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Hmmmm, I'm not sure I agree at all with the things you'd like changed, but one thing I would like is fewer people suggesting something be changed because THEY don't like it -- especially when it means someone else will have to do the work. To me, there's just something completely impertinent about someone suggesting that someone else change their website to please someone else. Just rubs me the wrong way, KWIM?

I could see your point if my original post had said "Free Republic sucks and here's what has to be done to fix it." Since that was clearly not my intent, I think your post here is off base. As a site driven by its participants, Free Republic should be open to suggestions from those participants as to things they would like to see happen to make the site more participant-friendly. That's not a hard call at all. If Jim Robinson doesn't want to change it, that's his call, and as the owner of the site, it's well within his rights to make (or not make) any change he pleases, but to suggest that we as Freepers don't have any right to offer suggestions is asinine.