No, I mean who IS she. The other day I said I thought she had some kind of protected status around here, and all h@ll broke loose. She must be someone of stature - not just for her longevity of posting here.
I really don't want you to answer my question about who she is (that is private and protected, I understand) its just that she always is in the middle of a flame war and she never gets burned.
Hey I'm always in the middle of flame wars and never get burned, either (OK, OK... almost never). I don't think Hildy is anyone that you or I would recognize, it's just that people who have been here for a long time have the best understanding of what they can and cannot do here.
FR has loyalty to the folks who stood together through the hard slog of the Clinton years, and with good reason. It's easy to join up with a majority, but a lot harder - and more meaningful - to join up with the minority we were at the time.
She's recently taken a lot of heat from mostly newbies on the Schiavo threads.
I understand her frustration and I hope she comes back.
It's not about protected status, stature, or longevity. Hildy has been around on this forum long enough to know what the posting rules are. I personally believe she walked away from FR because she didn't want to risk losing her posting privileges from FR by being goaded into a flame war by some poster who refuses to listen to opposing points of view and would rather bait her into a insulting and name calling flame war.
I like Hildy but I don't think she understands how Christians feel about this.