Okay...here goes.....
Posted on 02/25/2015 3:01:28 AM PST by lbryce
Dear Moderator, Okay. You really had no reason to explain why you pulled the two threads. It was your decision,and I have never questioned a moderator's decision. I ordinarily just let it be and move on. With all due respect your decision to delete the thread is what I believe had much less to do with the words being vulgar, it was misspelled on purpose to not to make it very obvious. I believe the reason you deleted it was because of a comment I made earlier on a previous thread. My track record for threads being pulled speaks for itself. i have only had about five threads pulled out of 2,500 threads posted since 2009.
But the thing if this. First of all I saved both posts,I have them on file and would be more than happy to share them with you. Both posts were identical except for my responses to them. The first response was indeed unacceptable for which I apologized profusely and agreed not to post for one week at least as a self-imposed moratorium realizing my transgression.
It was very late when I posted it and being very sleepy I mdse a egregious error in judgment.And your reaction was was within your right.
But thinking the post was imporant I reposted the very same article but this time I commented with the greatest respect and magnanimity. But still despite the apology and the diametrically opposite response in the nicest way possible yet, You still nevertheless, pulled that one as well which let me to believe i was not the matter of using a vulgar word to describe Muslims for pulling it the first time and then second time. I have both comments available with the appropriate date, time of posting to validate my point.
Another strange phenomenon was the total erasure of all my browsing history including the two identical articles I posted one with the vulgar response and the other with the total polite and courteous. All of which leads me to believe that an attempt to make me look bad by making claims of the second post which was no at all true and that you deltd the first post i responded to very kindly inm response o your criticism. As I said I do have both posts that are identical, the posts that I made first, the one being deleted due to the vulgar words made in reference to Mulsims and the second time the words rspoding in polite maner. If you'd like to see them i will be happy to forward them to you.
At this point I really don't want t continue discussing this issue ever again. I've learned many lessons here and have been very disappointed by the manner in which I have suported FR, emotionally, with overwhelming content and gepnerous financial support.
all My Very Best. Leon Bryce
It’s deeper than that.
Reblogging is a plague.
You have bloggers stealing copyrighted material wholesale and then in serial fashion, stealing it from each other - in this case four times!.
Let’s assume that Washington Post is an “excerpt only” site. (I don’t offhand know, but let’s just assume.)
By allowing this chain of repeated copy theft to end up here, FreeRepublic becomes accessory after the fact, but nonetheless liable for damages arising from infringement.
This means cash out of the coffers - which is actually the money we donate - going down the drain for legal fees and possibly damages.
While clutter is annoying, it’s nothing compared to the mess from having stolen material as the source of the clutter.
Someone is pulling my chain...
That’s a paddlin’.
You've posted 2500 threads. Or even 2500 responses?
I don't think anyone really knows.......They're like ninjas who hide in the shadows.
YOU don't have a turntable? Get with it, man!
I’ve seen those advertized. Tempting. Thanks. It’s kind of like this:
I’d do so much, you’d be surprised, if I could just get organized.
;oD
Yes it is. I must warn my sister to hide the cheese as there is a moose on the loose..............
I agree, if a reason is given then one knows not to do again.
I’ve seen those advertized. Tempting. Thanks. It’s kind of like this:
I’d do so much, you’d be surprised, if I could just get organized.
;oD
IBTZ !!!!!
check your beeber
The reason for the thread being pulled is never the reason you think it is.
He's in Thailand with Quidam.
Because in response to a story later posted by others the Muslims were asking Clint Eastwood to stop the violence, Eastwood made a comment about them stopping the violence. And I responded that Clint Eastwood ought to tell them to go F**K themselves and their goats.
So it was deleted.
Often ,very often you’ll find commenters making posts that are vulgar by itself but we at FR know what it means and don’t talk it seriously. Like FUBO, or words like that that. My comment was made against people who live by the sword where killing is part of their life and other heinous , horrific crimes. So telling Muslims to go Fook themsleves and their goats isn’t so very terrible to hear or read at FR.
So I immediately rewrote the post, it was 3 AM or something like that I wrote a very sincere and heartfelt apology promising never again to use those words. And responded by saying Clint Eastwood was telling them to stop the killing as well. That’s all I said after apologizing.
But that wasn’t good enough. The moderator immediately pulled the thread a second time. The next day he explained that he deleted the first post about Clint Eastwood because it was vulgar and then purported to say that the second post about the Washington Post was posted incorrectly. But I never wrote any post about the Washington Post.
I never wrote a post about the Washington Post. That was an outright lie. And I saved both posts just to be sure. But by some coincidence, all my history was erased. Which never happens. I surmised that somehow the moderator has the power to delete anyone’s history so I couldn’t prove that the Washington post history he concocted was true and he did that in order to lie about the second post from the Washington Post being deleted. Why wouldn’t I try to post the story again about Clint Eastwood if the response was civil and courteous as it was?
So, I told the Moderator that I knew he lied because I kept both deleted posts and said that the reason he did so was because he didn’t like a post I made earlier in another thread. So while i always do in fact let it go, the fact that he lied and as I surmised because he was angry, I told him exactly how I felt
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But h told me the exact reason which was a lie.
You answered someone else’s question, not mine.
Mine was something along the lines of, why not just let it go, accept that if you are a heavy poster (2500 threads), then there might be an occasional thread pulled.
Just. Let. It. Go.
What’s wrong with that?
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