Excerpting your own blog can be seen as using Free Republic as an advertising tool to generate traffic for your blog.
There are some folks around here who take a rather dim view of that.
I had the idea that although another person put a blog post of mine in a main area, that I should not. I thought that putting them in the blogger area might be legal, because of the title, so there was an attempt to be polite.
After this convo started, I tried putting in all text to the blogger category, but leaving behind the images (and indicating this). That appeared to have been put up and removed, which is fine. I am somewhat afraid to post images that are not self created, despite ‘fair use’ in a big site, because it seems this would be more likely to draw complaints.
I will try to figure out the ways of the Free Republic, but it is rather labyrinthine for this tiny and aging brain. It seems best for now to eliminate the use of images because I rarely create them de novo.
Based on time constraints, I might have to submit scoops and material in a venue that is easier to understand, but this place does seem very interesting. Every place has its own etiquette and rules, and that is to be respected.
Writing, speaking and media interviews are 100% volunteer work to convey conservatism and pro-life-ism, and there is no attempt to abuse Free Republic to make money.