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I bet it depends on the source. There is a list under help. I hate the 2 sentence posts myself.
Are you going to stand for such insolence??
/kidding
I haven’t seen any difference in excer
lobo hoggo bizarro.
Been nice knowin’ ya...
I excerpted your New York Post article because you didn’t show that you cut out the middle of the body, and I wanted FReepers to read the article as presented without wondering if you had done any other surgery.
Something like thi
(Excerpted)
Zot-a-r’hotta-matatta. Breen’gi ‘t-taun.
Articles from sources governed by the FR Excerpt or Provide Link Only Guidelines must be manually-excerpted to 50% of content, or automatically-excerpted to 300 words or less, or linked only, whichever applies.If a Mod has to excerpt an article after it has been posted (by clicking a button), the length of the excerpt is determined by the forum software.
If you cut out portions of the excerpt, perhaps you should have inserted “snip” or “....” in the gap.
I had been a lurker for years before I signed up and the Admin sometimes edits it down to just a sentence or two - this has been going on for years, it’s not something new.
IBTZ.
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This is one of the main reasons I rarely post articles anymore. That, and the thread police who apparently have nothing better to do than find duplicate posts.
I first “found out” about this yesterday, when after posting over a hundred articles I had one pulled for the first time:
the reason? I posted an entire Bloomberg article rather than an excerpt.
Okay, I thought. I’d excerpt it and post again.
And the same article got pulled again. This time? Reason stated, “Bloomberg content.” So I guess you can’t even excerpt Bloomberg content.
I would much prefer to see a “policy” link on the home page so we might have some chance of knowing what is and isn’t allowed.
I don’t want to waste my time posting to Freerepublic if it’s going to get pulled. Why bother? At some point Freerepublic is going to have to provide some guidelines where people can actually see them.
It’s not the moderators’ faults per se, but it seems that somebody somewhere is pulling an Obama and making decisions without bothering to explain the rules.