BadJoe/JimRob Dispute Ended - Free Republic Train Wreck Derailed

Free Republic | August 26, 2002 | Jim Robinson

[Senator Pardek]

"I swear on all that anti-freeping stands for - the next time, FR will go 404 - I promise!"

[fone]

>>>tin-foil hat material<<<

Please define this statement. Thanks.

[F.J. Mitchell]

A big Good News, BUMP!

[JamesWilson]

Thanks for the FreeRepublic, Jim! You're the best! I'm glad y'all got it sorted out. BadJoe has always been a gentleman toward me.

[Jim Robinson]

Shortly after we started our moderator program last year, there were several discussions regarding perceived unfairness in some of the moderator actions. IronJack was one of the critics of the program. I decided to give him "observer" status over the moderator panel. A few months ago I added BadJoe as an observer. Joe took offense at some of our actions and this eventually led to our recent disagreement. After it blew up, I suspended the observer program. We've now reached an agreement as to how to continue onward and that includes reinstating and expanding the observer program. It is in process now.

[Bigun]

WONDERFUL news Jim! Simply WONDERFUL!

[Bogey78O]

For now, I will say that we do not want racist material, anti-Semitism, religion bashing, tin-foil hat material, leftist propaganda (used to smear or bash conservatives), profanity, vulgarity, pornography, excessive flaming, insults or feuds, liberals, leftists, marxists, etc., are generally not welcome as are multiple screen names, disruptors, anti-FReepers or returning bannees. Can we still be intolerant of the intolerant? You know, for the children.... hehe

[tomahawk]

God bless you Jim. Keep up the great work.

[Always A Marine]

BT, Jim. Before you, we weren't Freepers -- just a bunch of disconnected good guys lacking a public forum to hash out our views. Thank you for changing that...

[tubebender]

Thanks for the update and most of all THANK YOU for a great board and being so tolerant...

[Hunble]

JimRob, this is great news! Each and every Freeper is so very important and I am glad that something was worked out.

When I challenged you about 3 weeks ago, I fully expected to be banned. Thankfully, I was not and that expression of mercy was most appreciated.

Sir, I fully respect your right to run this website in any way that you wish. That has never been in question, and you have performed a difficult job extreamly well over the years.

If I get upset because some people have been banned, it is because Freepers have become family to me. And to loose a dear family member that I have learned to love and respect, it is not something that I accept lightly.

So JimRob, please excuse me for challenging you a few weeks ago. It was only done because Freepers are a diverse group and each of the opinions are important to me. By listening to all sides of an argument, I can make my choice out of knowledge.

[185JHP]

Thanks for all you do!

[Neets]

Oh?? So you got the message on the train-wreck thread I am an AM did you?? Funny thing tho, whenever I try to pull a post or ban someone, I keep getting error messages....LOL.

And then when I tell Jim about it, he is so intent on keeping my identity a secret he acts as if he has no clue of what I am talking about.

[fone]

Free Republic how it looked in 1997, 98, 99...

[CyberAnt]

Having met you both, I'm glad you have settled things. You are both very special people and FR is a very special place. God Bless you both!!

[Jim Robinson]

Example tin-foil hat material: "Our government was in on a plot to hijack airliners full of people and crash them into the WTC, the Pentagon, and other government targets so that Bush could declare war on Afghanistan and other ME countries. It's all about oil and global power." That is in my opinion tin-foil hat material. Anyone who posts anything resembling this b/s will be nuked on sight.

[JZoback]

That was sure a close call. Could have easily looked like this

[fone]

Well, okay then. Your sight and your rules. Been around waaay too long to argue with the powers that be. FRegards

[AM2000]

Jim will work with John on writing a subroutine or program that lists the banned comments, banned threads and names of banishees, that Joe will have access to.

Now I have no idea how many 'abuse' reports get generated on a daily basis, so I apologise in advance if this suggestion is just not feasible..

.. but if the intent is to 'observe' the moderators, then wouldn't it be a good idea for the observers to have access to abuse reports that did not result in post-deletions/bannings/etc? IMO, that would give them a better idea of how fairly (or not) the moderators are applying their judgement to various situations.

Just a thought.

[Neets]

Salut!!!