Posted on 02/09/2015 1:20:15 AM PST by PittsburghAfterDark
I know this thread and topic is going to go over like a lead balloon but I have to say it. The constant, prevalent and gruesome pro-life themed articles are really becoming a nuisance to this long time reader and occasional poster.
This is not a call for a pro-choice viewpoint, I'm not advocating that personally and realize that will, thankfully, never happen here. However there becomes a point when preaching to the choir about the horrors of abortion in heinous detail either visually or in writing just becomes disgusting.
I frequent this site overnight and scanning from top to bottom I run into articles from Liveactionnews.org (Two back to back articles tonight.) Clinicquotes.com (Two more articles tonight.) that are more vile, nauseating and cringe worthy than anything put together by Clive Barker, Steven King or Thomas Harris.
It wouldn't be so bad if the most sensational and graphic parts of the posts were made outside the first, browsable/readable, part of the feed. Therefore it is unavoidable to people looking for other topics. Of course though the click bait nature of the net demands it comes first.
This is a message to the repeat posters of articles of these sites. Enough. We are all aware of what the topic at hand entails. We know about the process, the thorough descriptions and vomitous images. We don't need to be beat over the head with it when people on this site pray for change, vote for change, donate to change and volunteer for changes in abortion as it exists in America.
You are preaching to evangelized, there aren't many converts to be had here and no one wants to have their breakfast day after day after day with the images you posit in their cranium at first light. Free Republic has replaced my morning paper and since I cancelled my real morning paper long ago, for obvious reasons, I tire of waking up every day to the printed word version of snuff films before I eat Cheerios and head out for morning cardio.
This site has firm filters on a number of websites for conspiracy theories, political reasons and content reasons. In my opinion Free Republic does not need to be littered with sensational click bait for pro-life outlets and significant driver of traffic for their fundraising and activism. This is especially true when it becomes noticeable enough that comments need to be made to that effect.
Thanks for speaking up. I can’t read them either.
There is something wrong with people who push this stuff on pro lifers.
Dittos!
Yeah, we’re all in agreement this site and the overwhelming majority of readers are pro-life.
We’re not pro snuff film and its literary equivalent.
Closing your eyes wont make the Evil go away!
If you have to say it’s not an attack, then it is.
You don’t have to click on the links if you are sensitive to the images, but reality cannot be pushed away forever and its horrors will be in full view of all eventually.
I just skip over them. The headline and summary are enough. I know how vile abortion is. I just simply ignore the posts.
The secret is to not read what you don’t want to read.
""In my opinion Free Republic does not need to be littered with sensational click bait for pro-life outlets and significant driver of traffic for their fundraising and activism."
Two points -
First, I double checked just now, and of the last five articles posted just this night, only one of them was excerpted. That's not "click-baiting."
Second, There's a lot of stuff that I'm not fond of that gets posted here but I found out a great way to deal with it. I don't read it!
(Sometimes the solutions are quite simple.)
That didn’t stop chet99 from being forced to stop posting articles about pit bulls. If people wouldn’t have read his posts if they didn’t want to he’d still be allowed to post about them.
Nobody posts “snuff film” here. And to call images from abortion “snuff film” is implying that people here get some kind of paraphilic gratification from viewing such images, and that’s insulting, with all due respect.
I suppose one could consider a lot of articles about the horrors of abortion too much to wade through. There are a lot of other topics and specific sites that are championed (if you will) every day: Townhall, Putin/Russia articles, Mormonism, Catholicism, Investing/Gold, Semi-Satire, LGBTQ, and a host of others.
I believe it’s because there aren’t a lot of venues out there where people concerned on these topics have a place to disseminate ideas, information and to vent. In the end, I think the site is better off as a whole for it.
However, I do sometimes notice spurts of activity on one or more and I just make it a point to pass it on by, if I can. Although, I can agree that sometimes you feel like just saying stop for a while, but that’s what outside MSM wants to do to these interested posters everywhere - permanently.
The same could be said about all posts having to do with the treasonous acts of The Usurper, the duplicitous acts of the GOPe, the horrors of Jihad, the Islamization of the West and the fact that Ron Paul looks funny with fake eyebrows.
Should we stop posting about those things too? Most of us are pretty well "evangelized" on these matters.
It is unwise to flood FR with any topic. It quickly leads to a natural disregard of the excessively posted topic.
Then go watch Comedy Central.
I could not agree more. Those annoying posts by the “Chet99 of Abortion” are very annoying. I wish she would stop her personal crusade on FR too.
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