Perhaps it looked that way to you.
Without looking, I'd posit that these "articles" were needlessly
excerpted blog posts designed to rip off Free Republic's traffic.
Granted, some of those Pimpbuster folks get nasty or overzealous.
I have nothing to do with that.
I only called out the over zealous posts of the freeperbeaters when they were going overboard with good articles just because they happen to be from blogsNope, what I posted was true.Perhaps it looked that way to you.
Many news websites posted from dozens of times daily have many more popups, viruses etc than the majority of the blogs posted here.
Some of the freeper beaters have poor protection on their 'puters and get popups and some even get their email address stolen.
I go to the same sites and my antivirus and firewall don't even let them through.
I think it is a good idea to excerpt, a large excerpt, even from blogs.
Especially if it is a long article.