May I ask a few questions?
What is the big deal about posting stuff from blogs here? Why do we even have a category called “Bloggers and Personal” if you can’t post blog stuff here?
Am I misunderstanding the rationale for the category?
Interested in the answer bookmark
There is a thin line between posting stuff from blogs and using this site as an advertising platform for someone’s commercial blog. Unlike popular myth, we haven’t banned too many for being ‘blog pimps’ but for how they treat other members. If the community doesn’t care for only small excerpts to be posted of a blog, the author has several choices. Ignore them and realize they will still be criticized, modify how they post to meet the community’s standards, or not post their blog.
If someone, however, posts hundreds upon hundreds of excerpted links to their own blogs with little or no commentary, we could see that as trying to use the site for advertising instead of discussing the topic. We may also wonder if that is a bot automatically spamming articles and not a real person. Those cases, they may risk banning.
Another challenge is when a blogger takes another site’s content, and attempts to present it as their own. (Plagiarism) If the content is not original to the site, it should be linked to as original the source is possible.
When we get down to it, we take it on a case-by-case basis.