We have n000000bs on the network! Go give Chris Hallquist and Natalie Reed the standard squinky-eyed inspection and poking.

He’s not writing anything on it; in fact, he doesn’t seem to be contributing anything at all. But he has created a blog that siphons off every single thing posted on Freethoughtblogs and reposts it on his personal site.

I’m generous with the content here — lots of people have asked to repost individual entries, and as long as they give full attribution, I’m fine with that. But sucking up all the content of a whole bunch of sites and dumping it to your own? Not cool. Not cool at all.

We also make this easy for people to do, because we allow full content in our RSS feed. You like that? Well, we could change it if it continues to provide an easy entry for parasites. You might want to let Peter Grant know that his efforts could induce us to tighten up what we publish on our feed. Maybe you’re one of those people who just love abbreviated RSS feeds — be sure and thank him if that’s the case!

Given the content of my site, and the wingnutty pious predilections of the American public and government, and the enmity and known censorious habits of Christians and creationists, how long do you think this place would stay up if SOPA/PIPA went into effect?

I’ve just been informed that the nominations for the Twelfth Annual Weblog Awards: The 2012 Bloggies are due tomorrow. You might want to think about FtB for the group blog award, hint, hint…and any other blogs for the other categories, too.