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To: palin45potus
Welcome to Free Republic (or welcome back). Normally, people post articles from other sources and write their opinions in the replies about that subject. Writing an opinion piece and posting it as an article is called a “vanity”. These are generally frowned upon because they are for the most part useless since they seldom contain any new material and could just have easily been posted in another article. This is especially true for new members.

Now, you have created a special condition. Normally noobs are flamed for writing vanities, then if they don't respond within a short time they are banned. However, you have cleverly written a (completely unoriginal and fawning) vanity praising Governor Palin so you have a built in cheering section that will attack anyone who points out your noob vanity faux pas.

I'm pretty sure you could have found an article about Governor Palin to post your opinion on. She gets mentioned every once in a while around here.

*Seriously, can we get a function added to the software that prevents posting articles until you've made 100 replies? It would eliminate most of the noob nonsense and blog pimps.

18 posted on 05/18/2011 8:37:54 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

*Seriously, can we get a function added to the software that prevents posting articles until you’ve made 100 replies? It would eliminate most of the noob nonsense and blog pimps.

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You do know - right? - that newbies can’t post a thread without first having a moderator approve it? I don’t know how long this goes on, but ALL newbie threads (vanities, zot threads, legitimate articles, etc) are scrutinized first before publication.


23 posted on 05/18/2011 8:44:11 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I'm a Birther - And a Deather)
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To: Pan_Yan; palin45potus

Good post. Notice not one response and this is the first post/thread since signing up yesterday.

Call me skeptical. We’ve seen people come on FR and intentionally start a frenzy of one type or another and dropping Palin’s name usually does the trick as we can see.

The purpose? To gauge reaction. By whom? Who knows who is lurking.


30 posted on 05/18/2011 8:58:47 AM PDT by Outlaw Woman ("...; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,... "Hosea 4:6)
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To: Pan_Yan

“We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.”...Eric Hoffer


34 posted on 05/18/2011 9:58:32 AM PDT by Sea Parrot (Being an autodidact, I happily escaped the bureaucratization of intellect)
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To: Pan_Yan

Bloody hell, man. Was all that really necessary? Free Republic isn’t a private club. Please don’t treat it like one. We need and welcome new members.


42 posted on 05/18/2011 8:38:03 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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