[FourPeas]

You have it backwards. To the blogger, getting blog hits is more important than communicating information.

1. In Windows, opening another tab or occurrence of a browser uses memory. Closing that tab/occurrence does not free all of the memory used. Therefore, as more articles are clicked on, an increasing amount of memory is rendered unusable causing the system to run slower and eventually needing to be restarted.
2. Exposing my system to the tracking cookies, spyware, malware, etc. by going to various blogs is bad policy. I am running various pieces of software to eliminate as many of them as I can, but it's a constant battle that's unnecessary if the blogger actual intent was to communicate information.
3. Mr. Jim Robinson, himself, has said [emphasis mine]:
   
   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.

[cripplecreek]

You just seem kind of whiney to me.