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To: onyx; Jim Robinson
We now have at least five fewer Bush haters here on FR.

onyx: Surely you recognize that tossing perjoratives of that sort around this forum incites other people into flaming you, and in some cases gets them tossed off the forum. After all, "Bush hater" is little different from "Bushbot", except in who it's directed toward. Right? Or is getting people tossed the point of your exercise?

Jim: posters like this person are inciting others into making comments that get them banned. If your goal is to have a more civil forum in which we can openly work toward a Bush reelection, can you at least convince these folks to tone their rhetoric down? It's difficult to expect others to sit meekly by while they're personally insulted, yet a response in kind will get them banned.

1,476 posted on 02/02/2004 5:10:44 AM PST by NittanyLion
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To: NittanyLion; Jim Robinson
"It's difficult to expect others to sit meekly by while they're personally insulted, yet a response in kind will get them banned."

Amen.

1,534 posted on 02/02/2004 9:23:25 AM PST by F16Fighter
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To: NittanyLion
Jim: posters like this person are inciting others into making comments that get them banned.

Do what I do .. ignore them

See how simple that was

1,798 posted on 02/03/2004 12:17:35 AM PST by Mo1 (Join the dollar a day crowd now!)
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To: NittanyLion; Jim Robinson
Nittany, surely you can understand that a post, such as this one, is every bit, if not more inflammatory, than anything anyone else has posted. If not, then why did you call Jim into the fray, if not to get the poster banned ?

Couched in unctuous tones, your relies are nothing but baitings and flamings.You pretend to call for civility and then personally attack those who haven't even posted to you. You assume the visage of Mod without portfolio, to bash, trash, and incite a response that you hope will get others in trouble. Surely you can recognizes that tossing around such claims, as you have in this post, makes you far more guilty than if you had made use of pejoratives.

1,800 posted on 02/03/2004 12:36:23 AM PST by nopardons
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To: NittanyLion
"Jim: posters like this person are inciting others into making comments that get them banned. If your goal is to have a more civil forum in which we can openly work toward a Bush reelection, can you at least convince these folks to tone their rhetoric down? It's difficult to expect others to sit meekly by while they're personally insulted, yet a response in kind will get them banned."

Ditto I am with you!

If you do a simple search of their posts a pattern will become evident.

A pattern repeated on threads on topics not even relating to politics.

If this site is to be taken seriously we need to purge the nasty mean spirited people that are here only to fight.

Free Republic is being pulled down to the level of DU and others.

1,961 posted on 02/06/2004 4:35:37 PM PST by Kay Soze (NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts. - HA HA HA This is a joke right?)
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