They ran into the light of the Bug Zapper, zappers don’t move. They did it with glee and zeal and ran over to their anti FR site and bragged about getting zapped.
They made a distinct decision to go and they were proud of it.
By the time the thread got to it's conclusion, several FReepers had chosen to get themselves banned in a show of solidarity, but it didn't start that way. Bug Zappers are meant to lure and eliminate, and that's exactly what the thread did.
That was the thread where I decided that I would never post a “vote for X” comment. That was also the thread when I first announced that I was looking at Romney. And of course hoping for Fred Thompson to join.
Just think what might have been, if Fred Thompson had joined the campaign in April of 2007, instead of September?