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Posted on 04/30/2015 6:18:45 PM PDT by jimfr

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To: FreeReign

Geez, FreeReign - humble needs a hobby. LOL! :)


21 posted on 04/30/2015 7:08:39 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: kiryandil; humblegunner
Geez, FreeReign - humble needs a hobby. LOL! :)

He could try pottery classes...or brass rubbing.

LOL. ;)

22 posted on 04/30/2015 7:21:04 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: jimfr
I manage a number for forums and have blogs in past. This involves several potential and different issues.

1. Someone posts a blog or external content and does not credit the source (no link or name). That's always a problem. I had it happen to me once here on Freerepublic many years ago. A quick mention and the moderators fixed it. Most legit sites fix these right away. This happens a lot with content aggregators, etc.

2. Someone posts the entire content. Some organizations don't allow, such as the paper in Las Vegas. Thus, we just excerpt, which is protected via Fair Use.

3. People that post their content in excerpt and lure people to their site for advertising clicks, etc. Blogvertising.

I hate No. 3 as these people are simply seeking free advertising; No. 2 can be legit if they have paid content that is not getting proper display, e.g., cheating their sponsors that pay for the content. No. 1 is simply a matter of respect.

FTC comes to play in this, though you see minimal mention here. FTC requires disclosure of paid and unpaid affiliation. Many Freepers do this by flagging posts as vanity, or such. In more commercial settings this becomes more of a challenge when people start give good/bad reviews and recommendations. In election time it should apply here as people should disclose if they are affiliated with a candidate or campaign, etc. Paid trolls that trash anyone criticizing their candidate or group, etc. With anonymous posting this is impossible to police.

23 posted on 04/30/2015 7:26:50 PM PDT by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
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To: jimfr

“Bloggers” link to their own websites which often have banners in which they are paid per click. Posting a link to their page to essentially profit from traffic generated from FR is uncouth... especially in the middle of a Freepathon.


24 posted on 04/30/2015 7:44:35 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: jimfr
I just want to take this opportunity to state that I'm always pimping my blog all over the Internet. I also want to use this here site to drive many hits to my blog. Please go here and get me more clicks.

Also, don't forget to go here and drop a few dollars to support it.

Thank you and good day.

25 posted on 04/30/2015 7:56:01 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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Because they are thiefs, who leverage FR for their blog hits.

If they post their blog in full, here on FR, no problem.

But, excerpting for the purpose of driving traffic to their website is not acceptable.

This community pays to keep the lights on.

JR and his cousin, Jim Thompson, keep the trains running on time, as well, refereeing what content is acceptable.

My dos centavos


26 posted on 04/30/2015 8:42:33 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Ingtar

What if they post twice?


27 posted on 04/30/2015 8:43:16 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: kiryandil; Billthedrill; TADSLOS; humblegunner

He’s a contrarian ...


28 posted on 04/30/2015 8:45:46 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Vendome; Billthedrill; kiryandil; humblegunner

...and ornery in a helpful way.


29 posted on 04/30/2015 8:51:19 PM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: FreeReign
Let me see if I have this right. CNN, WaPo and all the rest of the propagandists should have their stuff excerpted and bloggers shouldn't??

Let me get this straight - the places that restrict others to excerpts vs. whole stories cannot decide to let themselves "break the rule" because they are the poster?

If a blogger insists his stuff will be excerpted, it applies to others who want to share it, not to the blogger who owns the data.

30 posted on 05/01/2015 3:24:30 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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31 posted on 05/01/2015 4:27:11 AM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: Vendome

Just blame the software...


32 posted on 05/01/2015 5:37:05 AM PDT by Ingtar (Capitulation is the enemy of Liberty, or so the recent past has shown.)
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To: shibumi

“...Jim has several times since then restated and reinforced that position...”

And I think that is short sighted.

What content does FR produce? I don’t see much original content authored solely on FR. Quite the contrary, the vast majority are discussions about content from other sources. Jim doesn’t have to search the web daily to post interesting content to his site because his model uses the subscribers to do that work for him.

Understand, I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that. My question is: Without “foreign” content (full or excerpted posts) from other sources fueling the vast majority of discussion activity on FR — would FR have the same level of discussion activity? I rather doubt it.

You’d think he would not want to discourage topic-appropriate activity, excerpted or otherwise.


33 posted on 05/01/2015 5:43:48 AM PDT by jaydee770
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To: trebb
If a blogger insists his stuff will be excerpted, it applies to others who want to share it, not to the blogger who owns the data.

Of course. The opposite of that wasn't my point.

34 posted on 05/01/2015 6:56:23 AM PDT by FreeReign
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