It was me that mentioned upthread (and some else affirmed a few posts ago) that FTG honors things shared in confidence and doesn't post things that he thinks would be killed if he did.

I'm sensing a certain lack of logic in the above posts.

First you cast aspersions on FTG's motives for not sharing everything he knows--you cast his actions as elitist FTG vs. poor masses. Really what I was primarily talking about was simple integrity--not posting things that are shared in confidence. I'm of the opinion that integrity and honesty in our dealings with each other in the FT community needs to be the bedrock of our relationships. (I know that I'm a bit of an abberation in that I also believe in being honest with the companies that I deal with; I won't lie to them either.) Furthermore, your elitist charge doesn't make sense because the deals FTG doesn't publicize because it would kill them are deals that tend to be well known among the hard workers in the FF community. So he'd actually be doing his readers a disservice by broadcasting the details if it meant being killed in a few days.

Your second comment is what really caught my attention from the standpoint of simple logic. Your second comment moves from casting aspersions on his motives from an elitist angle to doing so from a profit angle. That makes no sense. Bloggers get their income from traffic and spilling secrets drives traffic. So to imply that it might be profit motive that keeps FTG from spilling the beans is exactly counter-logical.

Finally, the idea that if there was no profit motive, there would be no decision to make means that you have not been paying any attention to this thread. A number of people on both sides of the blog fence have made an effective case for the need for some level of discretion on certain deals. Discretion is just another word for decision making, usually inferring wise decision-making.

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This thread reveals the welfare mentality of the Western world. Some posters on here feel entitled to get the latest and greatest strategies and deals even when they didn't do a stitch of work developing those deals. That entitlement mentality really stinks to those of us who put in long hours working on this. (The 1mm DL deal I mentioned in FTG interview was born out of years of hard work selling online. I then stayed up all night executing it.) No one is entitled to swoop in and take our work. I've found that a large percentage of the best minds are remarkably generous if a newbie comes along and demonstrates that they've been working hard and discovering stuff. However, folks that expend the elbow grease will not cast their work into public only to see it destroyed by people who are not even grateful because they felt entitled in the first place.

We're happy to share the unkillable things we learned, even if folks are ungrateful. We know that there are lots of wonderful, grateful people out there and we want to keep serving and giving to them.

I agree with others who've said that this not primarily a blog vs. FT problem but rather an FT vs. FT problem in which we need to wisely judge that delicate balance between free sharing and long term sustainability. Both of those goals are meant in service to the community, but they do sometimes work at cross purposes.

(Just to clarify, if you're a productive, helpful member of FT, even if you haven't discovered any jumbo deals, the above is not directed at you. The above is only directed at those who feel that it's their inherent right to be let in on the jumbo deals without contributing anything.)