Posted on 03/02/2009 5:40:01 AM PST by ODDITHER
Once a year I make a post to get to know the Newbies and find out about the oldbie Freepers.
This year with all the chaotic seriousness we are facing I thought to add one more question to my standard old ones.
They are simple questions yet complex.
1. Where did you come from? 2. How long have you been here? 3. What is it that keeps you coming back. 4. What is your Pet Peeve?
That was back in the days of slow connections and barebones web sit. Thank you Jim for all the great enhances you have made.
Gone are the days of waiting for a post to load for 5 minutes and longer if it had pictures included. Gone are the days of being without FreeRepublic and really slow response times when something big was happening. if the server was down or they had to do maintenance. Gone are the days of the post patrol. Who were self appointed Post hall Monitors that ratted you out and complained about everything. Any one remember Quidam? What person that got banned did you find frustrating? Gone are the freepers who were self appointed professors of grammatical errors. What keeps me coming back is more complex. Mainly it is the Wesite itself. Where else could you go to read articles from newspapers from all over the world that are of particular interest to conservatives. Where else could you communicate with conservatives from all over the world.
Pet peeves: Those who feel they are self appointed evanglists and need to point out every post how Mormons aren't Christians etc etc. they can't just confine themselves to the topic at hand. Those same freepers do not have the level of passion when agnostic or atheist consveratives share their views. CS Lewis is right - the Devil loves keeping religious people fighting among themselves.
People who use Loose instead of lose. Not because it is an error but because it takes reading the sentence more than once to figure out which word it should be.
The new commercials put out by the Union and Characters count. What liberal drivel that is. The commercials are set so loud that I have to keep the clicker nearby to mute the sound, and on some channels they are shown 5 times a show.
Democrats in general but especially those who feel they know what All Americans think and believe. The more divided the issue the more they use the "The American people want us to ......"
Drug commercials in general but those for ED and STDs in particular. Who in their right mind would take any of the drugs they push on television after the disclaimer= "In some cases it could cause death".
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I came from AOL.
I have been here about 20 minutes now.
My pet peeve is the new folks who insist on < s > tags.
My old pet peeve was folks who didn’t close their tags and the rest of the thread was in italians.
Seriously, I heard about a rally outside of Lieberman’s house here in CT on the radio. I did a search and it came up with a thread from FR. I have been here ever since.
1. The Land of Pleasant Living
2. 29 November 2000 (lurked for a year before hand)
3. I’m addicted.
4. Consocialism (Conservative Socialism)
I got here in 1998 as well. It was a wonderful time, I had no idea until I got here how many like-minded individuals were frustrated with Clinton.
Remember the constant posting of BTT (back to top) to try and get visibility of specific threads :)
In many ways it is the same again, here we are with a president who is stirring the conservative silent majority.
My pet peeve is vanities that have no value or are not well thought out. I have no problem with someone spending 30 or more minutes to write a multi-paragraph well thought out viewpoint or opinion and posting it as an article. I hate one liners and threads that fill up with one liners.
Since August of '07
What is it that keeps you coming back?
I'm a news jumkie
What is your Pet Peeve?
The posting of the same stories over and over again.
Huh?
1.Friggin newb vanities
2.Is there a "banned freeper" list?
3.I miss the "Ash Alerts"
4. My best bookmarks don't work anymore
I could go on...
jumkie=junkie
“The Land of Pleasant Living” ?
Baltimore?
Been a freeper since 97. Have been reading and many times a day ever since. Love it.
My biggest pet peeve is FReepers that “put words in my post”. In other words, assume they know what I am thinking and know my political philosophy after a one line post.
1} Drudge Report, Whitewater Files link
2} Nov 5,1998
3} Like minded folks, informed commentary and jovial friendships :-)
4} Folks who can’t agree to disagree
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
2. How long have you been here?
Since 16 July 1998.
3. What is it that keeps you coming back?
My desire to always know The Latest.
4. What is your Pet Peeve?
Grammatical errors such as "here, here", "tow the line", "alot", etc.
1. Classified
2. Classidied
3. Classidied
4. Classified
Just outside of .....
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