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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

Repeatedly, FR moderators have moved TOP postings related to current NEWS and calls for conservative ACTIVISM from the News and Activism section, over to "blogger's and personal" which has no traffic by comparison.

I fully understand Jim Robinson's original purpose in launching FR, to provide a community in which conservatives could get TRUTH not available in the MSM, information not available in the MSM and access to fellow conservatives so that we could work together towards a conservative agenda.

Yet time after time, FR moderators bury this information over in "blogger's and personal" and kill story after story, vital to the conservative movement.

Why?

Without a change in this policy, I am through posting to FR. The moderators on FR have less sense than the moderators on DU, where they at least work to bury the opposition, instead of themselves.

What gives? Anyone understand this self-defeating policy?


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; Free Republic Policy/Q&A; History; Society; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: blogpimpwhiner; censorship; csz; czj; faq; feralmidget; ibtz; liberaltendencies; msm; opus; opusgraded; postingrules; whineyopus
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To: 50mm

Old Sarge...haha...I was just telling another poster that I sent an inflammatory post your way when I was a newbie...wrong poster; I still shiver at the result.


361 posted on 01/28/2009 2:24:48 PM PST by bronxboy
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To: bronxboy
We need to find some trolls so we can bring out the viking kitties too!

Some VK are already watching, patiently.

362 posted on 01/28/2009 2:25:20 PM PST by 50mm (Kitties are restless.)
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To: bronxboy
Old Sarge...haha...I was just telling another poster that I sent an inflammatory post your way when I was a newbie...wrong poster; I still shiver at the result.

I can imagine the response.

363 posted on 01/28/2009 2:27:53 PM PST by 50mm (Kitties are restless.)
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To: Constitution Day

just about coughed up a lung on my keyboard reading your post...


364 posted on 01/28/2009 2:28:12 PM PST by jurroppi1
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To: PlainOleAmerican

Oh, yes, I am. You do not understand that if you want to dump FR, you may. I don’t care. Just go.

Marvin K. Mooney


365 posted on 01/28/2009 2:28:23 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: bronxboy

Actually, I’m not so sure Bronx.

I just about log out when another idiot drops in to comment without first reading what to comment about... The reading attention and comprehension level on this site is seriously lacking.

In the past, I have noticed this trend on this site. People read half of a column title and tear off into a tirade before taking a moment to figure out what they are talking about.

Quite frankly, I am technology challenged. But too many on this thread are simply mentally challenged... I have had all I can take for today. If this thread represents conservatives, no wonder the conservative movement is dead.

Sorry! But I’ve had enough....


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

Sorry, don’t even know the lingo Bronx... That’s what I mean, I don’t blog. I don’t think I should either, after today.


367 posted on 01/28/2009 2:30:50 PM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: PlainOleAmerican

There really is not lingo if you mean freep mail...hit private reply on the post and then send. as for viking kitties these are cat pictures like vikiings. must go will check back later...


368 posted on 01/28/2009 2:37:28 PM PST by bronxboy
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To: PlainOleAmerican; mnehrling
A parting gift for you...



369 posted on 01/28/2009 2:43:43 PM PST by GQuagmire
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To: KC Burke
"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."

Don't kid yourself, this place gets picked over with a fine tooth comb.

370 posted on 01/28/2009 2:45:33 PM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: PlainOleAmerican; mnehrling

mnehrling may be a bit grumpy at times, but he is not a fool, and for you to try to turn the tide in your favor, you’d do well to use that word sparingly.


371 posted on 01/28/2009 2:48:07 PM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: PlainOleAmerican
I did not compare FR moderators to DU. DU moderators would never silence a leftist massage, no matter where it came from... LOL

Good Lord. A declarative assertion that contradicts itself. You are a master.

372 posted on 01/28/2009 2:48:16 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Careful now, you are dealing with a master here. He’s coined two entries for the freeper accidental lexicon on a single thread - ‘scotched earth’ and now ‘leftist massage’ - maybe we should promote his columns to News.


373 posted on 01/28/2009 2:57:19 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy
...the freeper accidental lexicon

A volume of legendary lore that keeps on thrilling.

374 posted on 01/28/2009 3:05:40 PM PST by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: editor-surveyor
I don't doubt the picking over but there was a frantic bomb disposal unit flavor to the old days that seems missing now and my general point is made regardless of my less than perfect account of the circumstances: We can't expect to exceed them in viewer impressions, to use the media term.
375 posted on 01/28/2009 3:09:38 PM PST by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: PlainOleAmerican
This has been a complaint of mine for awhile.

I have thoughtfully and carefully researched things that I have put on my blog and cross-posted here, only to have it sent to the "Bloggers & Personal" ghetto where it languished unnoticed. At the same time, someone else has put a vanity thread complaining about something Shepard Smith said a few minutes ago, and the mods let it stay in "News/Activism," garnering thousands of hits and 200+ responses.

I have FReepmailed the Mods about it and gotten no responses. It's one of the reasons why after TEN years as a registered Freeper, I spend most of my online time on Patterico's Pontifications and Michelle Malkin.com. Even though I can't post, at least I know my comments will be read there (and I don't have to type out my own HTML tags).

376 posted on 01/28/2009 3:13:23 PM PST by L.N. Smithee (Yes, I am black. No, It's NOT wonderful. No, I'm NOT proud of him. No, I DON'T want any Kool-Aid.)
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To: dirtboy

“Leftist massage” has an “Oriental spa” kind of look to it.


377 posted on 01/28/2009 3:17:28 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 50mm

Yep...even in senior moments I don’t forget.


378 posted on 01/28/2009 3:23:45 PM PST by bronxboy
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To: 50mm

Excellent news about the VK...


379 posted on 01/28/2009 3:24:14 PM PST by bronxboy
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To: dirtboy

‘leftist massage’ definitely belongs on breaking news.


380 posted on 01/28/2009 3:26:56 PM PST by bronxboy
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