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Your Attention Please [Breaking News and WoD Flamewars]

Posted on 02/13/2003 6:20:56 AM PST by Admin Moderator

Edited on 02/13/2003 7:35:18 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Since my last vanity announcement on keywords went so swimmingly (it ended up with something like 5000 keywords added to it) I thought a great idea would be to throw some propane on some other fires with a vanity.

Breaking news is being abused again, big time. This goes in cycles, with sometimes people being responsible, but other times people not being very responsible.

We are in one of the not-very time periods.

Please, do not post something in Breaking News because you think it is something you want people to see. Place something in Breaking News only if it is

  1. Something the networks would interrupt their programming to say,
  2. The networks would interrupt their programming to say if they weren't overwhelmingly liberal,
  3. Something that honestly would (not should, would) be of interest to majority of self-described conservatives
  4. Official chapter announcements
Or things along those lines. Don't consider that a list of rules, but of guidelines. But act as if the guidelines matter, please. And flame the heck out of people that don't. And provide appropriate feedback to people who don't.

Some things that are never breaking news: Stories that have been posted before, stories that are over a day old, opinion vanities, freep this poll, or anything from the op-ed section of any newspaper.

Now, on to the WoD [War on Drugs] flamewars. There are a few problems with them. The flaming on them is tremendous. It is wrong for several reasons, and it should stop and the first thing we are going to do to try to get them to stop is to make a request for them to stop. If you feel the need to flame someone for something they say on one of these threads, do this (and yes, it involves a lot more work than just hitting reply, but such is life):

  1. Post a copy of the article to the Smokey Backroom
  2. Ping your flamee to that copy.
  3. Go to town over there and keep the crap off the main forum.

Instead of hitting abuse on someone on a WoD thread right away (unless it is extremely bad), please just advise them to do what I am saying here- take it to the backroom. Link them to this if need be. And if you don't want to get into a flamewar, leave it at that. If you do, then join them in the backroom and have at it. The WoD flamewars overwhelm the latest posts page with a neverending sequence of posts that are just mindless insults. Please, spare us, and don't try to put it on the moderators to determine who fired the first shot. There are rarely clean hands here, and no matter what we do one side or another is going to complain.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Freeping. I expect no fewer than 500 taunts at us in the keywords here before this is over. Thank you, and God Bless. ;-)


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1 posted on 02/13/2003 6:20:56 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: Admin Moderator
No taunt just a thank you and bump
2 posted on 02/13/2003 6:24:27 AM PST by harpseal (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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To: Admin Moderator
And flame the heck out of people that don't.

OMG did you really just say that? This could be fun. ;-)

3 posted on 02/13/2003 6:24:59 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (HHD)
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To: Admin Moderator
You could also argue your point in a civil manner using logic and persuasion instead of name calling and bitter responses.
4 posted on 02/13/2003 6:25:19 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave)
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To: Admin Moderator
So glad you posted this; thank you and keep up the good work. BTW, what is a WoD?
5 posted on 02/13/2003 6:25:35 AM PST by Peach
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To: Peach
Worship of Democrats.
6 posted on 02/13/2003 6:26:15 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Duck...and cover....Duck...and cover....)
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To: Admin Moderator
Not to mention vanities out the gazoo....
7 posted on 02/13/2003 6:26:26 AM PST by Quilla
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To: Admin Moderator
My birdfeeder is now empty but I think I shall refrain from posting it as breaking news, only because it has happened before and is now considered a common occurance....
8 posted on 02/13/2003 6:27:44 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Nothing worse than an angry herd of hungry finches....)
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To: Admin Moderator
BTTT
The Flame wars and Flame Baiting is good entertainment(sometimes)
thanks for posting the rules on Breaking news.
I guess if people would just look at latest posts they would still see
the latest stuff. Personaly I almost never look at breaking but latest posts.
Anyway to all AM's keep up the good work.
9 posted on 02/13/2003 6:27:54 AM PST by vin-one (I wish i had something clever to put in this tag)
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To: Admin Moderator
"WoD flamewars"

Sorry, I must have missed that class - what's "WoD"?
No, really - I'm always behind on the acronym stuff, I'm not trying to be a smart-alec.

10 posted on 02/13/2003 6:27:56 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is a war room".)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
What a concept.
11 posted on 02/13/2003 6:29:02 AM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Peach
WoD = War on Drugs

If you've never seen a WoD thread flame war, you haven't seen a fascinating aspect of Free Republic, IMHO.
12 posted on 02/13/2003 6:29:31 AM PST by freedomcrusader
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To: Tijeras_Slim
WoD explanation - thank you.
13 posted on 02/13/2003 6:30:37 AM PST by Peach
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To: Blood of Tyrants
using logic and persuasion instead of name calling and bitter responses

Yeah, can't we all get along?

14 posted on 02/13/2003 6:31:36 AM PST by FoxGirl
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To: Blood of Tyrants
"You could also argue your point in a civil manner using logic and persuasion instead of name calling and bitter responses."

And what fun would that be, pray tell?


15 posted on 02/13/2003 6:31:39 AM PST by sinclair (Hey, I just come in here for nothin'... Hope I'm not wastin' anybody's time.)
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To: Peach
We obliviate Democrats
16 posted on 02/13/2003 6:31:49 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks (We've got, you know, armadillos in our trousers. I mean, it's really quite frightening.)
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To: Admin Moderator
Groovy.
17 posted on 02/13/2003 6:31:55 AM PST by new cruelty
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To: Admin Moderator
AM. throw some propane on some other fires

How do you throw a "gas"? Is that anything like "letting one"?

LOL. I could just see the "keywords" for that!

18 posted on 02/13/2003 6:32:26 AM PST by sausageseller
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To: Admin Moderator
Thanks.
19 posted on 02/13/2003 6:33:02 AM PST by Constitution Day (Note to DU Lurkers and Trolls: GET BENT!)
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To: Peach
"what is a WoD?"

A noble effort, undertaken and supported by those of us who desire a safe, sane, and drug-free America.

20 posted on 02/13/2003 6:33:04 AM PST by robertpaulsen (With "God Bless America" playing in the background)
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