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JIM ROBINSON WROTE:

Believe it or not, once upon a time vanities were frowned upon by our participants. FR’s original format was established to not only fight for liberty and against government abuse/corruption, etc, but to criticize the liberally biased mainstream media. Therefore our original format was to post from valid NEWS sources and government reports, etc, and to tear them down where deserved. Vanity posters were shunned (unless they were very good).

Then a few years ago the blogger craze started. At first, most of them were treated simply as vanities and were pulled or zotted on sight. Eventually some were accepted as valid material on FR. And soon the blogger wars commenced. To allow blogs or not to allow blogs was the question. Can’t go blanket either way. Like it or not, some blogs are better than most others.

So, long story short, we created a special forum for blog posts. This was in lieu of simply deleting all blog posts. The theory was that as long as they were posted in the bloggers forum, those who didn’t wish to read them could simply click on the “news” forum and they wouldn’t see them. But, of course, as some blogs are definitely better than most others and some are much better than your typical mainstream news sources, we soon allowed certain blogs to be posted regularly to the news section.

This all worked more or less to a certain degree without too much friction until the non-commenting, short-excerpting, long-complaining blog pimp was born.

I have no complaint if a good conservative blogger posts his own material to FR, not as an excerpt to drive hits and discussion back to his blog, but rather to impart useful information to OUR readers and to promote and join in on the discussion and conservative activism HERE on FR.

If a blogger can’t or refuses do that, and if he constantly complains or fights with our participants over it, then I’d just as soon he doesn’t post here. It’s not my job to make his content or his presentation or cooperation acceptable to our readers. That’s his job. And if he cannot do it or refuses to do it and continues posting brief excerpts only and obviously attempting to draw away our participants while loudly complaining about it, then I have no sympathy for his complaints and the more apt I am to ban his account and blog.

Furthermore, I’m not big on “rules.” You won’t see me posting rules for bloggers. The rules for bloggers on FR are the same as the rules for everyone else. If you are a good conservative activist and are willing to work with US on OUR goals and causes and not against US, then you’re welcome to post to FR. But unless we say otherwise your blog material should be posted to our bloggers forum and it would be best if you do not excerpt your own material and if you would actually join in on the discussion here on FR. We’re not really that interested in driving OUR traffic to YOUR blog. But if our readers see that you post useful information then they might start reading your site and that’s fine by me.

552 posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2010 5:06:19 PM by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Nuke the corrupt commie bastards to HELL!!)
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I cannot believe you zapped my posts at 91, 92 and 174.

You have obviously lost it and really shouldn’t be a Mod. I don’t know what your axe is that you are grinding but you can’t give a blogger an open and free pass to go past Go and not let us in on your reasoning.

They don’t pay for anything around and if you let one blog pimp go with your blessing you will need to let them all go and then Free Republic will cease to exist.

It will be Mod Republic and Blog Central.
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Are you out of your mind?

Here it is again:

You kidding right?

No one is trying to bait him. He’s already troll bait.

He’s blog pimping with excerpts and for the life of me I don’t get how you just defacto handed him the imprimatur to continue.

Is FR fair game for pimps now? If it is, then FR is going to be absolutely run over by these intellectual hacks who are trying to start a side business and leveraging FR as their personal “Free” resource.

We pay to keep the lights on around here and keep the place ad free and when JR asks for a little more, we don’t gripe, we pitch in.

It is unfair and should be unacceptable for blog pimps to post unless they are going to post the entire content of their thoughts.

If their writing is good enough then people will be compelled to read their site.

If it’s not, well then that should be a sign their writing isn’t very interesting and won’t hold up in the market place.

Free Republic is not an investor in blog pimps and I ask you to reconsider your stance on blog pimps.

Thanks.