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From:Agitator To: I Am Not A Mod; Jim Robinson; All Nobody asked me so feel free to ignore this post. Opinions are like certain bodily orifices; everybody has one. Here’s mine. Relative to the issue of moderating, there is a wolfpack at FR that loves pinging each other to particular threads and then deliberately trashing their opponents. I’m not talking about people who happen onto a thread, I mean a pack of regulars who operate in concert. These aren’t people who are interested in debate, they’re interested in squelching debate. They’re professional flamemeisters, verbal log-rollers who specialize in pushing their opponents to the point of getting themselves banned. They’re nasty, vituperative, angry, combative people who appear to define their lives by their online personas. They’re incapable of a civil discussion. They’re easily identified because they’re survivors and they continue. No newbie wants to come under their withering attacks so not only do they squelch their usual targets, but they squelch potential new posters. Any valid argument they might posit is usually vastly overshadowed by their flamethrowing. IMNSHO, many of them are statist thugs and in any event, having them as public relations representatives for W is counterproductive. If the goal is to keep W in office, no thinking person would hire an obnoxious [expletive deleted] for a PR man. If I were calling the shots at FR (of course I’m not and more on that later) there would be no less than 15 regular and voluminous posters here who would have been smoking holes in the ground a long time ago....................................................... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1098155/posts?page=840#840