OK.
Posted on 01/17/2010 4:22:23 PM PST by reasonisfaith
Yes, I think it a good idea whose time is upon us,many of us have been here for over 5 years, and we have a loyal following.
It also might make it harder for the DHS to intervene on a private site.
We also could have a combination of private/public.
My apology. Its been a long freaking day.
Everybody is somebody else’s troll.
That said, my opinion on trolls is to watch them for a certain period of time--a pattern will form. I have seen posters zotted for silly posts or comments when they were new and probably harmless. Worse, longstanding members--Marines for example, good conservatives, Paulites--as if a mod took their comments personally.
I like to think new signups are attracted to FR because they find like minds and want to join the fight against the New Politburo in DC.
And yes, support Scott Brown! Help make Jan 20 Morning In America!!!
I take it that you are not afraid of cats.
Is this really more of a problem now than before? I think Sunstein may be playing mind games to seed paranoia.
Lately, there have been several zotted who had old sign up dates, but only recent posting activity.
Just because someone has “been here for years” doesn’t make them legit. Look at their posting history.
OK.
I been there, and believe it or not , in what will later seem like a short while they will leave home and you will be alone like me.I remember my young family with a great deal of fondness.
That’s really not a good idea if the mission is furthering conservative ideals. We want what we discuss here to be viewed easily by everybody.
Would a church charge visitors who stop by to learn more about their congregation?
Trolls can’t come close to competing with the members here, and I imagine that Jim is able to raise what he needs with Freepathons. If he needs more money to operate the site I’m sure we’ll hear about it! :)
It might even necessitate me calling the talkshows again, even though I have pretty much stopped that hobby.
Trolls have only two basic approaches to infiltration.
1.) Watering down the message in order to appear “more reasonable”. (i.e. moderate, worldly etc.)
2.)Going extreme in order to show outsiders “how scary these conservatives are” using their own planted posts.
I have noticed this... I've been a Freeper since 2003 and there generally aren't too many posters from 1998... and I know the ones who are...but all of a sudden there's a rash of posters from 1998, and none of the names are familiar to me. And they don't seem to know anything about FR either, and they ask questions about things they would certainly know if they'd been posting for 10+ years.
“Everybody is somebody else’s troll.”
Reminds me of a solution, mentioned here once, to the reality problem faced by liberals pushing global warming: warm is the same thing as cold.
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