Thank your reading my post rather than a knee jerk response to what you thought I was going to write.
This may surprise you, but I strongly empathize with the fighting against partial postings/blog-pimping, and if I get to a thread before the more fire brand style blog-police, I’ll try to handle the post in the way I suggest.
It is my opinion that the blog-police have moved way beyond simply attacking the blogger into attacking other members on FR. Just my opinion, nothing special... but I’m free to express that opinion just like the blog-police are free to express theirs.
The situation can be handled in a way that is less hostile to other FR members, less disruptive to the on-topic discussion on FR and less likely to escalate.
From the same post you quote: “While not everyone agrees with what they do, we actually saw some value in keeping the leash a little longer for them.”
I’m not disagreeing with the need for blog-police, I’m simply stating my they are off the leash. I’m not new to FR, I’ve been posting for a very long time. The blog-police have moved beyond simply causing a small skirmish at the start of a thread into dominating the thread.
“I’m not disagreeing with the need for blog-police,”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3079232/posts?page=20#20
You post every few months. Your history is easy to check. You've also tangled with humblegunner before.
The blog pimp policy is what it is. Blog pimps use FR's resources to benefit themselves with hits. FR is not a free advertising site for blogs.
Again, do you need to hear it from the site owner?
Here I would disagree and would like to reemphasize the main point the admin was making 2 years ago: the blog police's antics are really only a disruption to true blog pimps and their allies.
I honestly don't understand how such posts could be offensive or disruptive to anyone who isn't trying to pimp a blog.
Don't you think the picture of the blog pimp posted upthread is funny? Haha
In all seriousness, it's not something to be concerned about. Take a deep breath and think about it for a second: do blog police really impede genuine people who really want to help FR in particular or the conservative cause in general? Or do they only tick off the pimps?
It's the latter of course. And any blogger who simply posts in the Blogger forum (until given permission to do otherwise) and simply posts the entire content of their blog post here is not nor should be tortured as a blog pimp.
One thing I've never seen from any blog cop is torturing someone who plays by those simple rules. If/when I do, I'll be one of the first to be on their case, trust me. Because we can all see the need to ween ourselves off the MSM teat.