HG was very ugly in his comments to me a couple of times. Once when I posted an article from Legal Insurrection, and once when I posted an article from Media Research Center. On both occasions he accused me of promoting my “blog”. Now I know he has been here at FR long enough and is sufficiently well-informed to know that neither one of those sites were my blog. So I wondered at the purpose of his comments.
I’m glad to see that he is not commenting to posters who are just trying to make sure other FR members are aware of current events. We all make mistakes occasionally by posting an article that has already been posted a few times. Or making a mistake in attributing the information to an incorrect source. But, HG would jump on those simple mistakes with both feet and pretend he was the owner of this site, while often calling others vile names.
I will not miss him. Not at all.
I forgot to explain why the aliens ate him.
He accused them of pumping their blog!
As one who sets (under https://freerepublic.com/perl/settings) the articles page to 250, and to show the (up to) 100 text leader (https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?brevity=full) then I have often exhorted posters who only paste a sentence or two of a article to try to provide the 300 word excerpts that are usually allowed. But without being acerbic. As in An exhortation to those who post thread (normally post as much of the meat of the article as allowed, describe videos, etc.)