[Mr. Brightside]

My problem is when people post the first 40 words of an article instead of posting the meat of the article.

Example:

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BREAKING: Hillary Defames Christians

Senator Hillary Clinton while speaking to a group of Democratic activists had some unflattering statements about the people of the Christian faith... (read more at the exerpt)

[Constitution Day]

Oh, I know. Drives me bananas!

[twidle]

"My problem is when people post the first 40 words of..."

Have not been menber long, but have read that FreeRepublic has had legal problems with plagiarism.....so may be reason. Don't how much one can copy without getting into trouble with copyrights, etc. Just speculating.

[conservative in nyc]

My problem is when people post the first 40 words of an article instead of posting the meat of the article.

That's largely a feature of using auto excerpt instead of excerpting by hand. The system allows for up to a 300-word excerpt when required.