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Perhaps you need to read official policy yourself.
It exists for a reason.
Don’t like the reason, take it up with the site owner instead of complaining to us!
It is HIGHLY annoying to go to a site and be assaulted with popups [Examiner blog] virii [Examiner blog] and have people use FR for a “Pay for site clicks” scheme.

I read your links... it doesn’t say what you say it says. It does state a strong preference not to excerpt. The name calling, confrontational enforcement and general jerk behavior by the blog-police is not endorsed anywhere in those links.

If you repeatedly find yourself assaulted by popups then perhaps you should actually look at the link before you click it. I find it highly annoying to select a topic based on the title, and find the discussion of that topic diluted by self-righteous pimp-police spamming rude remarks.

If you REALLY wanted to discourage blog-pimping, the simple answer would be to let people post the entire content in response to a blog-pimp post. That would remove any incentive to click the link, not ruin the FR conversation and result in a far less confrontational atmosphere here at FR.