Ignorance, hm? You know, it's funny...I haven't been here that long, but when I started posting I had enough basic courtesy not to do so in an insulting manner.
You, on the other hand, seem to have no problem making your negative opinion of this site known. You've said that Freepers often make fools of themselves, and that if you were a person considering becoming a conservative, Free Republic would send you screaming in the other direction.
Your short posting history reveals a habit of mocking Free Republic and its posters.
Other folks have called you on your newbie attitude, but you've implied you're really not so new. So are you a retread?
“Ignorance, hm? You know, it’s funny...I haven’t been here that long, but when I started posting I had enough basic courtesy not to do so in an insulting manner.”
There are many freepers with good sensible attitudes. Unfortunately some of the most vocal seldom offer any real content just insults and one liners. I endeavor to add real content. I frequently post link to sources of factual information. Further declaring someone ignorant in an area should not be considered an insult. I, and everyone else are ignorant in some areas. I generally try to keep quiet in areas I am ignorant, though.
“You’ve said that Freepers often make fools of themselves”
That was specifically in regard to ebola, and is simply a fact. People predicting a 100 US ebola cases by thanksgiving, and that the people on the planes with Duncan and the nurse, or in the bowling alley would get ebola. NONE! It is just facts. Maybe you don’t like that, but it is fact. What do you think a liberal should think when reading a site with so many voluminous but unfounded statements like those that were made about ebola?
“Other folks have called you on your newbie attitude, but you’ve implied you’re really not so new. So are you a retread?”
I usually don’t have the time to spend much time here. My work right now is allowing some time, and it did in the past. However I tried for quite a while to figure out what my previous login was and could not figure it out so I created a new one. I find it funny how much importance some freepers place on how long you have been posting at FR. It is as if, you cannot have a valid argument in anything if you have not been posting in FR for years.
Newbie attitude?! Maybe you have glossed over the prolific stream of insults that comes from a large number of vocal freepers.
Lets review posts to this thread out of 45 replies 19 were negative many rudely so, and only one of those actually provided any meaningful info. There were only two positive comments. The rest were either neutral or questions and answers.
I provide a positive story of a happy family’s results with solar, offered four posts with links to data, and another with direct suggestion to a freeper’s solar site problem. If you want to think I am evil after posting all that positive real information, while the negative reigns down go ahead. The very small percentage of my posts that were negative were only responses to negative posts with inaccurate information.