http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2549830/posts
read post 45 which was a response to deleted post 19.
Post 19 read....”With all due respect, this should have been posted on the News/Activism Forum. This is a topic that deals with our freedoms in this country and is not just a religious issue. I’d be willing to post it on the News/Activism Forum for those who want to comment on it without grappling with the RF guidelines.”
Silly me, I figured that if I posted a dupe thread in News/Activism without first contacting the original poster of the thread, that it would be discourteous. The only place to contact the original poster of the thread was on the thread itself.
Quite a Catch 22. I’d lose either way.
The irony to the whole situation is, they would only have had support for the issue. I saw the thread and intended to post supporting the man, but didn’t
Assuming the quote is accurate, the quoted comment was appropriately deleted. It was a metadiscussion which detracted from the caucus discussion itself. The suggestion made in the quoted comment was a good one, but that doesn't mean it was appropriate for a caucus thread.
Every indication that exists (and again, the posts themselves are gone, so all we have to go on is the responses to the posts), suggests that at least one and maybe more caucus members were being disturbed by the participation in a caucus thread by a non-caucus member.
And the rules are clear, non-caucus members are not allowed in caucus threads unless invited; and those rules are pretty strictly enforced when a non-caucus member disrupts the discussion.
The place to contact the original poster of a thread, if you are trying to be courteous while duplicating a post, would be in freepmail.
If I had been in that position, I would have duplicated the thread in a non-Caucus thread, put a link to the caucus thread in the comments of my posting, and then posted a link into the caucus thread saying merely that I had started a non-caucus discussion of the same topic for those who wished to join.
If I felt that the original poster might want an explanation, I would then have freepmailed the explanation, so as not to clutter the forum.