Well, I don't suppose that you need to be reminded that Jim Robinson still runs the show here, and as a result, FR is continually outgrowing itself while the spin offs aren't doing too well. Since some of you are no longer making contributions to the intellectual exchange here, instead just complaining about what FR is, or has become as you say, why don't you simply do as the earlier malcontents did and go do your own thing elsewhere?
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You forget that prior to leaving in a huff, the coven were playing their power games with the benign approval of the FR-PTB. -- To my mind, much the same game is being played now, and some of the present authoritarian crowd may even be the same players.
I wish someone would/could say it isn't so, with a explanation of why it sure looks that way.
Instead of mind-numbing 'love it or leave' suggestions.
The problems you are alluding to came from two sources - the initial reaction to the events of 9/11, and the growing pains of creating a moderator system. If you look around the forum today, there isn't much moderation going on - just look at the number of Lew Rockwell and Antiwar posts in place today - so how can there be such horrific censorship? Just because some posters say these articles shouldn't be here, it doesn't mean that FR is censoring...
It may look that way to you but it doesn't to all of us. There must be rules else chaos and self-destruction result. When there are rules someone must be in charge of enforcing them. Noone enforcing the rules will be able to please everyone, especially in a freewheeling forum such as this. Apparently the monitors have the approval of Jim Robinson to act in his stead. Therefore, the only practical choice is the one I suggested - going elsewhere if you disapprove of how FR is being run.
My advice would be to continue to enjoy FR, continue to make your constructive contributions, and stop expecting FR to be perfectly to your taste. If we all agreed it would truly be a dull site to which few of us would return on a regular basis, much less become addicted.
It is still the best conservative clipping service in the world and we know our opinions are often heeded because we see them in print or hear them on radio and TV all the time. The freepers who came up with the various ideas may not get credit but they are having an effect, which is what we really want anyway. I hope you and your likeminded freepers continue to add your ideas to the brew.