Moderators: What are the rules for posting? (Vanity)

freerepublic.com ^ | 7/15/2009 | ME

[Red in Blue PA]

I post many items here, from business to politics and evrything in between, and sometimes entertainment as a nice distraction from all of the corrupt politicians. Recently I tried to post an article about a supermodel who is pregnant. I thought it was a mistake after it was pulled the first time, but it was pulled a second.

What is so objectionable to this news item? And is there a place we can look for a set of rules, as I have seen much worse than this posted int he past.

[central_va]

Read the FR home page, Yank...

[Rebelbase]

I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve never had an article pulled, posted in the wrong category or been spanked by a mod.

[Red in Blue PA]

This is the article in question.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532522,00.html?test=faces

[Lazamataz]

1) Do what they want.

2) Don’t do what they don’t want.

[null and void]

I always knew Jim Rob could do that...

[Red in Blue PA]

And I post it under “Misc”, so I am not passing it off as news

[freebilly]

Well, if this were DU, the post would have pulled for having a pregnancy, not an abortion....

[Lazamataz]

I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve never had an article pulled, posted in the wrong category or been spanked by a mod.

I was spanked by a mod.

She wore heels.

It was hot.

[peyton randolph]

A m00se named Jim Thompson once bit my sister. Hugh and series story.

[Rebelbase]

Simple answer: You didn’t post it into breaking news with a “Must Read” tag.

[P-Marlowe]

Why on earth would you waste bandwidth with that article?

[Just another Joe]

How about FReepmailing the mods and asking instead of posting a vanity about it?

[xcamel]

like ego-mad bloggers constantly posting in ‘news/activism’
and flame-baiting creationist trolls doing the same?

whooda-thunkit

[Dick Bachert]

Red,
I’m NOT a moderator BUT I suspect you’ll hear that — especially now — FR is devoted to exposing — and offering solutions for — the rapid-fire abuses of the Constitution by the gang of Chicago thugs who have hijacked the government here.

For pure fun and entertainment, there’s always newspapers, network TV and MSNBC.

[Travis T. OJustice]

1) Do what they want.

2) Don’t do what they don’t want.

LOL, from the master of doing "what they don’t want."

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Maybe Jim Thompson didn’t like it.

[Red in Blue PA]

Honestly, I get tired of all of the corrupt politicians.....articles like that (and the comments here on them) are a welcome change.

[Pistolshot]

I was spanked by a mod.
She wore heels.
It was hot.

You have to be in the same room for this to work.

Just sayin'

[Rebelbase]

For questionable material use Alt-F4 to send a message to the mods.

[freebilly]

Why on earth would you waste bandwidth with that article?

Context is everything. He should have changed the title to read "Supermodel Chooses Life Over Abortion". Would have skated through fine....

[Leg Olam]

Free Republic takes a dim view of people without navels pregnant or otherwise.

[RabidBartender]

LOL!

[Red in Blue PA]

I don’t consider anything on FOxnews to be “questionable material”

[BlueAngel]

Pictures that were not appropriate, perhaps?

[Red in Blue PA]

The 2nd posting had no pictures.

[Travis T. OJustice]

If you go to the admin moderators about page (http://www.freerepublic.com/~adminmoderator/index?U=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freerepublic.com%2Ffocus%2Ff-news%2F2293054%2Fposts ), you see rules and learn they look like this:

[ovrtaxt]

I’ve had several business articles pulled recently. One was from Bloomberg- I tried to post directly from it but got the ‘prohibited’ message, so I just posted a link to the article and it got pulled.

What, we’re to never ever reference Bloomberg here in any way?

Then, I tried to post a Thomas Woods article that was prohibited because it was from lewrockwell.com. That was prohibited too.

Let’s get a grip. This is just getting stupid.

[MplsSteve]

I guess it all depends on where you posted your story. or maybe you caught one of the mods on a bad day. Hard to say what the reason was.

I’ve posted a few stories somewhat like yours and haven’t had one yanked. Maybe I’ve just been lucky with that.

Here’s what I’d do...

I always think about where it’d be best to place the story. If I were posting a story like yours, I’d place it in General/Chat. usually, that does the trick for me.

[b4its2late]

Remember, Sidebar Moderator is no longer with us or at least reported missing. He or she fell off the ship.

[Red in Blue PA]

One was posted in General/Chat, one in News/Misc.

Both pulled.

On different days.

[P-Marlowe]

Try posting it in Religion.

[MARTIAL MONK]

I was spanked by a mod.

She wore heels.

It was hot.

As long as she didn't pull your thread...

[Sloth]

You forgot the most important rule on FR: Don’t cross Jim Thompson.

[Bean Counter]

You were missing a link to YouTube.

[T Minus Four]

I don’t consider anything on FOxnews to be “questionable material”

Oh REALLY?

They have more celebrity gossip than the Enquirer and that idiotic "naughty librarian" sex column writer who posts quasi-serious articles about multiple orgasms and "sexting".

You really have to wade through thigh-deep sewage to find the real news on Foxnews.com

[reagan_fanatic]

"I didn't like it, so I pulled it. Got a problem wit dat?"

[Daisyjane69]

That does it. I spit out my orange juice on the monitor. I’m going back to bed.

LOL

;) That was funny.

[xcamel]

Exactly...

[trisham]

I'm surprised that there was no comment when the thread was pulled. Very often, there is.

Still, with all that is going on here, imho, it is possible that the subject matter was deemed inappropriate or frivolous.

"Free Republic is a site dedicated to the concerns of traditional grassroots conservative activists. We're here to discuss and advance our conservative causes in a more or less liberal-free environment."

[MikeWUSAF]

This forum is being corrupted with too many nonpolitical discussions. Some variations and fun threads are okay but they have really increased including vanity threads. I’d like to see a $5.00 charge for each vanity.

[autumnraine]

Maybe the supermodel being pregnant is more for general/chat than news.

[Red in Blue PA]

I think the 1st was simply “no thanks”.

When I posted it a second time (as I thought it had been pulled by mistake) it was “please do not post pulled info”

[Red in Blue PA]

The 1st time I posted it in general/chat

[Red in Blue PA]

I doubt if this would have been pulled if it had been an article on Susan Hasselbeck.

[Lazamataz]

That does it. I spit out my orange juice on the monitor. I’m going back to bed. LOL ;) That was funny.

Another Satisfied Customer^TM

:)

[Lakeshark]

I always knew Jim Rob could do that...

You, of course, meant Jim Thompson........

[trisham]

I think the 1st was simply “no thanks”.

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I'm guessing that the subject matter was an issue, then. Why not ask the Mods directly?

[Lazamataz]

As long as she didn't pull your thread...

LOLz

[Red in Blue PA]

I am not sure which mod pulled it, hence the vanity.