It depends on the goal you’re trying to accomplish. If you’re trying to encourage private bloggers to post their entire articles here, then having you (or anyone else) post the rest of their content immediately after they post an excerpt serves the purpose. They won’t get the site hits, and we still get to read the content (and maybe if we like what we read we’ll browse to their site to see more). If their stuff is always posted in full here within moments of them posting the excerpted version, eventually they’ll give up and just post the entire articles themselves.
If on the other hand, your goal is to drive independents away by giving them a hard time and generally acting unfriendly, then reprimanding them and not bringing over their content is the way to go. And then we’re all potentially poorer because the independents will eventually stop trying to post anything here.
Well said. Exactly so.