Why do long-time Freepers engage so passionately with posters who rise to the surface solely to antagonize and divide the members of this forum?
What would happen if the deliberate antagonists were ignored? Wouldn't the thread simply fade away?
They feed on the replies posted to them. I say: "starve 'em!" Perhaps we should draw up a "tag team" to help us isolate the troublemakers...My blood pressure would be better for it....and the media would have to search elsewhere to find negative morsels to exploit.
Just my thoughts.
Be well, friend.
You are probably right and I think I'll stop on these threads.
I've met the First Lady and after five days of listening to the name calling, I jumped in yesterday. I always think of the thousands of lurkers we have here, vs. the posters, when I respond to something.
But as I've just been reminded via freepmail by someone smarter than me, each party has its fringe 1-2% people. It's just that we've seen those people try to hijack threads and the entire forum in general in the last month and it's getting old.
The weather is too nice to bother with the kind of silliness of posters who compare the First Lady with the Clintons and name call and I think I'll take your excellent advice and just respond to a few pings as they come in about this and then let it drop.
You take care, my FR friend.