Posted on 12/14/2013 10:33:19 AM PST by The Bat Ladys Husband
First of all, let me say that I have been a lurker on FR since 2000. My wife (The Bat Lady) has been registered and a poster since the same time. I generally use FR as a news source and in years past as an info source for FR organized protests/demonstrations. I don’t generally comment on articles because I mostly agree and don’t need to preach to the choir. However one article fired me up and I finally register in August 2013.
That being said, I recently commented on an article regarding Steve Stockman running against John Cornyn. Knowing a lot about Texas politics I said Stockman was not a viable candidate. OMG! You would have thought I said I pissed on Reagan’s grave. I was called a troll, a Cornyn plant, a GOP-e (if my friends had heard that they would be laughing their asses off.) With all the name-calling I had to look to see if I was on FR or DU. Conservatives pride themselves on the quality of their debate versus liberal knee-jerk name-calling. I guess some here on FR can’t raise themselves above that level.
Sticks and Stones! But more disturbing to me is the rise what I like to call the FR-e. Those are the posters that think that because they have been on FR for a long time that they are some kind of royalty and that newcomer’ comments and insights have no validity if they do not parrot their particular perception. I was called a noob “prattling"
(prat·tle talk idly or childishly: to talk in a silly, idle, or childish way silly, idle, or childish talk)
Just because someone has recently discovered FR or recently joined after lurking they prattle? Oops, my bad, I guess they don’t prattle if they agree with the pompous long-term freeper. Maybe we could cut back on the fundraisers if we encouraged new members rather than drive them off or turned them off with vitriolic discourse and vicious name-calling
(vit·ri·ol·ic adjective - filled with the intention or desire to do evil.)
If you haven’t looked at the Home page (click Free republic at the top left of the browse page) I invite you to look again: Jim Robinson states: “Believing that the best defense is a strong offense, we (myself and those whom I'm trying to attract to FR) support...”
Jim is trying to attract people to FR. How does denigrating a new reader attract them to FR? Being a victim of a verbal knock-out game by a supercilious FR-e certainly does not encourage a "newbie" to participate or even hang around
(su·per·cil·i·ous adjective 1. behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.)
Certainly all long time members don’t fit this category but those who do know who you are (or maybe you don’t) and so do we.
Oh yeah, this is gonna go well.
LOL
Remember to (Vanity) so I can skip it.
The validity of an argument is not dependent on the duration of a poster’s freepership. Or indeed anything else about the poster.
Refute an argument if you can, but what you are describing in the inverse of the fallacy of Appeal to Authority.
Shut your pie hole!
OK—I’m all ears.
Why is Stockman not viable?
Seriously, I would like to know, as I am in DE, so TX politics are foreign to me.
Sounds like happy hour started early at the Bat Lady house...........
IB-IBTZ. You can figure that one out for yourself.
Since you’ve lurked here for thirteen years, surely you know that defending your position against Stockman as a viable candidate is preferable to posting a vanity taking on all comers?
Good luck to you. I have the feeling you’ll need it.
How about growing a thicker skin?
What is more unreasonable, someone disagreeing with your opinion or calling for all of FR to change because you can’t handle that?
I care not how long you’ve lurked.
Every election cycle.
I'll be voting for Stockman in the primary, btw.
/johnny
Many times the ones I suspect the strongest have early signup dates. I'm paranoid enough to suspect that they've gotten access to an abandoned persona or somehow managed to changed the signup date.
It's nothing that can be proven. So answer the challenge when you meet it, if you're on the level.
The heat comes with the kitchen —
pastraMI !
I’m never non-controversial
So if I disagree with someone who has been on here longer than me, I am not allowed to say anything, and shut my “pie hole”. BTW, I been here only since 2007 or 2008.
Shut up! Noob!
You are correct that many a smarmy CReeper think they know all simply because of sign up dates. Stick with it you’ll be ok!
/johnny
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