Posted on 05/17/2011 1:30:40 PM PDT by stolinsky
Forgive me, Freepers, for I have sinned. My sins are many:
1. I linked to my own website, which is a sign of the arrogant belief that people might want to read what I write. Of course, if I didn't think that, I wouldn't write in the first place, so it's hard to see much difference.
2. I "stole bandwidth," though it's hard to see how posting a short exerpt with a link was worse than posting a long article--or how repeated insulting comments don't also "steal bandwidth."
3. I wanted people to "pay" me to be "showered with my wisdom," though my website has no advertising and costs me $299 a year to run, plus untold hours of time.
4. I used too many bullet points--or is it too few semicolons, I forget?
5. I claimed to have a graduate degree, though this couldn't be true, since I expressed myself plainly, in short paragraphs, and never used a $5 word when a two-bit word would do as well.
6. I claimed to have scars from a line-of-duty injury in the Army Reserve, though this couldn't be true either, since "people like me" usually avoid service.
7. Unlike my critics, I use my own name instead of a screen name, because I'm willing to stand up and be counted for what I say, and believe.
8. I assumed falsely that I was among friends, so any differences could be resolved amicably. Instead, I got more anger and vitriol than I ever got from liberals in the years I posted on NewsMax and on my own website. Yes, they occasionally called me "Nazi," but even the most fanatical never threatened violence or called me mentally ill--both of which are ways communists used to silence those who disagreed.
9. I assumed falsely that most conservatives are interested in saving our nation from leftists undermining it from within, and extremist Muslims attacking it from without. But instead, some are too busy squabbling among themselves about who doesn't really "fit in" with their small group--a sure recipe for defeat.
For all these sins, forgive me. My pennance will be to forgo blogging for a month. Perhaps that will be enough time for the anger to subside. Or not.
Then start your own forum and run it that way. In the meantime the owner of THIS forum disagrees with you and is not likely to change his mind just because you don't agree.
What constitutes “obviously attempting to draw away our participants”?
Almost EVERY article posted on FR has the capacity for commenting at the article site. EVERY article. But most freepers read the article, then come back here to talk about it.
How is this not also what happens with blogs? Is something preventing freepers from clicking on a link, reading the article, then coming back here to comment on it with freepers AS IS DONE ON EVERY OTHER ARTICLE?
I don’t think so. Really, when you read an article at Fox Nation, which has a huge comment community, do you not still come back here to discuss it?
Really?
I've answered this question for you already on another thread.
Are you here simply to argue or are you slow on the uptake?
So you like blogpimps. Support blogpimps. Perhaps even know a few.
How nice for you. The excerpt button perhaps is a turn-on for you.
Do you realize you are supporting folks who USE Free Republic
as a free advertising platform for their ill-conceived and
poorly written screeds? That you endorse people who steal
traffic from out beloved Free Republic in order to enrich themselves?
Blogpimps are scum, yet you support them.
I’d really hope that you are ignorant of what blogpimps
are doing and have no idea of the reality behind what you
are supporting.
Because they suck. Each and severally. They suck HARD.
They view Free Republic as a marketing tool.
You support that? I had a higher opinion of you.
Perhaps I was wrong.
What magical force would have prevented brer Steyn from posting the full content here?
Anybody who opens a thread and finds a sentence exerpt instead of a whole blog entry.
"I don’t want to click on a thread and have this huge article load before I’ve even decided FOR MYSELF if I want to read it or not."
Oh my gosh ... if you're clunking along with a computer that has trouble loading a HUGE amount of text, as in several paragraphs, I can certainly understand your upset. Bless your heart ... if you save $1/week, Sam's has some nice little notebooks and you could have one in a year or so.
"Apart from truly abusive posters (spam), we don’t need “rules” or “blog overlords” to protect us from links we don’t want to click on."
Feel free to address your concerns to the owner of the site. Apparently he likes a rule here and there.
And he doesn't seem too pissed off about Blogger Overlords either.
Yeah. Go figure.
I have no desire to stop you from anything. If somebody wants to click on a blog, it is no skin off of my nose. If a blog pimp wants to drive hits by USING the resources of FR, I have a problem with that as a supporter of this site. Last time I checked, I am allowed my opinion every bit as much as you are entitled to yours.
"If Mark Steyn came here and, using his own name, posted a link and an excerpt to a post on his blog, do youse guys mean to tell me you would say he has absolutely nothing to say, he just wants to drive hits?"
Don't know. I don't read Mark Steyn and I don't speak for "youse guys".
Spoken like a true blogpimp. Shouldn’t you have pinged your other blogpimp name to your post?
Wow.
Half ass excerpt.
LOL!
Roger dat!
I wonder if The Old Lady can sing like Joanie Jett...
Midnight, startin’ to “write”. Where are you?
You said you’d stop me, now it’s post number two
I know I’m pimpin’, I’m back and FAAAAAAAAAA-Q’.
On attack, It’s a fact I’m busted at FR.
I turn my back and there you all are.
I’m not really talented, I like lookin’ like a whore.
I try to dodge you ev’ry night and day.
AdMinn locked my thread, then he zotted my account away-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay.
I hate myself for blog pimping you.
Can’t break free from the bandwidth I do.
I wanna blog so I trick back at you, that’s why
I hate myself for blog pimping you .
Daylight, spent the night cut and paste.
But I’ve been dreamin’ ‘bout the space I can waste.
I won’t be as angry ‘bout the hell you put me through.
Hey, man, I’ll be back, anything you do.
I hate myself for blog pimping you .
Can’t break free from the bandwith I do.
I wanna blog so I trick back to you, that’s why
I hate myself for blog pimping you.
I hate myself for blog pimping you .
I hate myself for blog pimping you .
I hate myself for blog pimping you .
Most epic.
I noticed there are three basic groups on this thread.
1) Blog pimps and their supporters.
2) Pimp busters and their supporters.
3) Clueless idiots.
One group is whining like a fat kid forced to play dodgeball on the skins team, one is posting cogent responses often quoting the Jim Robinson, the owner of FR and the third is posting gibberish.
Which group are you in n00bie?
Looks like she's in the subgroup than ran away and hid.
Heh heh. Funny. I love all these blogpimp songs.... :-)
You do *NOT* want to hear me sing. Please believe me. All the dogs and half the people in the tri-state area will pop their eardrums if I try to sing. True story.
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