Your Attention Please [Breaking News and WoD Flamewars]

Free Republic ^ | 02/13/03 | Admin Moderator

[CWOJackson]

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

Something the networks would interrupt their programming to say, The networks would interrupt their programming to say if they weren't overwhelmingly liberal, Something that honestly would (not should, would) be of interest to majority of self-described conservatives 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):

Post a copy of the article to the Smokey Backroom Ping your flamee to that copy. 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. ;-)

[CWOJackson]

Okay you authoritarian neo-whatsit power mad...

Is this how it's done?

[freedomcrusader]

I think you're also supposed to ping the stupid sonofab*tch whose attention you want, dumba$$ :-)

[MrLeRoy]

you're also supposed to ping the stupid sonofab*tch whose attention you want

Statist!

[jmc813]

Okay you authoritarian neo-whatsit power mad...

All because you're a dope smoking, Soros loving, liberdopian is no reason to flame the moderator. ;)

[freedomcrusader]

Statist!

Anarchist!

[CWOJackson]

Damn...too damned many steps.

[CWOJackson]

Okay you goose stepping control freak. Is this how it's done?

And I did mean goose stepping in an admirable way.

[MrLeRoy]

Statist!

Anarchist!

Jackbooted thug!

[freedomcrusader]

Statist!

Anarchist!

Jackbooted thug!

Long-haired, dope-smoking, hippie freak!

[MrLeRoy]

Statist!

Anarchist!

Jackbooted thug!

Long-haired, dope-smoking, hippie freak!

Fanatical despotic troglodyte!

[steve50]

Since it's about always the Drug Warriors who post the flames why not just give them a 30 day ban and keep the thread in the light of day. It's revealing to see the lengths the pro WOsD crowd will go to to support their Constitution destroying cash cow. Guess they don't want to expose the idiocy.

[CWOJackson]

Your tag line is: Censorship, the last resort of weak minds.

And you're asking for censorship of those you don't agree with? Kind of hard to reconcile isn't that.

[freedomcrusader]

LOL! I suppose we could go on like that for a long time.

[dcwusmc]

Censorship is done ONLY by governments. JimRob does NOT have to allow your mindless flamebait on HIS board, CWTroll.

[CWOJackson]

I guess that's why your buddy is calling for censorship.

[dcwusmc]

Because he's a government? If only he were... you'd be executed for your attitude, in that case. Nope, he only wants your mindless bullbleep gone from here. Which, in case you weren't aware, IS an acceptable thing to call for. Since he is acting in his official capacity as a sovereign PRIVATE citizen and this is a sovereignly-PRIVATE place. Someday you really do need to READ and understand that pesky old Constitution... and NOT just with a mind to "get around" it.

[CWOJackson]

"If only he were... you'd be executed for your attitude, in that case."

Hardly...like you he's only shooting blanks. Makes some flash and noise and has about as much impact as...nothing.

[CWOJackson]

I would really love to stick around and wait on more witlessism's from you but I have to leave. Please run around, puff up your chest and pee in the corners.

[dcwusmc]

Save your breath... you'll need it to blow up your date.

[exnavy]

All your WOD are belong to us.