I explained in 45 that the way you wrote this thread makes it appear you were condemning FR.
And from the replies you got on this thread from people other than me, it shows I was not the only one who took your post that way.
I was only clarifying in 45 that I think you meant to post another website was criticizing fr and you were just putting that info here, and maybe you should make that known next time.
I think people are largely skimming the surface and jumping to their own conclusions.
Look at the 1st sentence of tadowe's (CLEARLY so) reply to (CLEARLY) SierraTime's article:
"The "death knell" is for sites such as this "moderator's" who attempt to raise their popularity by attacking competitors for their success."
Clearly there is reference to a moderator who is indicated by or in the article posted - from Sierra Times.
Your effort was to nit-pick my use of "indefinite" articles and to blame me for the (mis)understanding of others. You didn't misunderstand what I was trying to say, but you were tacitly supporting the effort of the actual "trolls" who post, ad hominem; in support of their personal attacks.
Are you "insulted" by my comments? That is too bad, but consider the reality that I am not anymore responsible for your "feelings" than I am for the misunderstanding of the others in here who jump to stupid conclusions (not that yours were, btw).
What discourages me is that this site has as many people claiming to be "conservatives" as apparently ST has on theirs, but who are nothing more than stupid, petty tyrants who *jump* at the chance to insult and revile someone else's opinion, ad hominem. They aren't "conservatives" -- they are closet-socialists who join together collectively to attack for their "team" and not for any abstract, or real, conservatism.
If FR banned for spam, as the ST used as an excuse in my case, there wouldn't be the problem with such "misunderstanding". You might notice that several reasonable posters didn't heuristically/reflexively respond without justification? The others are the type of "conservative" that posts on ST -- petty dictators and unreasonable (i hesitate to say) human beings; sans intelligence.
How's that?