What are the rules for new sign-ups on Freerepublic?

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[big bad easter bunny]

I signed up in 1998 and posted a few minutes later, I have encouraged others to do so lately and all they are experiencing are roadblocks. What are the current rules for new sign -ups as for responding and posting? Thanks

[MrEdd]

Can that thing be set to Sporkweasel?

[No!]

I miss Heathkits...

[BassWrangler]

LOL, except my last post went straight through. I guess I am out now.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Welcome to Free Republic.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (10/10) Movie CLIP - Battling the Mutant (1996) HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZZ4xkgUBg

Great scene!

[RKBA Democrat]

There is a secret initiation ritual that involves being stuned by a beber.

[SgtHooper]

Ok....ZOT HIM!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

[big bad easter bunny]

So what you are all are saying is there there is no actual policy? We don’t have an actual standard?

[dr_lew]

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

... I just mean I’m happy for him.

[FredZarguna]

Have never seen it on MST3K. BUT I did see it in a movie theater in 1960.

[21twelve]

Of COURSE FreeRepublic has standards!!!

They are just set very low.

Which allows folks like me to post.

[TheNext]

If you post to Free Republic, rule 3.4.c.89,
states you must use big words,
such as ‘equivocal’ or ‘complicity’.

Otherwise, that is ‘deleterious’ to transcendent cohesion.

See I used a big word, ‘deleterious’, and the moderators accepted the post.

[Commentor is thinking, what the hades?]

[Anti-Bubba182]

It was a classic!

[PJammers]

The white zone is for loading or unloading only. If you have to load or...unload, do it in the white zone. ;)

[golux]

This post is a rare exception, assuming anyone ever sees it.

The trick, BassWrangler, as all old time Pyjama Patrol Officers know, is to reply to "All."

That way, All will know, for instance, that as you say, you have been on the internet since the 1980s.

There is, however, a Free Republic "back door," accessible only via the BBS.

Hint: "Kristinn" encodes the new BBS number into every fifth HUGH (series) post using a simple substitution cypher, whereupon "Lazmataz" hits it. Good luck!

[Chode]

have you thought about FRmailing Jim???

[going hot]

AHA!

There you are!

[BassWrangler]

Yes, in the late 1980s I was a grad student at Georgia Tech, and had access to email, so technicallly was on the Internet. Later, probably 1990s at that point, and after graduating, I was one of the first 100 customers of Mindspring. Internert back then was mostly “Gopher” and other archaic stuff. I also did all the BBS stuff, over dial-up modem of course.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Yikes. I missed the Zappa reference up there. I must be too sober and bored at work today again.

[Rocky]

You must memorize the ZOT procedure and take a test on it. See this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1674019/posts