There is a user in the guns forum who is routinely posting "comments" which are duplicated on his blog, with a link back to his blog, and usually soliciting comments on his blog. His blog is full of advertisements.
The Guns forum ranks among the top forums of this extremely popular web site.
It occurs to me that it could be quite profitable to take advantage of a controversial forum on a popular web site to make postings with links to your own site to gain advertising revenue.
I think such blog linking is equivalent to spam and ought to be curbed.
1. There is no clear line on when this type of behavior becomes spam.
Posting excerpts from other sites -- including one's own work -- is permitted here. But I can see that it might get to be too much.
I do not have firsthand knowledge of the situation you are describing. My suggestion is that you alert the moderators to let them know what's going on, and they'll decide if it crosses a line.
It's certainly true that most of the sites we link to have advertising on them.
But I think it's different when the person benefiting from the advertising revenue is the person posting. Especially when every post invites people back to his blog to comment there.
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