You are correct that I cast his actions as “elitist FTG vs. poor masses.” He frequently attempts to get “the masses” to his site for cc referrals by speaking to the media as recently as the huffpo article, not to mention a national news segment viewed by “4-5 million.” Sure, he can say that those people only stuck around for a couple days and then the traffic returned to normal, but then where is the motive to get the information to the masses if they are never really going to participate? To drive traffic and increase cc referrals, even if for only a couple days, and then it’s on to the next media opportunity.

I believe you missed my point about profit motive. The fact is, is that he needs to make a decision as to where his profit is coming from. The deal he has that is a secret is one form of profit (exploiting that deal repeatedly over time, profiting slowly) and exposing the secret to drive traffic to his site is another form of profit. A decision needs to be made by him to determine whether or not the traffic will profit more, or the deal over time will profit more, taking into account future secret deals he would be left out of for exploiting confidences. This is a decision only a blogger with cc referrals needs to make. If someone with the secret deal has no blog, then there is nothing to decide (other than whether to quietly share the secret deal with others, which has no profit motive behind it). FTG has decided to not post the secret and break confidences, so the media driven traffic begins to look appealing.

Finally, the manor in which you have dissected my words is the exact reason why some people with low post counts choose to post infrequently. Instead of asking for clarification, you assumed I meant that he was choosing to withhold information, and that lead to him profiting. You saw a weakness, and you attempted to exploit it. Not very welcoming.