Then you remember how frustrating it was to operate without moderator protection.
Today, of course, it’s cool to pretend that freepers supported our constitutional efforts to save our republic. But that wasn’t even nearly the case at the time.
Free Republic needs to get a corral around its asshole brigade.
I think, and I am not alone in this, that many of them are not merely cantankrous old idiots who enjoy discord, but actually players on the other team. A surprising number have very old sign up dates and often when checking, no comments for years, then they pop up. Hijacked screen names maybe.
Many use Delphi techniques to create acrimony and get people on their side. “In crowd” mentality like high school girls is then part of it. Definitely many are either RINO or Demshevik agents. They enjoy what they do.
Check freepmail...