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Vanity attempt to get zotted -- Shadow banning on Free Republic
My brain | 19 August 2022 | Me

Posted on 08/19/2022 1:51:08 PM PDT by Magnatron

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To: Magnatron
A couple weeks ago, I hit the "report abuse" feature to point out a thread with three obscene posts on it. It was ignored by the moderator(s).

FR was and, hopefully, still is family-friendly. But then, I guess I'm just a veteran 24-years-a-freeper-fuddy-duddy.....and not "with-it" any more.

Leni/MinuteGal

61 posted on 08/19/2022 3:18:55 PM PDT by MinuteGal (.....! MAGA !.....! MAGA!.....! MAGA !.....)
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To: Magnatron

Understood, and you’re right re other issues.


62 posted on 08/19/2022 3:27:54 PM PDT by tomkat ( SOTU = FUBAR)
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To: Magnatron
Posts do not migrate to the top when people respond. They remain in serial order. So perhaps you just are not aware of that fact, and you mistakenly believe that your posts get bumped to the top if enough people respond to your post?

In short, I'm saying you are not being shadow banned.

63 posted on 08/19/2022 3:34:44 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Magnatron

You bring up some very valid complaints. And yet as you see by the replies many Freepers disagree with you as they ridicule your comments.

But you’ve been here longer than I have and you probably know as well as I do that the moderators are not going to respond to this thread and they’re not going to change their practices. The number one rule of a moderator is that moderators are never wrong.

Yet FR still continues as a haphazard hot mess of articles being posted and re-posted with little to no organization or structure. Then there are the keyword abusers. Just look at any thread regarding the Ukraine/Russian war and you’ll see keywords used as insults both for pro-Russian advocates and pro Ukraine advocates. And the funny thing is the moderators know who posts these keywords, yet they do nothing about them.

Then there is Breaking News. God forbid anybody should ever post anything in Breaking News as it is strictly reserved for Freepathons, Trump rallies and the Sunday morning talkshow thread.


64 posted on 08/19/2022 3:45:10 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Fake News. Might be true; but it’s designed to distort, mislead, brainwash and BS sheeple. )
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To: Responsibility2nd

I still don’t see how moderators had anything to do with Magnatron’s issue.


65 posted on 08/19/2022 3:56:28 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DLfromthedesert

He didn’t say it was gone. He said the links from the topics he was identifying it as were gone, so people interested in the topic could no longer find it when time had moved it out of easily viewed posts.


66 posted on 08/19/2022 4:08:09 PM PDT by mairdie (Descendants of the Sun - I Will Hold My Ground - Darryl Worley - https://youtu.be/GSMDQoTlNK8)
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To: Migraine

No. I can understand objecting to your changing the headline because it wipes out the ability to search if someone looks for the complete phrase. Perhaps you could check with mods if it’s acceptable to add tiny amt of info AFTER the correct headline.


67 posted on 08/19/2022 4:13:22 PM PDT by mairdie (Descendants of the Sun - I Will Hold My Ground - Darryl Worley - https://youtu.be/GSMDQoTlNK8)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I certainly don’t screen, but have no idea what others do.


68 posted on 08/19/2022 4:14:53 PM PDT by mairdie (Descendants of the Sun - I Will Hold My Ground - Darryl Worley - https://youtu.be/GSMDQoTlNK8)
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To: hardspunned

You should think higher of yourself!

The one word that does come to mind is “humblegunner”

It’s a litmus test, of sorts.


69 posted on 08/19/2022 4:35:18 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: Magnatron

just put the words “RON PAUL” in there.

Always worked in the past.


70 posted on 08/19/2022 4:37:16 PM PDT by tanstaafl.72555
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To: EEGator

I didn’t like Chris Eliot at all. But I feel he redeemed himself and his humor in Schitts Creek.

It was more relaxed, he didn’t try so hard. It flowed easier and showed us that he is capable of being respected and funny.

The last episode really made me like the character.


71 posted on 08/19/2022 4:38:36 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: tanstaafl.72555; Bikkuri
just put the words “RON PAUL” in there.

Always worked in the past.


tanstaafl.72555
4/2/2022

Now, just WHAT would you know about what worked “in the past”, at FR, n00b??

72 posted on 08/19/2022 4:40:14 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Celerity

I haven’t seen the show, pretty good?


73 posted on 08/19/2022 4:41:56 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Celerity; humblegunner; bagster; central_va

I like Humblegunner! In fact, I like most of the nuts on this site, including the Q-Nuts (Bagster, I’m looking at you). I even like the ones who drag me from time to time like central_va. It’s one of the benefits of letting things roll off your back — especially online. There should only be a few rules on this site:

No pandering to the left (or posting on their behalf)
No direct insults (unearned)
No promoting violence (until it becomes inevitable)
No bad language (I fail that from time to time)

Outside of those, it should be Thunderdome.

Healthy debate and a little argumentative-ness is how we solve problems as a species.


74 posted on 08/19/2022 5:09:53 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Magnatron
I like most of the nuts on this site, including the Q-Nuts (Bagster, I’m looking at you).

signed,

Bagster Magnifico, holder of the world record for being suspended on FR,

75 posted on 08/19/2022 5:36:59 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Magnatron

I’ve seen threads disappear which had no indications problematic acceptability. Figured they were duplicates. I think it makes sense to lock the duplicates with a link to the living thread.

No doubt threads get dropped without explanation because it’s easier that way.

Unless you’re looking to get zotted, I recommend not asking to be zotted.


76 posted on 08/19/2022 5:37:18 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: HandyDandy
He never measured up to the pure comedic level of his father, Bob Elliot.

True. He didn't look like his dad but had talent of his own.

77 posted on 08/19/2022 6:11:21 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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To: Celerity

I think very highly of myself. It’s just the boobs around here I’m not popular with. They hate being called out on their dipshitery.


78 posted on 08/19/2022 6:45:08 PM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Magnatron

WTF are you talking about?

Do you really require several paragraphs in order to express a bitch out here?


79 posted on 08/19/2022 6:49:23 PM PDT by Radix
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To: EEGator

Was that the Newspaper delivery guy?

That was some seriously funny stuff. Now face north!


80 posted on 08/19/2022 6:51:51 PM PDT by Radix
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