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Is it time to dump Free Republic?
FR | January 28, 2009 | Me

Posted on 01/28/2009 10:46:53 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican

Repeatedly, FR moderators have moved TOP postings related to current NEWS and calls for conservative ACTIVISM from the News and Activism section, over to "blogger's and personal" which has no traffic by comparison.

I fully understand Jim Robinson's original purpose in launching FR, to provide a community in which conservatives could get TRUTH not available in the MSM, information not available in the MSM and access to fellow conservatives so that we could work together towards a conservative agenda.

Yet time after time, FR moderators bury this information over in "blogger's and personal" and kill story after story, vital to the conservative movement.

Why?

Without a change in this policy, I am through posting to FR. The moderators on FR have less sense than the moderators on DU, where they at least work to bury the opposition, instead of themselves.

What gives? Anyone understand this self-defeating policy?


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KEYWORDS: blogpimpwhiner; censorship; csz; czj; faq; feralmidget; ibtz; liberaltendencies; msm; opus; opusgraded; postingrules; whineyopus
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To: ReneeLynn

bttt!!


81 posted on 01/28/2009 11:19:04 AM PST by sit-rep
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To: Petronski

Ask Jim to post the history of traffic between News and Bloggers...


82 posted on 01/28/2009 11:20:06 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: mnehrling
Funny thing about API--if he had announced his plan not to air the tape and reopened his forum to comments, he'd have one of the more popular blogsites on the 'net (at least for a while).

And wasn't that his objective in the first place?

83 posted on 01/28/2009 11:20:15 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: PlainOleAmerican

Let me take a wild guess here: Your blog ain’t gettin’ the hits you think it deserves.


84 posted on 01/28/2009 11:20:18 AM PST by JennysCool (Internet Powerhouse)
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To: PlainOleAmerican

Don’t let the door kick your ... when you leave!!!


85 posted on 01/28/2009 11:20:22 AM PST by danamco (!!!)
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To: PlainOleAmerican

Ask him yourself.


86 posted on 01/28/2009 11:20:53 AM PST by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: PlainOleAmerican
DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU WHERE THE GOOD LORD SPLIT YOU!

Those DU moderators are gonna rip you to shreds, after they strip search you!

There is more latitude for free thought and free speech here on Free Republic than you will find on any lib site. Only the bedrock principles are non negotiable here.

Funny thing, almost any time we get this kind of bitching and moaning, it is from someone who tells us NOTHING on his or her personal page.

87 posted on 01/28/2009 11:21:40 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: 1rudeboy

I remember the very first API stories on the ‘tape’, some folks where screaming it wasn’t a ‘blog’ (even though it is a Wordpress blog) and wondered why it was moved from Activism and Breaking News to wherever it was put... I guess the mods got that one right...


88 posted on 01/28/2009 11:21:43 AM PST by mnehring
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To: Sir Gawain

I don’t have a blog... that’s the point. You folks are amazing... The idiots now outnumber the grown up conservatives here. I’m beginning to see the problem now... How many of you are FR moderators?


89 posted on 01/28/2009 11:22:33 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: PlainOleAmerican

Interesting enough read, but it’s not “news” in the breaking sense, and a stretch to call it activism.

Still better than most of the blog pimping stuff you find in bloggers.


90 posted on 01/28/2009 11:22:40 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: PlainOleAmerican

91 posted on 01/28/2009 11:22:41 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Uuuuuuuum, uh, uh...............aaannnnnnd....................................................um.)
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To: TankerKC

Me too.


92 posted on 01/28/2009 11:23:50 AM PST by CindyDawg
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To: Just another Joe

“It’s still the 800 lb gorilla.”

Becoming more like a sandbox for fools...


93 posted on 01/28/2009 11:23:54 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: lonestar

What’s the mission of FR again?


94 posted on 01/28/2009 11:24:28 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: PlainOleAmerican
LMAO! Like I said, i have no need for sissy whiners like you. Get a grip, and don't bother threatening me with physical violence any more.

In case anyone was wondering what you like like, I found your most recent pic:


95 posted on 01/28/2009 11:24:41 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: PlainOleAmerican

That’s a great article, but it isn’t news or activism, it is an editorial opinion piece.. it is true, it is interesting, but it isn’t news..

That’s something we complain about all the time with the MSM, they turn opinion pieces into news..


96 posted on 01/28/2009 11:25:32 AM PST by mnehring
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To: Dead Corpse

I’d go insane without it:0(


97 posted on 01/28/2009 11:25:40 AM PST by geege
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To: Jim Robinson
LOL It's Jim's Fault!
98 posted on 01/28/2009 11:25:58 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona....)
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To: Battle Axe

Maybe???

Then again, maybe you should learn who you are talking to before commenting. Find any of my posts that are not 100% conservative?


99 posted on 01/28/2009 11:26:12 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: PlainOleAmerican
Anyone understand this self-defeating policy?

well, we plainly understand your self-promoting attempt to use FR.....cheers!

100 posted on 01/28/2009 11:27:46 AM PST by eeevil conservative (GIVE ME A PLACE TO STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE EARTH....Archimedes)
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