What is up with FPN?

[fountainpenkid]

This does affect average joe members with blogs as myself. Watch_art posted:

The rule:


and watch_arts answer:



While I am not trying to drive traffic to my blog, it is convenient to just post a link to something I may have already stated in a blog post. They are also saying that links in your sig may require payment. I am not happy about that either.

How ridiculous. Really, I can imagine all the time you bloggers take to write your reviews...and to have to re-write it all (even if it is copying and pasting) is a royal pain the ass for no reason. Why shouldn't someone be able to give their blog a little kickstart???

[Maja]

How ridiculous. Really, I can imagine all the time you bloggers take to write your reviews...and to have to re-write it all (even if it is copying and pasting) is a royal pain the ass for no reason. Why shouldn't someone be able to give their blog a little kickstart???

Answer: because if the review disappears from the reviewer's blog, it disappears from the FPN site as well, and it's very annoying (think of all the stuff hosted by Photobucket et al that disappears when someone deletes images from their albums).

FPN is a very large, popular and expensive site to host and they have never charged anyone a penny to post anything there since it was launched in 2004 (the site even hosts images posted by members, something that many other pen sites do not). The Admins and Mods are all volunteers. The fact that high-volume & professional sellers who wish to continue advertising their wares now have to purchase premium accounts does not affect the vast majority of FPN members...far from it. And since I don't want to waste any more FPGeeks bandwidth on the topic, I will stop there.