites, FreeRepublic.
(Excerpt) Read more at moneyrunner.blogspot.com ...
You failed to chortle that time. But the “aah” was a nice touch. Keep focused, md. You were instructed to point out where I mentioned anything about bandwidth and you failed to do so. And so you spun like a lib and tried to include me in a group that I am not a part of.
I see so then you are claiming that since blogs are not mentioned on the list that it is OK to post a blog without excertping?
I would be glad to, IF you can point out where I said YOU mentioned Bandwidth.
Your post was addressed to me, but as you now realize, I am not a part of that group.
You and your crack team did a fine job looking up all those definitions for the word faggot and faggotry. Here is a clue to find out where I mentioned anything about bandwidth.
Focus. You can do it.
If I were marketing something that comment might make sense. I'm not so it doesn't.
While you are thinking of a response tell your team to update their definitions to include the use of “Ahh”, chortling, and the royal “we”.
This is not a blog site. It is a forum. that's why I have a blog of my own.
FYI, I started blogging after getting on FR. It provides a lot of links to news that rarely gets into the paper or on TV. I used to collect newspaper clippings and literally collected boxes full. I began my blog as an electronic filing cabinet, strictly for my own use. When I saw other people reading my blog, I was flattered and decided to write some brief essays of my own. Now it’s been 6 years, half a million page views and over 6000 posts with my own little band of followers. I get lots of Google hits and every once in a while Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) will create an “Instalanche.” Maybe if I ever retire, I can write a book on the evolution of blogs. The funny thing is that the most popular thing I ever put up was an image my brother sent me of “driftwood horses.”
Regards.
She does not claim that bandwidth is or is not affected by blogpimping.
She means that the forum bandwidth should not be highjacked to further some blogpimp's delusions of gender.
The forum is not provided as a business platform for blogpimps.
I'm not terribly shocked at your lack of comprehension.
And "gender" was used on purpose.
See, this is the sort of thing that gives FR a bad name. I wonder how many Freepers want it known that this is the kind of poster who appoints himself the new sheriff in town.
A blog entry, yes. Dang, but you're slow!
There is no need to excerpt from a blog other than to get blog hits.
I typed that really slowly so that you might possibly grasp it.
Yes, blogpimping is abhorrent. It should be punishable by fines
for the first offense and caning for further episodes of pimping.
Having a blog of your own is fair enough reason. You are not FR and FR is not you. After seeing the Google sponsored Public Service ads on your Google hosted blog, I would sooner think that you might want a true site of your own. Nothing necessarily wrong with those ads, but what control do you have over what is advertised?
I agree this is not a blog site in the traditional sense, I think it is possible to have a blog of your own on Free Republic. This in turn could draw attention not only to your blog, but other issues and articles relevant to Free Republic, not to Google.
So we should reduce FR content based on rumors and wishful thinking by bloggers?
The link count is the same if full content is at FR.
Then post full content.
No. It's the PIMPING aspect that is disagreeable.
You are being intentionally obtuse and I am done with you.
You are dismissed.
OK then please post this blog without using excerpting:
http://victorhanson.com/articles/ibrahim061910.html
or this one: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/
or this one: http://www.theatlantic.com/marc-ambinder
Or this one; http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/
or this one: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=BLOGS
or this one: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/house-divided/
As you can see all are blogs and all require excerpting. So then we can derive from this that your assertion that since "Blogs" are not on the list they need not be excerpted. In fact logically it shows that it is Okey Dokey to do so. (Real hard for someone to say well Victor Hanson must be to excerpted but no one else is allowed to do so.).
That would be called a "vanity" post which IIRC is frowned on here... Hahahah yet another fumble by the Keystones!
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