Posted on 04/30/2015 6:18:45 PM PDT by jimfr
participants have complained about someone posting their bloggs. Why is this? I am interested in understanding that view point.
Geez, FreeReign - humble needs a hobby. LOL! :)
He could try pottery classes...or brass rubbing.
LOL. ;)
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.
“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.
Also, don't forget to go here and drop a few dollars to support it.
Thank you and good day.
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
What if they post twice?
He’s a contrarian ...
...and ornery in a helpful way.
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.
Just blame the software...
“...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.
Of course. The opposite of that wasn't my point.
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