Originally Posted by
calvinoeh
I personally preferred everything posted on FT when I was still somewhat of a lurker. However, I decided to go to the path on posting my TRs on my blog and linking them for a number of reasons:
Completely agree. It's hard enough to write the trip report and if we post them on individual forums, we would need to edit and format each of them again after we are done. And if we want to make a change, we need to change it on every single site.
Not to mention if they host the entire TR on FT, the contributors will be allowing FT to print or duplicate their TR contents without notification or compensation (unlikely that this will happen but still a valid reasons for them not to do so)
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Personally I haven't posted any trip reports on FT, but have done so on other forums. If I am forced to have the entire TR hosted on a forum, I wouldn't even consider posting it. Especially when FT doesn't provide photo hosting and I would have to pay for the bandwidth and hosting the photos myself.
I wonder how many of the ones here who have expressed they don't want to click another link to view the report are actually TR contributors (again, just a disclaimer, I am NOT a FT TR contributor). We should try to stand in those contributors' shoes too.
What I am against is someone who simply create a thread and post a link to their site. They should at least make an effort to write an intro and then add the link if they choose to host it on their own sites/blogs.