No one forces anyone to follow a link...and at this point it is not a term of use violation to link to an article (yours or not) so there is no reason be hateful about it, right?
I write an actual column for a local paper. I tried really hard to get the paper to give me written permission to post my entire articles to this site. They were always saying they were fine with it, but I couldn’t get a formal approval, which I believe I would need to get past the administrators.
And sure enough, at some point the newspaper changed online support companies, and all my old article links are dead.
Fortunately, in almost every case I re-wrote my articles into 300-word versions, so there was little missing if you couldn’t get to the paper’s web site.
I only post my columns here when I think they would be of interest, and I follow all the comments here and respond. I never ask anybody to go through, and even though I have a blog where I used to re-post my articles with comments, I NEVER posted the blog version of the column, because I thought the paper’s version was more useful.
If I ever posted a blog entry, I’d post it in full. I don’t blog for hits, I blog to get information out.
Mostly, I make long comments on things here, where everybody can read them — rather than what seems common among some bloggers. The ones who read something here, read the comments, and then go write an inane blog about it, stealing the links they find here, and then post back to the site as if they were “original”.