Doyle Wesley Walls

I hear you.  One can spend untold hours trying to police the distribution of his or her own work.  But don’t let the selfish and ignorant and mean-spirited determine what you’ll do for your own pleasure.  In the end, people with no creativity steal the product of your creativity (what else are they capable of doing?), and people with no class won’t be able to muster the energy to provide even a footnote about your accomplishment (even though they thought enough of it to want to be the “editors” who selected your work for their blogs…to make their blogs better than they were).  They want to be associated with your work; they want to be “editors” in this fashion, but they don’t want to go back to school and focus on what a footnote means.  If these people understood libraries, for example, they’d understand what a “tag” might mean for research (for pleasure!) on the net.  But to ask for that is to ask for too much.  And you say your model is attacked with “hate speech”?  Please pass along my best wishes to her.  I’m not suggesting you “take the high road.”  I’m suggesting that you keep doing what you love to do.