You might like this hate back and forth but old time FReepers never were like this. We had it out but we didn't attack. When I see this I think of opposition tactics.
You are correct. I don't recall this sort of flaming even with the Buchanan or Keyes candidacies, only when the Rudy Giuliani group jumped in with an attempt to force everyone to go along with him "because only he can win", then promptly tried to redefine the meaning of "conservative" to include abortion, gun control and other issues that offend peoples' principles.
I posted a simple comment a few hundred comments ago.
Your response was to respond to me with over 6 SEPARATE comments.
That wasn’t friendly, and it illustrated exactly one of my complaints about the rudy supporters, spamming and multiple posting and making it impossible to have a conversation.
How am I expected to continue a conversation in response to my comment when I’d have to respond to more than 6 different responses? With my luck, you’d respond 6 times to each of those, and I’d have soon spend all my waking hours just trying to keep track of your thousands of comments to me.
Maybe you just didn’t know what you were doing, but I think you are smart enough that you understand that answering each line of a post as a separate comment is a tactic designed for ONE THING, and that is to pretend you are responding but make it impossible to continue the conversation.
Which isn’t a very “friendly” way to respond to a substantive post, for someone who is so concerned about “hate responses”.
And you must have blinders on if you think the attacks are initiated or largely by the anti-rudy side, even though there are lots more anti-rudy people than pro-rudy people.