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Is it time to dump Free Republic?
FR | January 28, 2009 | Me

Posted on 01/28/2009 10:46:53 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican

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To: bronxboy
We could have the kitties just for the fun of zapping an opus. The OPUS just was plain boring. Grade D.
341 posted on 01/28/2009 2:12:51 PM PST by Jemian (PAM of JT ~~ If Roe v. Wade would have been 10 years earlier, Nobama would NEVER have been born)
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To: mnehrling

Stopped reading at the first line, did ya...

Good God! I accused FR moderators of killing their own agenda, and accuse DU moderators of doing just the opposite...

You went from friendly and helpful to silly and intolerant in an instant.


342 posted on 01/28/2009 2:12:56 PM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: Jemian; All

Bring on the Kitties someone...


343 posted on 01/28/2009 2:13:28 PM PST by bronxboy
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To: bronxboy

Not always, just today.... I gotta get out of here before I piss everyone off...

I may not be cut out for this blogging thing... too much time, too little return.


344 posted on 01/28/2009 2:14:07 PM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: editor-surveyor

Thanks!


345 posted on 01/28/2009 2:14:47 PM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: Just another Joe

The ultimate flame...boy that was tough...I think I did it to old sarge once (shiver).


346 posted on 01/28/2009 2:15:08 PM PST by bronxboy
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To: Just another Joe

So they say, but I have seen a HUGE difference in where the column is posted. Anyway...enough for today.


347 posted on 01/28/2009 2:17:03 PM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: bronxboy

Oh yeah, that would have done it....


348 posted on 01/28/2009 2:18:08 PM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: bronxboy

Tried that before... This was more fun...


349 posted on 01/28/2009 2:18:52 PM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: PlainOleAmerican

No, I read the first line and the rest of it, your little “LOL” doesn’t change your accusation, nor does it change your comment in the first post.

Frankly, you lost it with me, or at least you shown your true colors, when you made the comment about how other ‘news’ sites have complained to you they don’t get respect here. Well, why should they? If they want you to promote them, then you start whining like this, it shows they have poor judgment.

You really did reveal something with that comment, specifically, why did they go to you? Do you have some personal interest in these sites and this is your way of getting attention for them?


350 posted on 01/28/2009 2:18:55 PM PST by mnehring
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To: deks

Will do! Thanks!


351 posted on 01/28/2009 2:19:27 PM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: PlainOleAmerican

mneherling tried to help you look back at the posts...don’t take it personally. Blogging is fun...Also, if you step out of line, freeper mail people and apologize...you always know when you went too far.


352 posted on 01/28/2009 2:19:30 PM PST by bronxboy
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To: bronxboy; Old Sarge
Bring on the Kitties someone...

You rang?


353 posted on 01/28/2009 2:20:23 PM PST by 50mm (Kitties are restless.)
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To: Jemian

Still not up to speed, are you.... LOL


354 posted on 01/28/2009 2:21:13 PM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: 50mm

Very nice...thanks! Kitties. We need to find some trolls so we can bring out the viking kitties too!


355 posted on 01/28/2009 2:21:28 PM PST by bronxboy
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To: PlainOleAmerican

Well now I have a bone to pick...the mods are doing to good a job...no trolls and no viking kitties.


356 posted on 01/28/2009 2:22:54 PM PST by bronxboy
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To: PlainOleAmerican

One thing I didn’t comment on in my earlier post is that it is my reading that some of your frustration is in the issue of visibility, comment numbers and “views” for a thread.

We learned, when this was a smaller site, that it took activism outside the forum to move important issues forward, even when we had posted numerous threads about an issue.

We also saw that when we were a much bigger and well known site that there were still issues, that dispite repeated threads, the general conservative citizen just would not get fired up about, no matter how many threads were run about it on FR.

If the general conservative voter feels that (for example) Obama’s clouded birth citizenship is not an issue for them, ten thousand threads on Free Republic won’t make them elevate discussion about such an issue into something they will be active with their government about.

We can be individually informed by this site and then be active amongst our countrymen because of that, but we can’t assume that this is a general population indoctrination site, where just getting wide circulation will promote agreement in the country as a whole. There is already a creature that does that: ABC—CBS—NBC—NPR—NYT-WP—LAT. That creature with seven heads then has 90% of the balance of the media just parrot their positions.

We are fools to play their game. Keep in mind that in the late nineties when we were smaller and little known, probably more people in DC staff positions read items here than do now.

Finding the truth is often more powerful than finding the Podium.


357 posted on 01/28/2009 2:23:03 PM PST by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: mnehrling

You are outsmarting yourself now....

Keep going...

Let’s see just how big a hole you can dig here?


358 posted on 01/28/2009 2:23:27 PM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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I see ALL the new posts (Smoky, Blogs, Chat etc., etc.)...just use:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index


359 posted on 01/28/2009 2:23:31 PM PST by Drago
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To: PlainOleAmerican

Whatever...


360 posted on 01/28/2009 2:24:08 PM PST by mnehring
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