:)Posted on 01/11/2010 7:00:31 PM PST by Jihadi Du Jour
"bandwidththief; bloggymcblogger; blogpimp; blogselfpromo; blogspam; checkoutmyblog; comeseemyblog; didjareadmyblog; ihaveablog; iminteresting; listentome; lookatme; payattentiontome; pimpmyblog; readme; readmyblog; readmyramblings; trollingforhits" ? NO HARM NO FOUL NO FREEPERHATE.
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Don’t forget the Furry. Now that was funny.
Wait. What??
You missed it?
He wanted to ‘get something going’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2424695/posts
“bi-polar sex poster”
I did not click the link. I was a skeered.
fun zot thread, though.
No one forces anyone to follow a link...and at this point it is not a term of use violation to link to an article (yours or not) so there is no reason be hateful about it, right?
True...but where you you draw the line between “vanity” post and real contribution to a subject or idea?
I searched his posting history, and he had a long thread last year in I think the religion forum about being bi-polar. He wrote a book about it.
I didn’t click the link either, but I had wished he had posted his thoughts directly to the thread.
IT was a perfect example of why I dislike blog pimps — I can feel safe reading here, but I don’t like clicking links to random blogs that might get me fired.
lol! that’s great!!! now we’re talking.
>> I thought it was just me, but maybe the site mods will see that there are a lot of people who don’t think the site is well-served by [blog pimps]
Well, maybe it’s just *me*, but I have no problem with the so-called “blog pimps” PROVIDED THAT they keep their posts on the Bloggers/Personal threads. After all, that’s what it’s for. Free Republic (i.e. JimRob) decided to create that section, it’s his site, and that’s good enough for me.
There are five to ten of the bloggers that I like and that contribute something. The rest I just ignore. I find that I has the skillz to not visit stuff I don’t want to read with little effort on my part. It’s really not that hard.
I do agree somewhat with those who would like a preference option to keep from even seeing blogger threads — mainly because then the anti-blog-pimp types could be happy and shut up and go away. Whining about everything you don’t like about the format of the forum when you COULD just pull on the ol’ big boy/big girl panties and IGNORE what you don’t like wastes bandwidth, too. Not trying to piss anyone off, just pointing that out.
FRegards
Thanks Larry...I had no idea what the vanity category was about...
I write an actual column for a local paper. I tried really hard to get the paper to give me written permission to post my entire articles to this site. They were always saying they were fine with it, but I couldn’t get a formal approval, which I believe I would need to get past the administrators.
And sure enough, at some point the newspaper changed online support companies, and all my old article links are dead.
Fortunately, in almost every case I re-wrote my articles into 300-word versions, so there was little missing if you couldn’t get to the paper’s web site.
I only post my columns here when I think they would be of interest, and I follow all the comments here and respond. I never ask anybody to go through, and even though I have a blog where I used to re-post my articles with comments, I NEVER posted the blog version of the column, because I thought the paper’s version was more useful.
If I ever posted a blog entry, I’d post it in full. I don’t blog for hits, I blog to get information out.
Mostly, I make long comments on things here, where everybody can read them — rather than what seems common among some bloggers. The ones who read something here, read the comments, and then go write an inane blog about it, stealing the links they find here, and then post back to the site as if they were “original”.
ROFLMAO!
Which brings me to another point... when a thread about “call me larry” gets 252 replies, it’s pretty tough to believe arguments about how BLOGGERS need to go because they’re wasting our precious time and bandwidth...
... like we’re all addicted to Free Republic because we’re masters of personal time management. LOL!
People just don’t know how to filter, either through technical means or their own choices of what they click on.
Other than using abuse to let the mods know when blog articles showed up in news/activism, I haven’t really been vocal about the blog pimps.
However, when the subject was broached directly, I didn’t mind discussing it. It’s not really that I find the blog pimps annoying, it’s that they are so non-useful because it is ALWAYS better here if all the words are in the article, so the bloggers taking a less-useful approach, for the sole purpose of getting blog hits.
Unless someone can tell me another reason why it’s better for us to have to click through to a blog, rather than just reading the information here.
Of course, there’s a more pressing matter — a LOT of companies are blocking “social networking” web sites. It’s gotten to where I can’t really read any of the blogger entries, even if I wanted to. Posting here would be helpful.
Lastly, the market blogs are getting increasingly active, and almost always post as “news/activism”, when they are just guesswork commentary.
Plus we need to post enough of all news articles so that there is something to comment on without going to another website.
I hate it when someone posts even a NY Times article, but only posts the first paragraph, leaving out the meat of the article. Yes, I know most sources must be exerpted. But be smart about which 300 words you exerpt. There is no rule that people must exerpt the first words of an article.
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And that's all I have to say on this...
Jerry: (to Kramer) I thought you stopped talking??
Kramer: ...All right ..Starting now......
I don’t blog for hits, I blog to get information out.
Same here...I write for a particular audience and I post in appropriate forums...I'm just suprised to have these keyword rants when I'm really not bothering anyone and not doing anything against FR terms of use. Thanks for the advice... I appreciate it.
“He wrote a book about it.’
Vanity publisher, no doubt!
;)
Ha! LOL! I know I am!
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