ZIP OF WEASEL ZIPPERS EMULATES CHARLES JOHNSON/LGF

I commented on a thread at Weasel Zippers and ZIP deleted it.

I was one of thew first banned at LGF, and it is an honor to be banned at WZ.

WHY THE BAN!?

I called out Zip for "impolite" linkage.

It's NOT Zip's politics I disrespect; it's how he links and gives hat-tips: basically, he swipes all the juicy stuff and gives a cursory hat-tip at the end when there's no reason left to click over.

ACE has commented on this in general: IT'S BAD FORM.

ACE VIA THE OTHER MCCAIN:

Ace has reprised that theme in a memorable pimp-slapping of Charles Johnson:

Let me talk about “swiping stories.” Johnson believes that if he throws in a lame hat-tip at the end of a post, he hasn’t “swiped a story,” because he’s given you attribution.

That’s not the case. A lame hat-tip at the end of a post covers one’s ass, I suppose, in terms of attribution, but it fails to do what a proper link is supposed to do: Throw some traffic.

Some blogs are deliberately “gateway blogs,” throwing out traffic wide and far in general furtherance of good-guy blogger boosterism. . . .

On the other hand, some blogs are very jealous and ungenerous about throwing links and traffic to “competitors.” Some blogs fancy themselves not “gateway blogs” but “destination blogs,” and attempt to set themselves up as the only blog you need to read.

Not a portal, then, but a terminus. . . .

ZIP AT WEASEL ZIPPERS LINKS LIKE CHARLES JOHNSON AND BANS LIKE CHARLES JOHNSON.

ONLY ZIP'S POLITICS ARE BETTER.

BOTH ARE STALINISTIC BAN-MONKEYS AND LINKAGE-SCUM.

NOTE: I DELETED LGF FROM MY SIDEBAR. I HAVEN'T DELETED WZ - YET...