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Vanity Question: Best Current FR Ping Lists

Posted on 03/24/2022 10:22:14 AM PDT by thouworm

What are Free Republic's best current ping lists? Thoughts/suggestions?


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: groupthink; pinglists; sheeple; vanity
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To: thouworm; MtnClimber

Also the ‘Astronomy Picture of the Day’, run by MtnClimber


41 posted on 03/24/2022 12:08:11 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: thouworm

Keepers of state ping lists.. by neverdem.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020085/posts


42 posted on 03/24/2022 12:10:39 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Mathews

Sunken Civ’s archaeology/Ancient History, etc. ping list is my favorite.


43 posted on 03/24/2022 12:17:08 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: FreedomPoster

Years ago someone used to have a list of all the ping lists and who held them.

UPDATED MASTER List of FReeper PING LISTS; Vol. VIII - SPRING Edition! (from 2007)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811878/posts

And this one….

Keepers of State Ping Lists (from 2013)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016145/posts

Both neverdem and cgk both stopped posting suddenly several years ago and nobody seems to know what happened to them.

If you do a keyword search for “ping list” you get this page, which also links to several ping lists.

https://freerepublic.com/tag/pinglist/index?tab=articles


44 posted on 03/24/2022 12:17:36 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Psalm 73

Amen!


45 posted on 03/24/2022 12:19:25 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: thouworm; Godzilla

I should also mention Freeper Godzilla who maintains a ping list on the Threat Matrix 2022 thread. He posts a lengthy post regularly on what could best be described by me as an update on the “State of the World.”

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4026005/posts


46 posted on 03/24/2022 12:24:35 PM PDT by thouworm ("To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth"---Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: thouworm

I’m on quite a few ping lists. I’ve only asked to be added to two or three of them; the rest have harvested me, presumably because I’ve weighed in enough on the topic at hand to catch the eye of the Keeper of the List. I choose to regard this as a compliment.

So if you run a list and I’m on it, keep me there even if I’ve been inactive for awhile. I wouldn’t have commented on your thread to begin with if I didn’t have at least a passing interest in the general subject area. The ping list gives me a heads-up. Given the risk of missing an interesting thread entirely (high) or coming across it too late to add much of substance (also high), I appreciate the early notice. I know how to skip a thread if I’m not interested at the moment, so I don’t see any downside.

I started a movie ping list late last year and run it on the lines I’ve just described. A few people have asked to be added. A few have asked to be removed, which is fine, and they’re welcome back anytime. Mostly I harvest names of people whose comments have caught my eye due to frequency, passion or expertise. I urge you to take this as a compliment, but freepmail me if you want off.:)

Movie threads are pretty common. Most of them are not started by me. Most of them involve venting about some Hollywood outrage, which is shooting fish in a barrel. My hope is to develop a list where people get in the habit of recommending the good stuff they’ve seen. Good films are still being made, but they can be hard to find because most of the hype is reserved for the big franchise films, and because the streamers have such a blizzard of cookie-cutter “new this week” offerings that the good films get lost in the mix.

So I’m always looking for solid recommendations, especially culturally or politically conservative films. If you want to join, let me know.

P.S. I’ve also made a New Year’s resolution not to bellyache too much about a film unless I’ve actually seen it. Since I will read a few reviews, follow a recommendation, and watch a trailer, I don’t end up watching many bad films — and when I do, it’s usually deliberate, for purposes of opposition research. It’s amazing how this simplifies the question.


47 posted on 03/24/2022 12:31:05 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: Jamestown1630

“Also the ‘Astronomy Picture of the Day’, run by MtnClimber”

TY-—another good one.


48 posted on 03/24/2022 12:31:34 PM PDT by thouworm ("To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth"---Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: sphinx

“I’m on quite a few ping lists. I’ve only asked to be added to two or three of them; the rest have harvested me,”

I have never had the experience of being harvested to a ping list.

Given the dearth of quality movies among the current vast offerings, that seems like a worthy ping list to start.


49 posted on 03/24/2022 12:40:19 PM PDT by thouworm ("To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth"---Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: thouworm
I have a prayer thread with a ping list.

I wrote a program that can scrape the handles from the source html

It grew to over 1500 handles but I've discontinued using that one since

it wasn't getting too many responses so I scraped it and started fresh

now I am only pinging the 115 that have posted on the current thread.

Prayers for FRiends and Family 2022

7

50 posted on 03/24/2022 1:06:53 PM PDT by infool7 (Those that make peaceful (counter)revolution impossible make violent rebellion inevitable. - JFK)
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To: thouworm

So basically, you posted a Vanity...Right?


51 posted on 03/24/2022 1:11:34 PM PDT by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: thouworm

Thanks for the mention


52 posted on 03/24/2022 1:28:37 PM PDT by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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To: C210N
Is there a way, inside a long thread, to gather ALL the FRs
that replied, for purposes of future pings?

**********

If you do so. Please don't include me on that list.

53 posted on 03/24/2022 1:33:20 PM PDT by deport
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To: C210N

(what does reply to ‘ALL’ do, if anything?)

*********

Nothing thank GOD. What’s important for a ping may not be
the same for others, including ALL.


54 posted on 03/24/2022 1:38:31 PM PDT by deport
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To: thouworm

I manage these ping lists:

linda Graham
South Carolina
Sharyl Attkisson
Facebook
Clarice Feldman
Marsha Blackburn
Graphene

If you’d like to be on or off any of these lists just click Private Reply below and tell me which list you’d like to be on/off.

I ask all FReeper friends to ping me if you see a post about or by any of the above lists. Thanks!


55 posted on 03/24/2022 1:38:44 PM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed with the clot-shot, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
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To: Osage Orange; All

“So basically, you posted a Vanity...Right?”

??? Yes. You ask...why?

I posted it as a vanity because I didn’t have a direct link to pose the question otherwise.

I asked freepers who were interested to post the ping lists they have found to be most informative and valuable to them.

Why? Because many freepers selflessly aggregate threads on a particular topic into a ping list on subjects they themselves are interested in. These ping lists can be enormously helpful to freepers who simply do not have the time to scan every thread that is posted on FR looking for information and perspective on subjects most important to them.

I am grateful to have received more replies than I thought I would. I also added to the thread those ping lists to which I currently subscribe in case they might be valuable to others.


56 posted on 03/24/2022 1:46:44 PM PDT by thouworm ("To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth"---Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: infool7

Prayer thread. TY


57 posted on 03/24/2022 1:51:20 PM PDT by thouworm ("To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth"---Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: upchuck

TY for your contributions. Attkisson and Feldman are always worthy of a read. I will check out a few of the others and private reply later. TY.


58 posted on 03/24/2022 1:55:35 PM PDT by thouworm ("To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth"---Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: thouworm

I was wrong. Sorry.


59 posted on 03/24/2022 1:57:47 PM PDT by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: Osage Orange

I appreciate both your reply and you for replying.

Regards...TW


60 posted on 03/24/2022 2:09:41 PM PDT by thouworm ("To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth"---Theodore Roosevelt)
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