There are guidelines.
The excerpt function is for sites that are on the excerpt only list. It can be used to excerpt crap for thoughtless blog pimps who are garbage just like thoughtless jerks who are garbage can park in the handicap space.
The requirement to do both in these cases is to be garbage.
Show me the guidelines IN the bloggers section.
My problem is you guys pick and choose who to go after and you go after them like a rabid pack of dogs on a bone.
Some of us would just like to read the article and comment HERE at FR without having to sift through your blogger jihad.