How can I filter out stupid posts like yours?
That can be pretty annoying to scroll through on a small touch screen device.
I usually wait a few minutes and let them get pushed off the front page.
Seems lately they are getting bumped a lot though.
I don’t know how you have your FR preferences set up, but you can set “brevity” to “headers” rather than “text” and you won’t see the full content posts until you click on the specific thread.
I too weary of having to scroll an entire page to skip their overlong ubiquitous screeds but if the Ist Amendment does not have a place at FR then where does it?
So don't let the myrmidons of “The One True Religion” irritate you—many of them are good conservatives otherwise.
I only view the headline and an excerpt of each article. If I want to read an article I open it. It sounds like you have FR set up differently. Check settings and see if you can change it.
I have the same difficulty. And I am not antiCatholic.
I don’t have an Ipad or an Iphone, but when I click on something that I don’t like I merely go to the right hand corner and click the X.
I think your title could have been better phrased to read, “How can I filter out giant picture-spam posts on some of the religious threads?” Just saying...
Agree 100%. These posts take up two thirds of the main page. Half the post is in Latin.
—seriously. Its one post taking over the board.
frankly I think the Catholics ought to just post a link to where the faithful can click if they want to read for an hour.
Just did 15 swipes to get through the latest one of those. If you are prone to motion sickness, those posts can require a trip to the toe-let or a need for a bucket close by. Maybe some Dramamine.
Oh, so you don’t enjoy the Attack Of The Fifty Foot Burgundy Boxes, lol?
I’ve often wondered which diocese approved this FR ministry, since the RCC does not look upon private ministry kindly at all.
My suggestion would be to freepmail the posters themselves and ask them nicely please not to do that. Include a link to this thread.
Point out that nobody — nobody — not even people in agreement with them, is going to read all of that stuff.
I would also cc some of the most long-winded of the posters on the anti-Mormon threads. Not that their datadumps take up quite as much screen-realestate as some of the Catholic threads but they do share the same tedious non-readability aspects.
Perhaps the people posting that don't realize that many Freepers have very limited time available to them in the morning before they head out for the day, and that those posts make it very difficult to find the important news items we seek.
If you only want news, click the News/Activism forum in the right hand toolbar. It filters out all other forums.
I am in line at Walmart buying my new sweatpants and I am trying browse freerepublic and it literally takes me HOURS to scroll past all these Catholic posts!!! its like running the Boston Marathon BUT WITH MY FINGERS!!! all this painful scrolling to just see a picture of the virgin Mary?? it made me sick, I almost threw up on my Taylor Swift concert shirt!!!
I do not get any pictures on the latest article page, while i do not see long pictures in a thread, but that comes with part of being able to dialog, and which can get into much depth.
I myself am interested in the religion threads, but i find the often promoting of Catholicism (though most of her members are liberal), far more than her “competition,” to be provoking. And which often results in the promoters complaining when challenged
Unless they are giants?
Maybe there should be an option for viewing FR threads in “plain text”, as opposed to HTML. Yahoo Mail has such an option.
Both of them make it very easy to hide all graphics, so all you see is text.
Does not help unfortunately with a couple of the anti-Mormon fanatics who like to post 800-line screeds in ransom note typography.