Go ahead punk, make my day ...
Posted on 04/20/2005 9:22:15 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist
I'll keep this short and simple. After six years of membership on FR I've decided to resign from the forum today. I'll keep checking my freepmail for a few days and wind down my posts here, so if any of you wish to contact me please do so there and I will provide you with a means to do so. I hope to continue future posting activities elsewhere - perhaps a blog - but only time will tell.
It's truly been a blast and left me with many fond memories, but all good things had to come to an end. My favorites comprise a long list, the most noted being the exposition of Rathergate, leading freeps of Algore in the 2000 recounts, protesting Hildebeast's book tour, and giving her impeached husband a freeper's welcome to Texas on several of his visits. Thank you to all who made these events fun and entertaining. Unfortunately the past few months have made it clear to me that FR and I are drifting apart on key issues of conservatism. I'll spare the details, pausing only to state that it isn't just the usuals like illegal immigration, but also things like religion, the culture of political correctness, an overall decline in reasoned civil conversation that used to flourish here, and the purposes and uses of the site in general. More concerning, for the past few months I have been unable to even obtain rational discourse and commentary on many routine threads and issues without being personally maligned and attacked - many times out of the blue and on topics unrelated to the given thread - by a small, petty-minded, and vitriolic group of posters who conduct themselves in a manner unbefitting of what this forum used to be when I joined in 1999, and do so with apparent impunity.
I also find that I simply don't have the time to post as much as I once did, and regrettably so.
I'll leave it at that, as my fond memories outweigh the unpleasant ones. A time arises when parting courses on friendly terms is best before something less desirable arises. Therefore I have volunteered my resignation. To everyone who has made my FR experience enjoyable, I thank you and wish you only the best.
It's spelled, conservative. Buy a dictionay, will ya ?
Damn! I hate it when I miss something good from Laz
As usual it's all been said, but I have to throw in my 2 cents.
I feel the same way you do, but we must stick together. We should not let the disruptors win.
Damn, this is just not good!
Well, I'm relatively new, so I didn't get to know you...now it looks like I won't have the opportunity. So sorry to see you go. Too bad we have such idiots in this world. I said in another thread that there are people who not only are miserable themselves, but try their best to make everyone else miserable. They get some kind of perverse pleasure every time they succeed. What kills their fun is when you ignore them, pretend they don't exist. Trouble is that most of us feel we have to defend ourselves against such attacks, and that's what these types count on. What we have to remember is that most of those who know you well -- your true friends -- won't believe the hate spewed by these ignoramuses.
What has worked for me is not to permanently exile myself from boards/chatrooms where things have gotten out of hand, but rather, to just take a temporary leave of absence. Right now, I'm on a temporary leave from another political board where a few have made life unpleasant for many of the regulars. At some point, I'l probably go back there, but it has been good for my mind, body and spirit to take a breather.
Anyway,wherever life takes you, goodbye, good luck, good health and a long and happy life. :)
That said, I don't know how you can do it though. Just the thought of it gives me withdrawals. LOL
The ignore switches are on your Keyboard already.. silly..
Rose colored glasses work, kinda, but not as well..
Some "whine" gets through but is still funny.. sometimes..
Withour the whine, FR would be too clinical..
Nah! FR is perfect, tried by fire, and set in concrete, unless some remodeling is done... usually for the better..
See, here's the deal. It was this way in 1998, 1999... 2005, and likely for the foreseeable future. People (often those whose feelings are easily hurt and/or those that have difficulty defending their positions) can post hooey in opi, and I can call it hooey. Especially if I back up my statement. And you get to not agree with me! (See, this latter part is what often leads to an opus...)
So leave.
The opus doesn't even bring up that subject.
Think again.
He's not gone -- he was here yesterday.
I missed that, but I do see he is still posting. If anyone gets abused on this forum, there's a guy.
But if you never win and you never quit, you're an idiot.
Good luck.
'bye
FR has its flaws, and its problems..but hell, man, so does democracy..Use it for its strengths..
To me, it's as though I have an army of several hundred like-minded ( for the most paert) research assistants, working just for me, who every day scour all the media for articles that might be of interest to me, and lay them out for me in an orderly form for perusal at my convenience. I can read them, or not, comment, or not, respond, or not..so what's possibly gonna be better than that?
And yes, there are idiots, and worse, here, but in case you haven't noticed, they're everywhere..Come up to NYC and spend a day on the subways..
NO! There was a post running on the subject. It is\was not satire, the same post from an article is running on another forum, the posts on FR was pulled. My question is why are posts pulled without explanation?
You could be right. There have been occasional changes though. I've always thought it would be interesting to see what this site would be like with slashdot-style moderation.
I must say that I do like Opuses though. I've seen some where the commentary was a riot.
Time to leave the schoolyard, and grow up.
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