Well, I don’t really care. I have been flamed, threatened to be “zotted” dozens of times for disagreements, personally attacked, called a liberal commie, told to leave and never come back. I never report anyone, perhaps I did once. Doesn’t bother me.
Point is, not everyone here is going to agree with everyone else. If we did, it wouldn’t be a healthy website. As for the whole free speech thing on forums, it’s kinda like this: lots of people become offended over words, swear words, etc. Keeping the dialogue clean, and wholesome is taking the high ground. Which people admire. There are sites out there that you can basically say anything you want. I’ve even seen a website where racists are allowed to spout the most evil garbage and hateful things you have ever seen towards our dark skinned brethren. Disgusting, no one wants to go to places like that. It was the most hateful website I have ever seen. I don’t mean to compare it to FR. However, dialogue deteriorating into unintelligible hate rants is not productive, and turns a lot of people off to your cause. There’s literally no reason for it. But bans for opinions on GOP([e]whatever) candidates I do disagree with.
Anyways, you’re dead spot on for “vanity” posts like this. I go a few months just lurking every once in awhile, then something breaks and I’m back discussing.
If the author of this post cannot pony up names, posts, dates, etc. Then the post should be deleted. Or be marked as a general warning to “watch your six” around here, that there likely (confirmed) are paid trolls, shills, and malcontents here to spread discourse. Divide and conquer. Standard covert psy-ops. It’s naive to think that there aren’t, as FR has helped break some big scandals in recent American history. There are also important conservatives, liberals, commies, capitalists, etc. Watching, reading, and I suspect, even engaging freepers on a daily basis. So seriously, watch your six.
Enlightened1 is a retread troll using a sleeper account, that has at least two vanity threads that he will not return to to face his provacations.
He is one of the Paul nuts who signed up for a dormant account, and then activated it about a year later.
Enlightened1 why won’t you return to these vanity threads of yours where you were accusing long time freepers of being sleeper accounts?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3262821/posts?page=249#249
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3262591/posts?page=34#34