[ahimel]

If every blogger did that, we'd be in trouble. But there's not necessarily a correlation between one person doing that one time, and every blogger doing that every time.

I don't copy-paste my blog posts to the forums because, frankly, most of y'all don't care. But if I posted something that I thought people outside my regular readership would care about, I'd probably post it on the forums also.

It's a matter of discretion. If Craig follows this up by copy-pastes of every single blog post, then I'll agree it's marketing and vote that he be banned. If he follows it up with copy-pastes of only occasional posts, but in a pattern that makes it clear that he's just selecting random posts and throwing them out to a random audience, ditto. But as long as he is honestly providing value, then I think he is meeting the purpose of this forum.

And a copy-paste of the blog post is still less self-promotional than a link to the blog post.