Pet Free Republic peeves-- please contribute.

Self | 11/30/04 | ccmay

[ccmay]

There are so many things that make FR great. It's my favorite place on the Internet and I am proud to support it financially.

However, there are a few things that have been getting under my skin too.

1. Jokes about the "72 virgins" every time there is news of a Muslim terrorist being killed. Please. Over the last three years, every possible variation of the virgins joke has already been done. Hundreds of times. It is far, far beyond cliché by now.
2. Jokes about spitting one's food or drink on the screen or keyboard, in response to someone else's humorous post. Again, every possible variation has appeared here a hundred or a thousand times over. I dare say 99.99% of them are exaggerations for comic effect. It's getting almost as banal as the virgins.
3. FR slang (beeber, moose, cheese, hugh, series) in every thread, to no effect at all. At least donate to Jim if you are going to waste everyone's bandwidth like this.
4. Over-zealous moderators who zap cross-posts from DU as soon as they appear. Prime opportunities for hilarity, gloating, and schadenfreude, especially after they lose an election, are lost forever. Can we assess these individually on the basis of their merits?

[BJClinton]

[Clemenza]

Pet peeve #6: People from California bragging about how great their state is and how it is the sixth most powerful economy in the world with the best real estate yada, yada, yada.

;-)

[ApesForEvolution]

Whew! Thanks...I needed that.

[farmfriend]

My pet peeve is the inane self important posts that seem to abound lately.

[Joe Hadenuf]

1. People that think because they have been here longer than someone else, means something.

[cyborg]

LOL!!!

[weegee]

I'll raise...

[ApesForEvolution]

B@st@rds...

[ApesForEvolution]

Eff U Newbie!!!

Oh, nevermind....

[RWR8189]

People who post articles that Drudge links to and put "Drudge" as the source of the article.

[Howlin]

Remember this one?

Le ZOTTE: My very IMPORTANT opinion on tonight's debate. VERY IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS VANITY! MAYO

Posted on 09/30/2004 11:56:49 PM EDT by Jim Robinson

NO ONE ELSE THOUGHT OF THIS SO IT DESERVES A THREAD OF ITS OWN!

I think each and every poster on FR should post a new thread stating his opinion on the debate. This way, instead of having only a few threads with hundreds of posts each (ie, discussion threads), we will have hundreds of threads, each with two comments. One the important opinion, and two, the complaint about vanity posts.

[nopardons]

Thanks! :-)

I get to steal a precious few minutes on FR (still away)and what do I see in News/activism? YET ANOTHER DAMNED IDIOTIC VANITY POSTED TO NEWS!

It should be made a rule here...anyone,ANYONE posting one of these to News/activism gets a week in the corner,posting privileges removed for one whole week.Further violations resulting in two and then three weeks out of Fr,with the 4th violation a banning!

[Joe Hadenuf]

7. People that bitch about California as they pull icicles off their faces.

[It's me]

Bingo!

AND, people who can not take a joke and are insulted easily.

I'll think of more later...

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

I have to agree with you, on this issue.

I appreciate these people's enthusiasm-there are even some whom I consider to be pretty good freepers-but they take this issue to its most ludicrous extremities.

Boycotting freeper:

STOP WATCHING JOSE AND THE PUSSYCUTS! Don't you realize that Rosario Dawson is a big lib?!!! Huh?!

[Petronski]

Hey, tough guy, you're raising with my chips! ;O)

[Joe Hadenuf]

LOL

[Agrarian]

MODERATOR, THIS THREAD SHOULD BE PULLED: ALREADY POSTED --

www.freerepublic.obscurethread.alreadypostedbutnobodysawitthefirsttime/newtoeveryoneelse/exceptpeoplewhodonothingbutsitaroundandfreepallday/post?56=killjoy%81c

[TBP]

The "Republicans can do no wrong" crowd. I really get annoyed by Kool Aid drinkers, even on our side. We need to be conservatives first and stand for principles, not be Republibots.

[ajolympian2004]

My one HUGE pet peeve is people who don't use the posting guidelines.

This is a vanity and you should labeled it VANITY and then you should have posted it in Chat or Bloggers.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1213304/posts

Thanks for posting that link. I have only been aware of freerepublic.com for a few months now and have made a few mistakes when posting articles, therefore I have been someone's pet peeve a few times.

The one thing I have yet to figure out is how to automatically get any thread I start to open up in a new web browser window on the workstation of a freeper the second they access the Free Republic web site. That way I can guarantee that everyone sees everything that I post. ;)

:)