BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES! A plea to all FReepers... mostly new, a few old

"Know you enemy" is what I hear from most.

Call me naive, but before I took a stroll thru DUmmie land, I actually would not have believed there were people out there with that type of mindset! It is good to know your enemy & how they think. I was stunned by the depth of their hatred, not only for republicans, but for this whole country.

They are truly of a communist persuasion & I think it is good to be aware that these types exist. I guess I lead a sheltered life, living in a small midwest town, but reading some of their posts, was truly an awakening for me!

It's different now. Often times good articles that bind us together as conservatives get posted in the middle of the night by "super-posters". The folks who think it's up to them to take control and post it all. (Think of the kid in kindergarten who brought 10 items for show and tell ... the one who always wanted center stage -- you know the type)

In the old days, everyone posted what they wanted to share. A freepers first post was an occasion -- with the older members commenting on the quality of the first post. It was a better time. For reasons I wonder about, often the garbage is posted during "prime time" and the good stuff is posted in the middle of the night. Maybe if there's fewer than three comments, a piece could be posted twice. Something needs to change.

I haven't been around as long as you, (we lurked before the 2000 election when we lived in Philly) but I do remember a bit of what you're talking about. I've also noticed some "prolific" FReepers going MIA as thread Authors (or maybe I just am not clicking on the right stories anymore).

And that's where I've noticed a lot of the duplicates come in as well - the middle of the night, timezone doesn't seem to matter. An article (Zell Miller comes to mind) is posted at something like 2am - and is posted again about 5 times the following day. Same title, same source. The first thread might have no responses, it might have 3. The following threads will have anywhere from 1 or 2 to 50 each.

For some reason, I noticed a part of what I had thought I'd written up top is missing. What I also meant to say was that sometimes when I click on a link for a story I've never heard of, the 1st or 2nd comment will be "already posted." But I didn't see it, so I don't mind so much. I guess the problem, for me, seems to be in the "senseless" duplicates - no source, no link... one or 2 liners, and cross-linked to every single FR topic there is. Most of them fall into Breaking News as someone else mentioned so that can be attributed to everyone posting within a couple minutes of each other.

But many don't bother to look, and that seems to me to be a discredit to the original poster.

I wonder if I could find the first thread I ever posted. And what kind of comments I received. Maybe I joined after the "fun" you all had. :)

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