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Smart man!

The other sites are the crumbs and leftovers from the grandmaster trollsite of them all, a place that was called Clown Posse.
Those other sites can trace their ideological lineage back to Clown Posse and a bunch of whiner drama queens who decided to storm off of FR in a huff and begin a campaign of smears, lies, and harrassment against FR and posters on FR.
They hit the Freeper Canteen thread and went after Tonk, they went after Laz, and they hit the Dimensional Doors/FReeoples thread where Sharkey, Nully and myself hung out with our merry band of misfits and merrymakers.
[Moss, newts, and spiders optional.]
They did quite a bit of damage back then.
One of their talking points was that FR was milking money from people or doing some nefarious thing with the money.
Another thing they started that all similar sites have is a section dedicated solely to FR and obsessing about FR.
[Just telling you for your own good and pinging people I mentioned except for Tonk as he passed on shortly after some of the worst crap went down with Clown Posse.]

Another thing they started was that somehow because disruptors and trolls were banned instead of debated, that meant somehow that FR censored people.
[There was even a thread from waaaaaay back about it, I’ll have to dig it up. It was from 2004 if memory serves.]

Then they tried to apply it to the forum in general, forgetting that FR is a Conservative site and not a Republican site.
[Again, just filling you in on background here.]

I was a newb poster back then when much of this began.
And I watched the trolls tear apart people I cared about.
Drove some off the trhead.
They suckered some people that had previously been solid posters into being proxies for them, getting them to repeat the talking points and smears.
And that is how they stilloperate.
They sucker people into repeating the same tired old BS from anti-FReeper sites.
And then when the person repeating the talking points get banned, their handlers at the anti-FReeper sites go, “See! I told you FR was sinister.”

It’s like the movie SAW where Jigsaw suckers his victims into killing themselves.
Only this is the forum version where trolls sucker people into doing their bidding.

And it is an OLD game, since 2004 or so.