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If you want no contrary viewpoint, then get a blog as this is NOT YOUR FORUM. If Jim Rob wants to say without equivocation that even if you find what you post off-base, you cannot say so, then that’s what he should say period.

The issue has NEVER been about contrary views or comments and you know it. Those are always allowed. It has to do with personal attacks, insults, and name calling which Flintsilver7 started his first comments in this discussion and you eagerly validated when he questioned my motives and sanity in thinly veiled ad hominem slurs and your continued discussions about me.

Calling Mac users "cultists" and deliberately denigrating people interested in these threads is doing exactly what Jim specifically told others NOT TO DO. He stated that if you don't like Mac computers, simply STAY OUT of the Mac topic threads, don't read them, and don't comment in them.

Some Freepers who thought Jim wasn't serious about that edict and continued doing exactly what Flintsilver7 and you are doing ARE NO LONGER HERE! They continued their insults and snarky comments and Jim banished them when they wouldn't take the warnings. My warnings are just that, warnings to prevent what happened to them from happening to you. Act civilly and you can disagree all you want. Start calling names and insulting people and you are likely to find yourself on the outside, unable to post anymore. So, Cut it out!

And exactly what “personal insult” is gleaned from asking why the person who entire posting history on FR seems to be all reposting of seriously slanted, Apple-related news stories? I didnt “eagerly validate” anyone calling you a “cultist”. I responded to a poster that responded to me.

You called that “thinly veiled ad hominem slurs “? See this is what I mean, you are almost sitting there, like some PC (no pun)leftist parsing sentences for insults that you can scream racism or some such equivalent.

What the issue is that you took a single post from JimRob as basically a blank check to “warn” people that YOU take the slightest offense with (note I did not say hurl real slurs and REAL hateful language), to threaten them with expulsion from FR. Which is just a near abuse with whatever was implied by him.

Sorry is questioning that doesn’t seem to me to be “personal insult” on an open forum that sees FAR more direct things said.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cult

In particular, pay attention to the definition that reads:
a : great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad
b : the object of such devotion
c : a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion
I do not see how your obsession with reposting articles from other Mac zealots would somehow label you anything but a cultist. That's not a personal attack nor is it an insult. It's merely a statement of fact. I would contend that the comment about loss of sanity, while initially intended to be tongue-in-cheek, could apply as well as I have to imagine that few if any cultists are considered functionally sane.

Now, as VDK has pointed out, your posting habits are extraordinarily curious. A large portion, I would guess no less than 95%, consists of a) your posting of most anything singing the praises of Apple and b) your zealous defense of Apple and near-instantaneous rebuttals of anybody who dares to disagree with the notion that Apple is the greatest company ever. In your mind, Apple has never, ever done anything wrong. I mean, their business model depends on both the indifference and ignorance of the average consumer and they are wildly successful at it. That's all well and good.

This post in and of itself is a prime example. Here you have a date that some poor soul has "iCal'ed" (because apparently Apple invented both the calendar and the electronic reminder or somehow made it "just work") because some writer made a bad prediction. Microsoft has sold about 270 million copies of Windows 7 since its release (based on numbers from October). One number of Mac units sold in 2010 put the number at 13.7 million. While the timeframes aren't the same, it is clear that any Apple numbers claiming a 10% or greater market share are listing other devices (like the iPhone and its variants) as "computers," which they aren't. I think the moral of the story is that Windows 7 can still outsell Apple products by an order of magnitude and still lose market share. That's incredibly important but also a fact that's completely lost on you.

My main point in all of this - a point which should have been evident in my first post - is that this is not only irrelevant most anywhere, it is certainly irrelevant on a conservative activism site.