Oh, wait ..... You ~NEVER~ comment on any threads other than you own, do you?
You only show up to pimp you blog and then skeedaddle.
If it wasn't for the chance to hawk you wares, we'd never know you existed, now would we?
Shibumi, you wrote this: “Oh, wait ..... You ~NEVER~ comment on any threads other than you own, do you? You only show up to pimp you blog and then skeedaddle.”
Click here, at item 23, for a fairly recent example of something else I’ve commented on Free Republic: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2723058/posts
That’s factual proof that the word “NEVER” is wrong.
On the other hand, it is true that I read much more than I comment, and it is true that I don’t post often on other people’s articles. However, when I think I have something to say that I don’t see being said by somebody else, I post a comment. That’s not just Free Republic — I think it would be a fair statement that I rarely post comments on articles on most news sites I read, with the exception of two local message boards in Pulaski County, though I read a large number of news sites.
You also wrote this: “Nobody asked you to stop posting. We asked you to stop Pimping. How does asking you for you to post more of your content constitute a negative response?”
Shibumi, as I’m sure you know, posting the lead paragraphs for articles with a link to the full article is the standard practice in the news media. That’s what most people want. Why post a thousand-word article when it’s easier to put up the key paragraphs for readers to decide whether to click to read the full text? I’m listening to what you and others are saying, and I’m willing to consider doing something different, but what you’re requesting isn’t something most “news aggregators” would even allow, let alone request.
However, I take an accusation of “pimping” as an accusation of bad motives. Certainly it’s not a positive statement. As I’ve said already, if people don’t want me here, I don’t want to be where I am not wanted, and that’s true even if a significant minority object. I have zero desire to create a controversy on Free Republic, and my primary concern is local readers, not traffic from Free Republic. It’s a minor source of readers, and if it became a major source of readers, I would have a problem. I run a local business, and I need to be able to honestly tell my local advertisers that most of my readers are from the local area around Fort Leonard Wood.