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.
Obama...is that you!!?!?!?!?!?
Good Tagline....
Too bad you can’t send Odhinn after him. They banned the wrong guy.
The difference is that they have to post their own stuff because it is crap and nobody else will post it. Until it quits sucking and someone else wants to post it they need to post it without an excerpt as the only reason to excerpt is to try to draw people to their site. Even then it should be posted in full unless they get so popular or become such assholes that they threaten to sue FR unless they are excerpted.
In one of Jim's quotes posted numerous time NOT by you or the few other pimp supporters he states that it is not his desire to have bloggers drive traffic from FR. Were you unable to read or understand these quotes?
That gave me deja vu. I’d blog about it but I think I already did.
A blogger can ALWAYS post a link to his own stuff. That’s a given.
What is lame is posting one sentence out of each and every thing you ever blog about.
The worst ones write 5 articles a day consisting of one or two paragraphs of anything that comes into their heads (or worse, something they cut and paste from AP) and then post a one sentence excerpt to their one paragraph blog.
Like I said, that is the worst but it does happen.
Our best in-house writers (John Huang, Jeff Head, Kristinn, et al) always have posted and continue to post entire thoughts here. That is contributing, and is admirable. Teasing, on the other hand, is lame lame lame.
So, in summary, all we are saying, is give (your entire) piece a chance. (Okay, stop groaning).
Me too.
Sorry, it took me a while, but now I get it. I “steal bandwidth” with a brief excerpt and a link, but 246 comments are economical use of bandwidth. Linking to my own website is an unforgivable sin, but making death threats is fine and dandy. Let’s all just cool down before someone takes it seriously. Relax, guys, I’m out of here.
Oh please.
Why not just post the full content?
Why not just post the full content?
Because cowards flee.
Maybe he just has to pee really bad.
I thought bloggers just threw a few towels down around their chairs and called it good.
That would be the more sophisticated ones.
It Depends....
I saw what you did there, Mr. Slim. ;-)
I nominate this thread for the “Everything you ever wanted to know about Blogpimping” wing of the FR Hall of Fame.
I think it's fine if boggers post links to their own stuff.
But, they should post their articles here in their entirety and let us decide whether we want to frequent the blog, instead of posting teasers in an attempt to get us to provide blog hits in order to read the rest of the article.
The statute of limitations has not run out on the jet-lag excuse yet.
But, they should post their articles here in their entirety and let us decide whether we want to frequent the blog, instead of posting teasers in an attempt to get us to provide blog hits in order to read the rest of the article.
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Well said.
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