I’ll shout back and forth at another blogger if I have a beef. But I’m not going to get into denying links. Just seems childish to me. I’ve been on the other end where people cut and paste an entire post of mine on a message board or aggregating site and don’t even give BSD the courtesy of a link. One guy was copying every single post here and on other PSU blogs and reposting them on his site, and the sidebars were littered with advertising. We all kind of banded together and told him to cease and mother fuckin’ desist. Funny thing is the asshole honestly didn’t think he was doing anything wrong.

I believe in free markets. The consumers will decide. If some guy puts up garbage on his blog trolling for links he’ll get them, but eventually people will catch on to what he’s doing and I believe the market will correct itself appropriately. There are people out there who love to spend all day making fun of people and partaking in crude humor. See Deadspin. So they’ll get those people and we’ll get the more rational fans.

So I would prefer you guys follow the same protocol every time. Give a link and a short excerpt from the article encouraging the reader to click through. I don’t want people to get pissed off when their stuff is stolen and start denying links to BSD.