Thank you for so quickly providing the link, although I have to tell you, I don’t see the content you excerpt anywhere on that page. I did a find for both “Robinson” and “complaint” and turned up nothing. Moreover, it should come as no surprise that I would be unfamiliar with a post in an 831-post thread on “Austrian MP Ewald Stadler” as having bearing on forum guidelines or my own behavior. You must admit that’s a bit of an obscure reference.
Since I can’t find the post, I’ll respond to what you quote from it:
“And if he cannot do it or refuses to do it and continues posting brief excerpts only and obviously attempting to draw away our participants while loudly complaining about it, then I have no sympathy for his complaints and the more apt I am to ban his account and blog.”
It seems to me that I have done no loud complaining at all, although perhaps provoking such a complaint has been the intent of some of the complaints directed *at* me.
In fact, other Freepers have from time to time reposted the full content of my excerpts and I’ve said nairy a word about it—which would likewise have been my response to you had you done so in this case. I’ve posted an excerpt, feel free, therefore, rather than badgering my action to correct it with one of your own.
As I said, this meta discussion is unproductive in my view, as your bookmarking of such an obscure post on an obscure thread (which, again, I can’t find even with your help) indicates these kinds of style topics to be of more interest to you than to me. If management decides my posts are a net negative on this site, then of course it’s within their ownership rights to do as they wish (just as it is within my rights to use the fruits of my own labor as I wish).
Thanks again for the reasonableness of your exchange and sourcing your opinion. I disagree with you, but I appreciate your making the effort to support your views through persuasive argument rather than name-calling and screaming.
Well, you can’t say you haven’t been warned should you continue, right FRiend?
Here is the link to the exact post, down the page just a little within the page I sent you to. The post includes the entire history of the Bloggers forum in Jim Robinsons’s own words. (You’ll need to learn to do a little better research if you’re going to hold your own around here, I think. People are picky here.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2636843/posts?q=1&;page=501#552