I’m not sure about redirect hell, but it does seem like FreeRepublic is turning into blog hell. I mean this not as a criticism of you specifically, but it seems the forum is now dominated by personal bloggers posting “articles” from their own blog. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this, I suppose, but they used to be vanities, and could be evaluated as such.
BTW--I have never heard of "Pingdom" before seeing this.
Yes, bloggers have become the bane of FR. Especially those who think their every thought or rehashed version of an old news story belongs under “news” and not “bloggers” and worse, they think their precious thoughts need to be excerpted down to a half sentence.
That’s where Pimpbusters comes in.....