Check out the dates of membership on several of those who were banned. Many of them were from the 1998, 1999 period.
A few of them were also those who were most active on the freepathon threads.
I am worried about the health of the site. It seems we can't manage to disagree without having to whine that "Somebody is arguing with me, would you make them leave?"
I do understand the banning of some of them...but some of them make me shake my head in surprise that they would now be labeled as trolls.
A few of them were also those who were most active on the freepathon threads.
Respectfully, I thought a lot of the more vocal ones came across as believing they were bigger than Free Republic. Whenever one of them had a disagreement with someone, they would ping all of their buddies and ravage whomever the target du jour was.
The website was getting pretty vicious before the bugzapper thread, particularly if you were only a part-time poster and dared to point out one of Mayor Giuliani's shortcomings. It has been a LOT more civil since.