I don’t know. However, pulling articles off Freerepublic without a simple notice to the sender is the main reason why I’ll never donate $ to operate this site.
Hi redreno! Your comment at #4 above:
“I don’t know. However, pulling articles off Freerepublic without a simple notice to the sender is the main reason why I’ll never donate $ to operate this site.”
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It is frustrating to have an article pulled. I hope my explanation will help give FR posters the means to access the reasons.
The Moderator’s notice giving the reason for removal is found at the URL of the removed article. The URL remains after an article is pulled.
Each article posted has a number, for example, 3398255 in the URL of the article in which we are now commenting...http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3398255/posts ...and the URL can be found by checking for the number of the article posted immediately before or after an article that was removed. Or if you still have the FR Main page open where the article title is shown, hover your mouse over the title and look for the URL to appear in a bar at the bottom of the browser page.
The most common reason for articles being pulled is violation of copyright and posting rules: e.g. posting an excessive amount of the article; including copyrighted photos in the body of the article post; continuing to post additional material from the article in a comment; failing to give a link to the source of the article, etc.
This opens up FR to the risk of being sued on the issue of copyright (which has happened more than once) and another lawsuit could lead to the site going out of business.
Here’s the notice for the article that was pulled [Apple Turns Down FBI...]
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3398222/posts