[mercy]

Technically you are of course correct. However FR without the FReepers would be nada. Zip.

FreeRepublic with primarrily a bunch of snitty back biting juveniles would quickly die.

Don't hang yourself up on my use of the word collective. I certainly did not use it in a commie sense. A family is a collective. A church is a collective. FreeRepublic is a collective.

It takes us all to make it work and we must reach some consensus on just HOW it will work. Jim cannot to this alone. I'm sure he does not want to. The idea seems to me to be that as many of us as possible take on as much accountablity and responsibility as possible.

[MadIvan]

It takes us all to make it work and we must reach some consensus on just HOW it will work. Jim cannot to this alone. I'm sure he does not want to. The idea seems to me to be that as many of us as possible take on as much accountablity and responsibility as possible.

Part of that accountability and responsibility is knowing when to exercise self-restraint for the good of the community as a whole. As I say, web communities get killed from internal bickering far more than they do from external pressure.

Regards, Ivan

[anymouse]

You are talking in circles. That's fine if it brings you comfort to think that you are important, but it does nothing to convince anyone else that you have a viewpoint worth considering, let alone agreeing with.

[mercy]

****It takes us all to make it work and we must reach some consensus on just HOW it will work. Jim cannot to this alone. I'm sure he does not want to. The idea seems to me to be that as many of us as possible take on as much accountablity and responsibility as possible.****

Yes, I'm a complete idiot. Thanks for pointing that out. Any more ad hominem attacks while you're on a roll?