lame in your eyes, but correct none the less
Perhaps you could show me where I am in violation of the rules?
thread jumping - see posted guidelines: "Don't jump threads - If you get involved in an argument in one thread, it's considered poor manners to restart the previous argument in the middle of an unrelated thread.
re: previous spat concerning a posted email paraphreasing from a year prior
Don't be a whiner - If you really, really find Free Republic not to your liking, let the webmaster know directly (jimrob@psnw.com), learn to live with it, or move along.
Normally, we don't pay much attention to threads once they've been consigned to the backroom, but since some of you are bound and determined that I see your posted "gems" by continually calling me back to this tripe, I have a few words to say.
I took the time this morning to review all of your accounts. Some of you are very close to the end of the line. No, I'm not going to tell you where you are in that regard; supposedly you're all adults and able to control your own behavior. Supposedly, you're all brother and/or sister Christians who know how to treat each other at our Lord has required. That's all any of you need to know.
As to anyone or someone "causing" another FReeper to be banned - pure hogwash. First of all, I usually don't need a 'ping' to a problematic thread, since most of the time I can tell by the title of the thread and the identities of the posters which threads I need to keep a close eye on - and do just that on a selective basis. Second, I'm way past being tired of all the different ways you can find to impugn my integrity by suggesting, for starters, that I can be swayed by "favorites" to take action against FReepers. Third, and for your edification only, thePilgrim was recently suspended because he wasn't smart enough to stop insulting me in a direct exchange of comments. It had nothing at all to do with anyone other than thePilgrim.
And for your further edification, drstevej had an opportunity to be reinstated, but in his "infinite wisdom" he managed to make the owner of the site angry. Mr. Robinson left it up to me and I said "no". Some of you really are T.S.F.W.
And should any of you wish to report me for "abuse" please feel free to bring Mr. Robinson in on this one. What the heck, rather than just ban the lot of you, we may eliminate the Religion Forum and all religious talk from Free Republic entirely. I have come to believe that would make some of you quite happy.
If you wish to stay around Free Republic, shape up. If you are "tired and you wanna go home", just keep doing what you have been doing.
Long ago, when I was a newbie, I received the following advice when I attempted to invoke that rule:
They had to have written those guidelines BEFORE JerryM & the Calvin crew got into predestination discussions with ftD and the arminian crew. They just pick up thread after thread with the same discussion.So, it won't be poor manners, it'll be a "reset."
-xzins in Post #809 on the "T.U.L.I.P. and why I disagree with it" thread.
If I violated currently enforced rules, I apologize. But I was going on the best advice I had until this time.
Jean