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Free Republic is Drowning in Vanity Postings--Please Stop (Mod note--we concur)
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 | Kristinn

Posted on 11/05/2008 8:11:28 PM PST by kristinn

Enough already. Please.

Vanities used to be well thought out, researched and/or funny and somewhat rare. Now the vanities consist of whatever crap pops in someone's head and they are drowning out whatever news is being posted.

I'm not the forum police, but please add you're rant, joke or pearl of wisdom to an ongoing thread.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: anothervanity; antivanityvanity; freespeech; irony; keywordsarefun; notmyvanity; ohthehugevanity; vanity; vanity4mebutnot4thee; vanity4usbutnot4thou; vanityandcolmes; vanityinsanity; vanityonvanities
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To: darkwing104; kristinn; tubebender
I've never posted a vanity, but I've posted kitties. Or something. Fully agree.


101 posted on 11/05/2008 8:42:59 PM PST by glock rocks (Have you noticed the quality of troll has taken a disappointing decline lately?)
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To: nutmeg

I think you made a mistake. it was “writing careers” that needed the quotes.

Seriously, I have some blogs and the spare change you get from AdSense is not income from your writing.


102 posted on 11/05/2008 8:44:54 PM PST by SlapHappyPappy
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To: Cobra64
Many of these vanities remind me of the little old lady that called Neal Boortz and told him to be sure and tell people if they let off of the gas going down hill the would increase their mileage.
103 posted on 11/05/2008 8:45:43 PM PST by org.whodat ( "the Whipped Dog Party" , what was formally the republicans.)
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To: kristinn

16 vaninty posts in the past hour.


104 posted on 11/05/2008 8:47:04 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: hole_n_one

vanity


105 posted on 11/05/2008 8:47:29 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: kristinn

Isn’t this a vanity as well?

Just sayin....


106 posted on 11/05/2008 8:51:21 PM PST by usmcobra (Go ask Obama for your change, and don't bug me!)
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To: smokingfrog

Aye!


107 posted on 11/05/2008 8:53:20 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (A member of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition...ready for four years of hard slogging.)
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To: kristinn

I’ve been posting my rants on the Freepers in North Carolina board.

BTW, the locale message banner hasn’t worked in several weeks.


108 posted on 11/05/2008 8:54:11 PM PST by wolfpat (Revolt, and re-establish the Constitution as the law of the land!)
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To: kristinn

All the crap posted is mostly by people that haven’t been here more than a year or two.


109 posted on 11/05/2008 8:54:49 PM PST by dalereed
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To: kristinn; Jim Robinson
Two things: 1) what's the possibility of a rating for posts? Then we could save ourselves the torment of some of these threads -- not just Vanities, but also, like Christo Buckley's latest yawner, or Kathleen Parker's newest 0bama lap-dance? and 2) How about a very firm rule that Vanities get posted in Bloggers/Personal or General Chat, but never in breaking news? "I'm so depressed today," just isn't breaking. Ever.
110 posted on 11/05/2008 8:55:24 PM PST by FredZarguna (And please, no more Vanities that are Gödel Sentences.)
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To: ROTB; kristinn; All

No soup for you!!


111 posted on 11/05/2008 8:57:21 PM PST by This Just In (Support Christian Homeschoolers)
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To: kristinn

hear hear....it was fairly tolerated in the heat of the election and I too said something about vanities and got clobbered (same way as when I admitted being worried....”you defeatist, traitor, newbie, troll, pissy, hysterical, girlyman, and so on”

i hope our eat your children phase is now behind us...lol

every positive article I saw I would get interested and then find it was some crap from a vanity of goof blog I coulda written


112 posted on 11/05/2008 8:57:35 PM PST by wardaddy (I'm looking for a new Danelaw to move my family to...)
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To: FredZarguna

“’I’m so depressed today,’ just isn’t breaking. Ever.”

What if Obama says it?


113 posted on 11/05/2008 9:00:03 PM PST by This Just In (Support Christian Homeschoolers)
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To: kristinn

Thank you Kristinn. It needs to be said, these vanities are getting to be annoying.


114 posted on 11/05/2008 9:02:10 PM PST by nicksaunt
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To: This Just In

Not on the FR Network.


115 posted on 11/05/2008 9:02:43 PM PST by FredZarguna (And please, no more Vanities that are Gödel Sentences.)
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To: kristinn

Am I allowed to post my Match.com profile link in a vanity post?

Cause I really am all that.


116 posted on 11/05/2008 9:04:01 PM PST by Hammerhead
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To: kristinn

This is the first vanity in days that I was grateful to read. I think the vanities will taper off after folks get over the shock that BHO, he of no executive experience whatsoever, will be our new president.


117 posted on 11/05/2008 9:06:33 PM PST by Jean S
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To: kristinn

ALL vanities must stop! ( After I post one). I’m Mark and I approve this message.


118 posted on 11/05/2008 9:08:37 PM PST by Mark (Don't argue with my posts. I typed while under sniper fire..)
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To: kristinn

Agreed.


119 posted on 11/05/2008 9:11:54 PM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: kristinn

Eh you know it gets like this for a little while every four years or so.


120 posted on 11/05/2008 9:12:05 PM PST by Sir Gawain (Dear President Obama, where's my free stuff?)
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