I am TOL. Does that help?
Just kidding, Sabre. It's "The Other Site" where the FR haters go to scheme and plot how they're going to utterly destroy Free Republic for zotting them.
The only thing they've succeeded in doing is to make life heck for n00bs here. They sign up here to cause trouble, disrupt our reasonable conservative conversations, and try to get some of us zotted by Himself. So n00bs are sent through the gauntlet before they're accepted.
Well, that's always been the rulez, I guess. I remember being raked over the coals eleven years ago, but (I think) my ignorance saved me more than once, LOL!
Anyway, we really have to get some troll detectors and spray, for they're causing all sorts of trouble here.
I don’t remember receiving any noob treatment myself. But I started out really low key and didn’t post much for the first year or so. I started out as a lurker and then when I did sign up I think it took me a long time to get into posting comments.