[NautiNurse]

[Liberty Valance]

If you can ride the lightning
for 8 seconds you win.

[Jagdgewehr]

2) Most of the zotties are simply stupid. Why not try to enlighten them? After all, if churches kicked out all those who weren't already believers, there'd be no new recruits!

There is a flaw in your analogy. A majority of the spiritually unredeemed do not suffer from some mental disorder as do liberals.

The practice of zotting is a healthy thing. It is kind of like having leukocytes coursing through the threads.

[SunkenCiv]

"Gonna Zot, Gonna Zot, All Around the Clock Tonight!"

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[Smokin' Joe]

1) Where ELSE can you have as much fun playing with a liberal? Trying to engage a liberal in debate on the DUmmie board will get you tombstoned. We can always troll on DU....funny how they will zot us, too.

[stands2reason]

Why don't you read up on these concepts:

Free Speech

Private Property

And then get back to us, mkay?

[PeteB570]

ZOTs are well deserved around here because of the idiots who post them.

Most ZOT thread starters post to start flame wars, puff their vanity or just show how stupid they are so - ZOT.

I got no problem with how the mods handle things.

[L98Fiero]

I got banned when I first signed up as well.

It was back when Nick Berg was beheaded. I wondered in writing why a Jew was wandering around an Islamic war-zone by himself. A poster commented that Berg wasn't a Jew. I then posted a link that confirmed that he was indeed Jewish. The poster them posted my sign-up date and pinged the Admin. I was then banned.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Recently, a FReeper put forward the notion of a "probationary period" before being allowed to post.

Uh, that would be me: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1662832/posts?page=20#20

I think anybody who signed up before about 1999 should be free to post.

Your thoughts?

[WhiteGuy]

This is just my ever-so-humble opinion........

I might speculate that a fair number of the "zottable" posts are probably posted by rank and file dedicated freepers who feel the need to "stir up" the faithful by creating a rallying point of a totally unacceptable and vulgar proclamation. Consider the feeding frenzies that result - several dozen freepers vie for the coveted "ibtz", and sometimes hundreds come forth to "pile on" a seemingly "helpless liberal" who has mistakenly wandered into the vastly superior freeper world. Yes indeed, it makes perfect sense.

[Washi]

Many here agree with you. However, many more enjoy posting their "funny" zot graphics, and the feelings of inclusion and superiority that come with piling on in a zot thread. All that fun without having to actually think and debate.

It won't change.