[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for the ping!

AlamoGirl has researched and worked very hard, so I'm sure she can empathize how this hurts, we are relegated to 'chat' when our thread had provided all of us with things we never knew to protect our families, our cities, our very own neighborhoods.

Indeed, I have been involved with many a research project on Free Republic. Many were before we had separate forums for religion, chat, smokey backroom, etc.

I also agree that it is much better to have research threads in the main forum to encourage participation and seek out expert opinion. However, in one recent incident, I did ask the Moderators to move one of my research threads to the Smokey Backroom. It had become a flame-ette and was starting to clutter the political "latest posts".

[Quix]

It seems plausible from the description of the software glitch . . .

that the threads I post involving Christianity even though about Bin Laden, AlQaeda etc. . . .

given that they tend to invariably get attacked by very strident folk probably given to screaming by pushing the abuse button--

the software thing may be ANOTHER reason to shuffle them off to chat????