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To: petercooper
What the hell is going on with all these people leaving.

I think in the present case, and many others, a freeper gets embroiled in debate with a certain faction, group, or even just one or a few individual freepers, and then generalizes the faction's attributes to the site as a whole, or comes to see them as intolerably tolerated, or myopically overestimates their influence.

1,733 posted on 04/02/2005 11:54:44 AM PST by Stultis
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To: Stultis
myopically overestimates their influence

That's the best summary in a nutshell that's been posted.

1,737 posted on 04/02/2005 12:07:18 PM PST by MrDem (Monthly special: Will write OPUS's on a non-fee basis for all 'Activist Freepers')
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To: Stultis
"I think in the present case, and many others, a freeper gets embroiled in debate with a certain faction, group, or even just one or a few individual freepers, and then generalizes the faction's attributes to the site as a whole, or comes to see them as intolerably tolerated, or myopically overestimates their influence."

"Self appointed important" This is a phrase I have used over the years to describe of few of my employees who have decided they know better than the whole. Seems you have exactly the same interpretation I do. LOL

1,740 posted on 04/02/2005 12:17:51 PM PST by Allosaurs_r_us (Idaho Carnivores for Conservatism)
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