[duckln]

The content of FR has deteriorated over the years. Constant intentional mispelling of names, Mittens, McAmnesty, Murkyowski, way too much sickening use of 'words' such as Rats, Rhino, LOLetc, and the guttural everyday use WTF?. What ever happened to the rules?

We use to post excerpts of writings and speeches of leading professional news-makers, and then follow up lively discussions.

Now there's too much posting of links to videos without posting an excerpt of the video and an opinion on it. It's getting to be just too much bla, bla bla.

One solution is to insist that only articles are posted that can be joined without viewing the link to the video. To top it off, charge a fee for every post, ~5$, until the poster reaches a deductible amount. This would get rid of a lot of junk on FR.

As Rush likes to say ' news businesses fail because of lack of content'. And content is what is lacking at FR. We had it and lost it.

[Notary Sojac]

Back in my lurking days, there used to be a much wider spectrum of ongoing threads here.

Regular posters who were knowledgeable about art, sports, literature, history, you name it.

Now it's nearly all politics, religion, religion, politics, politics, religion, and not much else.

I don't know if the purges are responsible, or if those posters drifted away....but I miss those topics.

[EBH]

As Rush likes to say ‘ news businesses fail because of lack of content’.

Even Rush has his “Rush Insiders,” Beck has his subscription members and that hasn’t hurt them?