Way Too Many Vanities (Updated)

March 29, 2003 | Admin Moderator

[Admin Moderator]

There have been way too many vanities lately. The news forum is being overrun with them. We have been spending a lot of time moving them to the General Interest ("Chat") forum. With the increased volume we have seen with the war starting, we have been missing mail and other moderator duties, such as zots. So, here's some guidelines for vanities. Of course, there are exceptions to these guidelines. We have seen some great vanities.

Vanities are never posted in breaking news. Exceptions will be from valid news sources where breaking news is happening immediately. Such as 'CNN just reported Baghdad has been overrun by coalition forces'. Or, 'Fox reports that WMD have been discovered in Saddam's palace by embedded reporter'.

Your one line vanites, for the most part can be posted as a comment on an existing thread. If you want to post a one line vanity, post it in the chat forum. One line vanities consist of but are not limited to, 'Did you just hear that guy on KASD?'. Or, 'Does anyone know where that thread is about that women who said something about chemical weapons'. They will be deleted unless they are posted in the chat forum.

Most emails are not valid sources of news. Who knows where they originated from. They will be deleted unless they are posted in the chat forum.

Most humor threads should go to the chat forum, unless they are relevent to current events and news. Jokes and 'caption this' are also included. They will be deleted unless they are posted in the chat forum.

Freep this polls will be moved to chat depending on their revelance to current events.

Thanks for helping. Free Republic is growing faster than ever right now!

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WHERE IS CHAT?

At the upper right hand side of the latest posts or latest thread, you will see a menu which looks something like this:

Campaign Central
General Interest (also known as 'chat')
News/Activism
Religion
RLC Liberty Caucus
The Smokey Backroom
VetsCoR

To post an article in any of these forums, just click on that forum, and post your article. They all work the same way.

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Reference threads:

On War Images
Announcement Regarding the Breaking News Posting Category
New Numbers for the Curious (or FR Traffic Stats)
Loose Lips Sinks Ships
Welcome, and Thanks [Newbies Especially, Please Read]
Help us out, please search before posting an article.
Regarding Graphics During Heavy Free Republic Traffic
Topic Abuse, Particularly Activism
Traffic Rank for freerepublic.com (alexa)
a colorful comparison of daily site statistics
The Ultimate Sidebar Management Thread

[antaresequity]

Please move breaking news back on top of Activisim...In the side bar

Great job on flushing out the rants too...way too many.

[Admin Moderator]

Daryl, Is that you?

[Admin Moderator]

I hope not!

[MinuteGal]

If the "Caption this Pic" threads are relegated to chat, I'm going to run away and join the Dolphin Navy.

"I am the master of my prate
The caption of my soul....."

Leni

[Admin Moderator]

(whisper) Who is Daryl?

[Admin Moderator]

Well, you can't be the cool moderator, because I'm that moderator.

[Nita Nupress]

Please move breaking news back on top of Activisim...In the side bar

They've tried for years to fix that glitch, with no success. We finally figured out how to do it, though. Try hitting 'refresh' 15 times. On the 15th reload, it should work. Let me know how it goes.

[Admin Moderator]

Just some. The dolphin one was current. It wouldn't have been moved. Michael Jackson will.

[Admin Moderator]

Tim, is that you?

[Admin Moderator]

After extensive research, DOE and anova analysis, pareto and trend graphs, and compliance to ISO 9000 quality assurance practices, based on black belt expert recommendations, 16 is the recommended of times refresh should be utilized.

[Palladin]

What are zots?

[Admin Moderator]

Something you get on your face in your teenage years....

[Admin Moderator]

No, sorry, not Tim. He was committed, remember?

[HairOfTheDog]

Chat is just but *one click* away.... It isn't a long distance call! I go back and forth all the time.

[Nita Nupress]

After extensive research, DOE and anova analysis, pareto and trend graphs, and compliance to ISO 9000 quality assurance practices, based on black belt expert recommendations, 16 is the recommended of times refresh should be utilized.

Okay, I'm taking your word for it. But I'll be doing a factor analysis and if I find any unobserved latent variables that account for the correlations among the observed variables, you're toast.

[Admin Moderator]

He was committed? Are you sure I'm not him?

[Dog Gone]

I love it when you talk dirty.

[Registered]

I think there are some serious psychological problems with our Admin Moderator, or the choir is here tonight....

[Catspaw]

I, for one, am deeply disappointed that you pulled a vanity this week about the guy who noticed that all the chemtrails had disappeared since the start of the war and so did his wife. I thought my witty, "the chemtrails are still there, but they're invisible" response should have stood as a testament to, well, something.

[Admin Moderator]

Maybe, the AM on the other thread said AM need time off. But another AM said it was rumor, you know, AM told me AM wouldn't be posting, but AM said that wasn't true. Then, yesterday, AM and AM said AM wasn't sure.