(quidnunc now at TBL)
***No surprise there. In 6 months’ time, probably half of the ABOs posting on this thread will be there as well.
... and then, six months after that: smugly contented Daily Kos diarists. ("Oh, yes... I was a member of Free Republic, back before all of those... *shudder*... conservatives were allowed in...!") ;)
And in six months time they will still be obsessing about Jim and FR....they preach a LOT about being "more tolerant than FR", however they don't really allow any "stepping out of line" such as criticism of mormonism. Talk about a virtual "stoning".
I spent a couple of days there and couldn't take it... It was really like peering into a snake pit and it was kinda like going back in time to Junior High school. I had to look in my closet for saddle shoes and a broomstick skirt, to see if there wuz any chance of gettin' in with the popular kids....;0)
What I disliked the most is there is a large number of FReepers who are still posting here, but bashing FR and especially JR there daily. FR has its faults, but there isn't one little clique running things. Too big, and too diverse and even though there is a handful trying to wrest control from Jim and run things by the use of censorship, (we've seen this for several years) they aren't succeeding.
Anyway, I'd as soon see the malcontents just move along and take their vitriol with them.