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.
I disagree. Some time had passed since her initial post, and I asked her again and she reiterated. Maybe she was not thinking clearly, but she didn't seem to be without her mental faculties.
Anyway, it's not a big deal in the larger picture. We've had people opus five or six times then come back, get banned, get let back in, get banned again, etc. What's one more to add to the list. It's just an internet forum.
The fact that someone feels intimidated enough to be forced to depart is not cause for celebration. It is an alarm bell.
Ivan
Jim very much wants him to come back, and has even suggested (incredibly, imo) that suspending him was a mistake. What more could he ask for than that? He was all but made a partner, it seems to me. He will be hoisted on your shoulders and there will be a ticker-tape parade. And that's the way most people seem to want it; I haven't any problem accepting that.
So yes - I believe he will come back any minute; after being called "Mr. Turd" and "bootlicker" for three weeks at LP, I can't blame him.
Question. What do you think would happen if a large majority of the conservative base decided to boycott the next elections and stay home?
Would the RNC continue down the path they are on, or would they try to figure out what went wrong and make changes?
Rewarding inappropriate behavior begets more inappropriate behavior.
Why does it surprise you that the bulk of posters are in the GOP? The membership pretty much reflects the general population within the conservative spectrum. The last forum poll Jim put up about rating Bush was about 70% excellent to good and about 30% fair to poor. That 30% is made up generally of the major 3rd party factions on this site.
I agree with that.
No, this is a cure for cancer. Haven't you heard?
Even though I came to dislike DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (mostly on that If Only thread), I never got the impression that she was intimidated by anyone.
Sounds like a plan .. and Thank you for working this all out with Badjoe
It shouldn't surprise anyone.
No one wants any one group to be the only one here - there would be no one to discuss anything with - but it seems as though the intended slur I hear most often is "Bushbot", which is proof positive that there are plenty of libertarians here. I don't know why they feel so threatened with extinction. They are all over the place.
If you come across weeds in your lawn do you overlook them because there maybe more weeds elsewhere?
It is sometimes easy to forget in this milieu that there is a human being on the other end of the line, who has feelings. This bickering has gone on long enough and taken too much of a toll. I had hoped with the end of the If Only thread that there would be a revival of basic civility, which in spite of FR's free spirited ways, has usually been present during its existence.
That hope still remains. If we can stop shooting ourselves in the foot with threads which do no good except to let blood.
Regards, Ivan
You are merely giving ammunition to DU with this description.
Regards, Ivan
Are you a moderator for the site ? Today I suddenly thought ,' Is Cultural Jihad an admin. moderator ?" I had asked why you sent your message to me to the admin . moderater because it said 'admin modrtr ' next to your name or mine .
Nevertheless , It does not matter to me if you are a moderaater for none other reason than I thought today I might have said something incorrect in saying ," Why did you send my message to the admin . moderator ?" I thought today , wait , Maybe I read the post's label info. wrong when you asked , " Are you selling politicaal action lists for thirteen dollars ? " , and I thought that maybe what I saw was actually you as labeled the moderater next to your name . And if you did send it to the admin. moderator , hey no big deal ,we got the FEC selling the PAC lists issue cleared up . Thanks much , your friend , voa-davidk :)
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