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osugrad21

osugrad21

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Let's make an effort to cut and paste the text from the ESPN site instead of posting a link...

The site gains hits from following the link and thereby sells more advertising...

No need to help out....
 
Heck, why don't we just extend this out to an even better conclusion, and just designate an "ESPN gopher" - the one guy who will go there and gather any pertinent info for the rest of BP? That way we don't have 1000 people checking for something to copy & paste every day. I know it's a clumsy idea, but if the point is to boycott that place to a reasonable extent, it takes some organization on our part.

I would do it, but I have a hard time pointing my cursor in that direction ever again. Not too long ago, that place used to be my homepage on IE. Now, I just can't bring myself to go back.
 
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I would like to offer a different opinion. It is common courtesy to place the link for a story you have cut and pasted. We SHOULD do this. It is the right thing to do ... period. We would expect the same treatment from others who cut and paste information from BuckeyePlanet. This may not seem like an issue for us now, but it is to a small degree and will become much moreso in the future. WE are the final arbitors of our actions. Our actions speak to who we are and what we stand for. I would hope that we always strive to maintain the highest ethical standards no matter how some two-bit hacks from ESPN behave. At the very least a link needs to be presented so that folks can verify the accuracy of posted information if need be.

That being said, I certainly would NOT ENCOURAGE anyone to follow the links to ESPN. I might even suggest that folks NOT follow the link. :biggrin:

I know the intentions here are good. We do not want to support "journalists" that seemingly can't report information in a fair and balanced manner. I simply think that we can play fairly ourselves without adding to the "hits" on ESPN web pages.
 
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I agree, we should definitely include links with what ever we copy and paste, but I think the problem we have here is the reverse. We get a ton of links, and no text. This is a problem with our ESPN boycott efforts, and for other things, it's just a pain in the ass sometimes.
 
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I simply think that we can play fairly ourselves without adding to the "hits" on ESPN web pages.
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Good points 3yds...

post the link with the text to cover us...but don't follow them.

This made its rounds already...time to place it in the ESPN forum

jlb1705 said:
I think the problem we have here is the reverse. We get a ton of links, and no text.
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That is what I was trying to get at...
 
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