Posted on 06/23/2006 12:27:30 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
If your concern is trolls, you are adding to the problem because now a troll can buy his way into FR. He will be harder to get rid of. Not impossible but harder.
If your concern is the "cash flow", I'll wait till I hear from the management.
We have to have restraint. Believe me, if this was my forum, I'd be talking to myself.
lmao
Agreed, I'm on some other forums, and the posts just pile up with no reference to who and what they're about.
Excellent point. I started donating about a year after I found this place. You either want a free lunch or not.
So, what happened? What was delay's reaction?
I say we slap a $5 fee on vanity posts. That'll ease server load.
On the other hand, I can see some possible merit to the idea of donors having some privileges non-donors do not have access to and/or having that based on level of donation, or length of posting history, and maybe exceptions for those posters whose contribution to the board are such that the owner, moderator(s) or members can recommend them for privileges they wouldn't necessarily have otherwise.
Having said that, I love this place just the way it is. Any board is going to have the occasional troll and for the most part, I either ignore them, or laugh at them. I don't much worry about them.
I promise I will not do it again.
I promise I will not do it again.
I don't think it's "antiquated" at all. It's laid-out well, clean, easy to use, and most importantly, FAST. No super-complicated browser-breaking styles or frames. Just nice, simple, and functional. I love it.
Plus I can leave it up at work and people don't know what it is. *shifts eyes*
Leave it open for everybody. If Jim wants to make it pay-to-play, that's his prerogative, but I hope he doesn't. I think it's a HUGE plus for us that all sorts of people can come here, post, debate, argue, whatever. Social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, open-borders, closed-borders, paleos, neos, Yankees, Rebels, libertarians, you name it. Pretty much anybody but a troll or a straight-up liberal (usually synonymous) is welcome here. Just bring a thick skin and a willingness to debate.
Free Republic is proof that conservatives TRULY have the "big tent." On any semi-equivalent site that the liberals run, if you step one millimeter out of line, you're zotted. Not so here.
Thanks, Jim, for giving us the greatest site on the web.
}:-)4
Well, for one thing they are so, so..........uh......well......foreign!.......
beer
No, I don't think it should be a subscription site. People should contribute, and many do. That said, I will admit that I cancelled my monthly payment because of too many raving nutter hate-filled anti-immigration trolls, who were allowed to infest any thread, regardless of the topic.
However, the mods seem to have gotten a grip on them and they are now only on the immigration threads (most of them were probably DUmmies trying to make us look like a hate site, anyway, so they're probably all back at DU), and I'm going to resume my donation.
I think keeping FR open and free is the best thing. People come and go - some post for a long time, some are just here for a few months, and there are, of course, trolls. But the Viking Kitties are after them...
FR is whatever Jim Rob says it is. Until JR says a change is needed it should remain "as is."
Then TheOtherHarry would never been able to consider buying his pony. ;)
As one whom some might cosider undesirable, I must protest your desire for Peoples' Free Republic commissars.
After all, which side of the Wall does one really want to live on?
LOL. Perfect.
Brown noser!
"So yes, there are people who do need to go as their ideas and opinions are detrimental to the Conservative cause.."
Kinda reminds me of the James Bond movie where Jaws and the midget blond were on the spaceship with all the 100 percent perfect models of humanity.
Jaws and the blond realized that they were gonna get booted out the door at 10,000 miles up. Changed their outlook a little.
I guess I'm one of the "detrimental" types that would have to go, right?
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