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Jim, fire your moderators now!

Posted on 06/12/2002 7:05:36 AM PDT by postingprivilegesrevoked

Jim,

It's your forum so do what you want, but you aren't getting another dime from me until you fire your moderators!

This smells like conspiracy and looks like conspiracy Jim.

Paid or not paid, fire your moderators now!


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KEYWORDS: opuslist; zionist
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To: Michael2001
>... so what does OPUS stand for

Every so often, a freeper flips out and, rather than just complaining, the freeper announces his/her intention to GO AWAY AND NEVER COME BACK.

The post with the announcement is refered to an an "opus." (A "work" where work is used in the classic sense of a serious -- at least to the creator -- piece of business...)

They are often self indulgent and silly. Sometimes they are poignant. Sometimes they are flaming and fun, or flaming and embarassing.

Some people keep some bookmarked, so if people see this, you might get a reference to one or two. (The last one I remember was a Danish guy who got pissed that nobody here took the problems of the Netherlands seriously enough, and some conservatives actually made fun of that guy Pim -- the homosexual marxist right winger [!] who got shot... So he put up an OPUS and said goodbye...)

Sadly, many people get banned without ever having the option of putting up an opus.

Jim: Perhaps the forum should have an option for everyone to create an OPUS, and, upon getting banned, the OPUS would be automatically posted to a pre-selected list...

-- KotS

801 posted on 06/15/2002 7:35:14 AM PDT by KissOfTheSith
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To: PoisedWoman
HehHehHeh


[Already Already]

802 posted on 06/15/2002 7:41:14 AM PDT by Brian Allen
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To: Michael2001
>This is the 4th time I've seen it on this thread- so what does OPUS stand for

Oh. One final note. There is a Freeper Glossary put up by freeper Risky Schemer where much of the cool stuff gets explained. I don't know if there is a more updated version, but one version is here:

Revised & Updated! -- THE LEXICON OF FREEREPUBLIC -- (FR dictionary, more help for newcomers!)

For instance, the OPUS entry is:

Opus -- The mother of vanity posts, an opus is a long rambling resignation from FreeRepublic, listing all the offenses and wounds (real or imagined) that have provoked the resignation, in the misguided idea that somehow the ones who "wronged" the resignee will be sought out and pilloried for causing the magnificent and dramatic wounds. Of course the poster of the opus hangs around in his or her death throes for days replying to the opus thread, provoking the usual "so GO already" responses. And most opus posters are thought to still be on FR posting under new nicks anyway. Most opuses are written in the following form -- "So-and-so called me a name and I've had it with Free Republic". This is where a FReeper, in a pique of rage, goes on a rant about how FR has changed since they first came onboard, and the flame wars are out of hand, yada, yada, yada. They must announce it to everybody that they are leaving, and aren't coming back. One FReeper, who is a bigtime pol in (deleted), does this every 6 months or so.

Here is a link to a real life OPUS from freeper knighthawk: My last post: in Silence (As you will see, there are traditional ways of responding to an OPUS, too...)

-- KotS

803 posted on 06/15/2002 7:46:29 AM PDT by KissOfTheSith
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To: Revel
Well said. I remember the old days as well...
804 posted on 06/15/2002 4:12:00 PM PDT by Zviadist
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To: Yehuda
I gave my 50 Bucks....and it's worth every single penny...God Bless Free Republic!
805 posted on 06/16/2002 8:57:30 AM PDT by KLT
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To: postingprivilegesrevoked
Sounds like Sour Grapes to me!
806 posted on 06/16/2002 8:59:10 AM PDT by KLT
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To: Texaggie79, christine11
Hey, I am a big Ron Paul supporter, but being an isolationist nation with our fingers in our ears is nowhere in the Constitution.

Your mischaracterization aside, the point is, do you advocate the censorship of such opinions on this site?

807 posted on 06/16/2002 9:35:13 AM PDT by NC_Libertarian
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To: NC_Libertarian
Censorship? Naw. I don't mind so much that the Lew Rockwell/Anti-War types are gone. I get so tired of their anti-jew crap. We might as well allow KKK members on if we did them.
808 posted on 06/16/2002 11:16:28 AM PDT by Texaggie79
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To: postingprivilegesrevoked
good Lord this thread is still going
809 posted on 06/16/2002 12:56:46 PM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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810 posted on 06/16/2002 1:09:29 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: KissOfTheSith
Thanks
811 posted on 06/17/2002 3:49:44 AM PDT by Michael2001
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To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
... this thread is still going

What a luxury - two ongoing opus threads. It just doesn't get any better.

812 posted on 06/17/2002 4:17:21 AM PDT by strela
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To: strela
>What a luxury - two ongoing opus threads. It just doesn't get any better.

[laughs] Wait a minute. Two ongoing opus threads?

[laughs more] If people keep on getting banned, pretty soon the forum will be all opus threads...

Then we will all just discuss news/activism/general interest stuff in various opus threads as we say goodbye to each other forever...

-- KotS

813 posted on 06/17/2002 7:15:56 AM PDT by KissOfTheSith
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To: VRWCmember
Mixed metaphors.... Four score and seven years ago I did not have sexual realations with THAT women......... Hilary.
814 posted on 06/17/2002 9:47:29 PM PDT by Dick Vomer
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To: KissOfTheSith
If people are banned then only bands will have people..............HUH?
815 posted on 06/17/2002 9:48:36 PM PDT by Dick Vomer
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