Everything I highlighted up to this point I agree with. Here, I completely disagree. I often drop links to my work in comments to other peoples stories and 99.9% of the time it is appreciated (I also often drop links to other peoples stories so maybe I'm building karma ;-) ). Out of respect for you even though I think you are wrong, I won't drop a link here but I will drop a quote: "Meaningful engagement is getting into a discussion with the piece, for the writer and the other readers to see, and enables one to broaden the base of who benefits from ones thoughts, and I have no issue linking my own stories, in context. I am not in it to shill for MPP $$ so I don't care, and frankly it’s stupid, that some consider citing ones own work in a response to be bad form. Why short change my message, and the readers thereof, with paraphrases."