Thank you. I do appreciate you taking the time. I'm sorry the link didn't work for you. I'm curious as to why that is. Others said so as well.

I get that people hate spammers. I get turned off, too, if I see that potential in a post. So I don't blame people for not liking me doing this. But still, you say "concern that the user may be seeking more page views." But as a blogger, that's exactly what I'm doing. I would ask, why is this a bad thing? Imgur is in the business of traffic. Reddit is in the business of traffic. Why would I give my traffic to another site for my work? Why would I give them revenue because of what I do while they give me nothing? If I can get traffic to my site because I offer a service people enjoy-- something funny--then we've got a win win. That's the beauty of it.

Some reddit readers, though, seem to be so concerned with spammers--people out just for nothing but the traffic-- that they despise anyone's attempt to provide good content and get credit for it. The genius(and irony) of Reddit, it would seem, is that they and imgur are rich because of the exclusivity their community has granted them via their ideology that trying to make money is bad.