Posted on 08/26/2002 9:57:23 AM PDT by mercy
Giving priority to what is most important, I have decided to swallow my pride. I had a dustup with a moderator. I lost. Though I think the moderators need a tuneup they ain't so bad really. I depend on them to keep this site from becomming a free for all whacko hate site. I used to push the abuse button quite frequently on my fave undesirables ... anti-semite, haters. I notice they're a bit thin around here lately.
It is most important that Free Republic live and thrive. It is less important that I get things my way around here. Though I do not agree completely with the proposition that it is Jim's site and he can do with it what he damn will pleases ... It's as much our site, collectively, as it is his now. Perhaps Jim does ride herd a bit too hard on this creation he gave birth to. Fact is I don't know. I simply don't have enough information.
But it is a given that FR is the best there is at what it does. If it's only my morning paper and a place to exercise my verbal skills ... it's worth supporting. Now is the time for all level headed thinking FReepers to come to the aid of our wounded friend ... Free Republic.
You are welome to try. Somehow I don't think you have it in ya.
I just wanted to let you two know that this is really wonderful watching you guys ear-wax poetic o'er your reconciliation.
now, can you remember where that abuse button is ?
Yeah! You commie RAT!
Well you have proven that you are 12 years old on your first period. Now what?
I appreciate that, Ragin1.
I just really wish you would not have spammed the Keyes show threads with your hate.
I don't share your opinion of Alan Keyes - that is true. But I generally try to follow the rules, expressing my opinon without getting personal with other Freepers; typically - and anyone who really knows me knows this is true - people get personal with me before I get personal with them. If that's the tone they set, I'm happy to oblige (and honestly, I should probably just walk away - I'll concede that much - but like you, I am a bit of a scrapper).
I think everyone who is here simply has to be able to tolerate some level of disagreement, and often Keyes supporters, it seems to me, have some trouble with that concept.
As for labeling my way of expressing myself "hate", I wouldn't call the way you treated me this past weekend a love letter, either. :)
Keep in mind that it's all in the eye of the beholder. For all of us.
So now you know, but your little pac never were repremanded one bit, I'd bet.
That's not true. I never have been personally, but I know you're wrong about that. I know you'll be surprised, but that's the broader point I'm trying to make. The moderation is here is far more even-handed than a lot of people think it is. Maybe Bush supporters complain about it less - I don't know.
With regard to the two moderators in question, it's been my experience in business and elsewhere that people that exhibit an extreme unfitness for a position rarely redeem themselves. Most likely they will cool it for awhile and resume their natural behavior at a later point in time.
I've heard a lot about these two and if half of it is correct they would make certain Olympic Ice Skating Judges look good by comparison.
You are not a Registered-bot are you.
CWO, you are so welcome. What you said about my dad the other day was some of the greatest encouragement anyone has ever given me.
LOL!! You poor thing!! :)
That would be a good guess IMO
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