>> 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
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.