I agree. I depend on Swordmaker to keep me up to date on all things Mac.
He saves me a lot of time, which I do not have. DH has parkinson’s, and my ‘puter time is limited. Please reconsider pulling the Mac threads.
Free Republic is a noncommercial site and we normally do not allow solicitations, advertisements or sales pitches for products or services. If you post an article which is really nothing more than an advertisement for a product, you shouldn’t be surprised if our moderators pull it. And, no, sorry but Apple product releases are not breaking news on Free Republic.
FR is a real lifeline. We can find people here to vent with when we know that the MSM, far from being a partner in a conversation, aspires to censor us (see McCain-Feingold for an example of an assault sponsored by monopoly AP journalism on our First Amendment freedoms).Even tho we might be able to find people to talk computers with on other sites, here we feel among friends - and, after all, we do all use computers to connect to FR. So it's natural to want to be able to talk about mutual interests which are not directly political, with people who are comfortable FRiends.
But we have to know that it is ultimately JimRob's site, and FR will be moderated (edited) according to his standards and for the audience he wants to attract.
Anyone who troubled to examine "find in forum" on me would quickly realize that I spend a lot of time on this site, and can readily imagine that I would hate to lose any FRiend I have here, and I would hate to lose the interesting discussions of technology generally and of Apple products in particular. In the immortal words of a famous American, "Can't we all just get along?"