The thing is, he is still getting what he wants. The thread gets his blog in front of people, and people are visiting it.
Stop keeping anything in the posts that even hints at his site and he’ll stop.
I have no problem with people providing a link to their blogs if they include THE WHOLE DAMN BLOG ENTRY and encourage us to see what else they’ve written.
What I absolutely hate is people posting one paragraph of an article with a link to their blog sending me out of FR.
You own the copyright? Post your articles here. Otherwise you’re just using this site to generate web traffic and that’s not what this website is all about.