[Pan_Yan]

If it wants to be merely a place for conservatives to come and engage in useless debate, then by all means, we should allow the disruptive trolls to stay and frustrate Freepers.

Now to be fair to trolls everywhere, there are hundreds of FReepers who ride around on their high horses looking for an arguement on their pet subject, or any subject for that matter. If you're getting frustrated either read something else or go outside for a while.

No one is being dragged to the computer and forced at gun point to debate anything here (though there are rumors some of them are paid to).

[fr_freak]

No one is being dragged to the computer and forced at gun point to debate anything here (though there are rumors some of them are paid to).

True enough, but the point is not whether people get their proper level of enjoyment out of FreeRepublic. I look to FreeRepublic as a possible conservative force in this country, and I think a fair number of Freepers do the same. So, if we allow trolls to go about posting their BS on here, does that not diminish us as a conservative force? And if we do take the time to dispute them, does that not take time away from constructive things Freepers could actually be doing rather than discussing? If all you want this site to be is a chat room, then certainly you can choose to debate or not debate whomever. However, we need to decide if we want this site to be more than that.

[LibertyRocks]

“No one is being dragged to the computer and forced at gun point to debate anything here (though there are rumors some of them are paid to).”

Just wanted to point out that especially during the “Amnesty” debate there WERE people paid by the White House to argue their points. Bush even admitted to it...