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To: Theo
Just an alert to a comment below the Gateway Pundit article by Reno232, who was Reno with some other numbers behind the screen name. Can't remember now.

This is the comment they made on Gateway Pundit:

"RIP Jim Robinson. He indeed blazed the trail. It was a great site at one point. Unfortunately he openly allowed religious wars to infect the site where anyone who wasn't an evangelical was treated differently and rather harshly, and ultimately many Christian, ardent conservatives, were either kicked off the site, or left voluntarily. He was a good man with a good site, just let the zealots kind of take over. A shame really. May his family find peace and solace in this trying time."

The truth is Reno was his/her own worst enemy on FR. If this person was an evangelical, none of us saw any Christian behavior from them. This person was obnoxious, argumentative, abusive...calling people names, and wouldn't stop writing you, even after you'd asked them politely to stop. It got to a point where people avoided commenting to him/her because they knew how abusive this person could be. And if you didn't know about Reno, and made the mistake of commenting to him/her, you were sorry afterwards. Reno would badger people over and over. This person had been warned by Jim about their behavior in the past, and from what I understand, at some point, Reno self-deported him/herself off FR, and we were all glad to see them go.

I've been here almost 28 years, and if there actually were religious wars going on at FR, I never saw it, because I didn't even open those threads. I know there were some hard feelings on threads when Ted Cruz ran for President in 2016, but if people were suspended, or banned, it was for a good reason, because like Reno, they violated the rules of FR, and violated them more than just once.

There have always been nitwits and troublemakers on FR, even from the beginning. When I joined, there was a Clinton troll called eschoir on the site, who eventually got banned, or self-deported. And there have been, and still are others on the site. Most people know who they are, and avoid them.

63 posted on 11/03/2025 3:07:19 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

That would be Reno89519.

He even argued with JimRob.

Had to always have the last word.


74 posted on 11/03/2025 6:28:14 PM PST by Lakeside Granny ( IN GOD WE TRUST with TRUMP WE STAND with TRUMP WE PREVAIL)
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To: mass55th
there have been, and still are [trolls] on the site. Most people know who they are, and avoid them.

Agree. If anyone keeps a list of people to avoid, Reno89519 would definitely have been on it.

90 posted on 11/04/2025 6:24:25 AM PST by Albion Wilde (To live free is the greatest gift; to die free is the greatest victory. —Erica Kirk)
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