Stephen Green posts his anger with webmasters for adding links and advertisements to clipboards. I’ve noticed this annoying habit lately as well.

What happens is, you copy text from, say, a Politico article for a blockquote. Here’s the original text:

The Obama administration isn’t publicly celebrating a nuclear fuel swap deal announced Monday in Tehran by the leaders of Iran, Turkey and Brazil.

“Given Iran’s repeated failure to live up to its own commitments, and the need to address fundamental issues related to Iran’s nuclear program, the United States and international community continue to have serious concerns,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statement.

But when you copy-paste the text for a blockquote, this is what you get:

The Obama administration isn’t publicly celebrating a nuclear fuel swap deal announced Monday in Tehran by the leaders of Iran, Turkey and Brazil.

“Given Iran’s repeated failure to live up to its own commitments, and the need to address fundamental issues related to Iran’s nuclear program, the United States and international community continue to have serious concerns,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statement.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37367.html#ixzz0oECteKJ0

The website automatically adds a link and the “read more” command to your paste. Because apparently you’re too stupid to add a link to your own text.

It’s a pain in the ass and makes me, and other bloggers, search for the story elsewhere to avoid having to delete unnecessary and un-highlighted text for each blockquote. And then blog links and traffic go elsewhere. Please, I beg you webmasters, stop.