[sargon]

Thank you for your excerpt. Whether to post an article in its entirety or not is, of course, a matter of personal preference, so I don't see what all the hubbub is about.

If someone feels strongly about the issue, I suppose they are free to move on to another thread, rather than having to subject themselves to the horrible fate of visiting your blog to see the remainder of the content.

If your posting is in gross violation of the site's guidelines, then I guess it will be deleted.

If, on the other hand, your article is not deleted, then the implication to me would be that maybe you're not such a criminal after all.

Thus, believe it or not, I am not particularly alarmed by the fact that you would like to get some traffic to your blog. It's not causing me any heart palpitations. It's a free country, after all, so all the hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth by self-appointed blog police seems rather gratuitous...

[TheOldLady]

Will you listen to Jim on these issues?

Here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2636843/posts?page=552#552

Also:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2659004/posts?page=39#39

[Eaker]

it would be best if you do not excerpt your own material and if you would actually join in on the discussion here on FR. We’re not really that interested in driving OUR traffic to YOUR blog.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2636843/posts?page=552#552

[Larry Lucido]

Well, all I’ll say is, I don’t get it.

You fancy yourself a writer worth reading, a member of the so-called New Media.

You get a free soapbox.

So what do you do? You don’t share, but rather you tease and seek to get hits.

Kinda like Mark Antony saying “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your.....(excerpted, meet me at the next forum over, and be sure to visit our sponsor booths, there is a special on olive oil today, 2 cans for the price of one!).

You aren’t really a part of the community, you are a user.

[shibumi]

"It's a free country, after all, so all the hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth by self-appointed blog police seems rather gratuitous... "

No more gratuitous than the self-appointed arbiters of decorum who decide what is and is not appropriate use of the forum by posting parasites who cheaply rehash yesterday's news and crassly demand pay-per-hit revenue to view their pathetic, purloined efforts.