Maybe it's only the right-wing copy-pastes that get complained about, John. Almost all of the over-length copy-pastes that get deleted are left-wing ones. In general, the complaint is not about the ideas themselves - it's about the poster's failure to express his own opinion in his own words.

When you post one copy-paste after another of stuff that's already available elsewhere on the Internet, that's obnoxious. If you copy-paste every once in a while to illustrate your point, that's not a bad idea.

If you copy-paste music information, that's usually a very good idea.

-Joe Offer-