Pet Free Republic peeves-- please contribute.

Self | 11/30/04 | ccmay

[ccmay]

There are so many things that make FR great. It's my favorite place on the Internet and I am proud to support it financially.

However, there are a few things that have been getting under my skin too.

1. Jokes about the "72 virgins" every time there is news of a Muslim terrorist being killed. Please. Over the last three years, every possible variation of the virgins joke has already been done. Hundreds of times. It is far, far beyond cliché by now.
2. Jokes about spitting one's food or drink on the screen or keyboard, in response to someone else's humorous post. Again, every possible variation has appeared here a hundred or a thousand times over. I dare say 99.99% of them are exaggerations for comic effect. It's getting almost as banal as the virgins.
3. FR slang (beeber, moose, cheese, hugh, series) in every thread, to no effect at all. At least donate to Jim if you are going to waste everyone's bandwidth like this.
4. Over-zealous moderators who zap cross-posts from DU as soon as they appear. Prime opportunities for hilarity, gloating, and schadenfreude, especially after they lose an election, are lost forever. Can we assess these individually on the basis of their merits?

[SittinYonder]

You didn't read my post. I don't have a problem with prayer requests, it's the posted prayers that to me seem insincere. And like I said, I'm sure those who do it are sincere about it, but I would be uncomfortable doing it.

[Bullish]

See my #278

[k2blader]

I meant ALL "new Freeper" vanities;the ones about babies and the damned newbie members,who imagine that they are oh sooooooooooooooo "special". LOL

I plead guilty to that, back when I was a newbie! This new-fangled chat forum didn't exist then, but I still got (quite rightly) flamed by at least a few. :-)

[Bullish]

I've been here almost everyday since 1998. See #278

[k2blader]

heythatsagoodonemaybethemostannoyingposterwouldbetheonewhoneverusescapitalsorpunctuation

[ApesForEvolution]

'night darlin!

[MikefromOhio]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1291763/posts


check out this thread....from the immigration is everything crowd...

[Joe Hadenuf]

Just a wild guess, but I'll bet you're in Iraq.

[Dec31,1999]

I see no harm is this vanity not being tucked under the rug. Do you? There are a lot of newbies here who seem to want to talk out the issues. It's the new Conservative newbies who are taking our place, and they deserve to hear everything we have to say. If we shut them up in a little room called chat, they won't learn.

[nopardons]

No,it didn't and yes,I was one of those who flamed you back then. :-)

[nopardons]

Okay.....

[nopardons]

Nighty night,my dear.

[MikefromOhio]

what was your first clue? :)

[nopardons]

They should learn the way we did....I lurked for almost a full year before I joined up. By that time,I knew the "inside jokes",the code words,if you will,who made sense,who didn't,and the rules.

Now,people join and immediately post some damned banal,inane,moronic vanity to News/activism.

[Dec31,1999]

Well then, I don't understand why you don't know why we're using excerpts. You must obviously not been paying attention to that part of FR. I can't explain all that has happened, and all that you have missed in one post. But keep in touch, buddy, and I'll explain what has happened best I can.

The upshot is that the major newspapers didn't like us reprinting entire articles, threatened to sue, and so on. So we excerpt. That's the short story, my friend.

[stands2reason]

1. Permanent Fixture Trolls

2. It's spelled "loser," people!!!! NOT "LOOSER!!!"

[k2blader]

Did you really? On my "What do you say to people who ask 'So when are you getting married?'" thread? *LOL*

I only remember the nickname of one person who flamed me, and though we've never posted to each other again, over time I've noticed we seem pretty much on the same wavelength.

[nopardons]

Probably. LOL

Yes,we usually ARE in full and complete accord. :-)

[Bullish]

Give me a break, will ya'. I have noticed snips in article that did not require excerpting. There are snips in articles that do require it, I'm sure. but many are snipping for another reason, and I'm not sure why.

Did you have to get "snippy" about it?

Does that make you feel smart?

[onyx]

I was forced to "snip" down to 100 words.