Posted on 04/20/2005 9:22:15 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist
I'll keep this short and simple. After six years of membership on FR I've decided to resign from the forum today. I'll keep checking my freepmail for a few days and wind down my posts here, so if any of you wish to contact me please do so there and I will provide you with a means to do so. I hope to continue future posting activities elsewhere - perhaps a blog - but only time will tell.
It's truly been a blast and left me with many fond memories, but all good things had to come to an end. My favorites comprise a long list, the most noted being the exposition of Rathergate, leading freeps of Algore in the 2000 recounts, protesting Hildebeast's book tour, and giving her impeached husband a freeper's welcome to Texas on several of his visits. Thank you to all who made these events fun and entertaining. Unfortunately the past few months have made it clear to me that FR and I are drifting apart on key issues of conservatism. I'll spare the details, pausing only to state that it isn't just the usuals like illegal immigration, but also things like religion, the culture of political correctness, an overall decline in reasoned civil conversation that used to flourish here, and the purposes and uses of the site in general. More concerning, for the past few months I have been unable to even obtain rational discourse and commentary on many routine threads and issues without being personally maligned and attacked - many times out of the blue and on topics unrelated to the given thread - by a small, petty-minded, and vitriolic group of posters who conduct themselves in a manner unbefitting of what this forum used to be when I joined in 1999, and do so with apparent impunity.
I also find that I simply don't have the time to post as much as I once did, and regrettably so.
I'll leave it at that, as my fond memories outweigh the unpleasant ones. A time arises when parting courses on friendly terms is best before something less desirable arises. Therefore I have volunteered my resignation. To everyone who has made my FR experience enjoyable, I thank you and wish you only the best.
Our seemingly endless death spiral continues apace.
I'm new in the last 6 months.
My impression of this site is that the members do a fantastic job of finding great articles and posting them. I can stay on top of anything I like on this site.
The discussion is pretty non-substantive, though. I characterize responses as either short quips or rants. Like RedWing9, I pick the article, read it, and then maybe read 4 responses, and then move on. I rarely engage in the discussion.
I was part of another forum that went this way--lots of really great discussion, the site became more and more popular, and then it disintegrated. My opinion is that if the people who engage in really substantive debate leave a forum, there is no one left to show others what the forum is supposed to be.
That's pretty funny, it was either Long Cut,or Poohbah? Not too many other Opus (es) other than that? (I've been bookmarking them for entertainment purposes). LOL!!
Whose leaving? I am just stating my observations, but I'm not going anywhere. I have people in my family that are worse than anyone here and its personal with them.
I am eastforker, if I ever leave I would never cower back under another name, thats why I stay even though I get disgusted with some of the post around here, but, if I ever leave, like I did with my ex wife, I would never come back nor would I speak ill of this place, or my ex wife, at least in front of my children.
You won't have "all" doing that because I won't, but some posters hit me like the guys or girls who sit in malls and endlessly write their grievances in a copybook in three colors of ink.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
Opus list ping.
Best of luck to ya.
That wasn't particularly aimed at you-
I've got no time for those who cut bait and run. They wanna leave? Fine. Go.
LOL! Email, my friend. Email.
Not necessarily immediately, but all of them.
Another RNC operative bites the dust.
LOL! No, takeit - it wasn't you. We've always had our differences to be sure, and many of them, but one can hold a conversation with you. These types are on a level far below what you ever stooped to. Best regards ;-)
A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. I’m not an old-timer; I just found FR and started lurking during the ’00 election, signing on in ‘03. But I understand your feelings.
As the others have said, you’ll be back. What are you going to do during the next terrorist attack or during the next election??
Later.
Please don't :(
Why don't we just start a list of FReepers we wish would LEAVE, and then the rest of us should just stay? (LOL)
"RNC operative?" What ever gave you that idea? I'm far too conservative for their tastes...
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