If cold fusion articles are posted in the Smoky Backroom, will they get pulled less frequently? FR has had some huge flamewars in the past. I didn’t see those threads get pulled.
You key up on the playful denigration terms such as “luddite” and “seagull”, but when these guys call a freeper “stupid” and a “liar”, that’s not considered personal attacks?
I agree, critiques against Rossi are not a personal attack. It baffles me why a thread would get pulled because someone gets their panties in a wad about insults towards Rossi. He should be fair game until he signs up as a Freeper.
It was the admin moderator who wrote the article that started this “don’t post to me” stuff, and the admin mod said this:
Final note: Trolls, troublemakers, disruptors, forum pests, malcontents, RINOs, liberals, stalkers, et al, would continue posting to (harassing) someone after being asked to stop. Conservative FReepers would not.
“Do not post to me” Free Republic ^ | 8/28/07 | Admin Moderator Posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:47:37 PM by Admin Moderator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1888013/posts
So now you pull threads because of that stuff? In the article you said we should develop a thick skin. You did not say you’d be pulling threads where that approach was used. In the article you pulled I disengaged direct flamebait material more than a dozen times, demonstrating thick skin because of the guidelines you posted.
Beyond that, putting something into the backroom should be a last resort, not a planned flight path for this topic.
And I really don't want to have to come back to this thread. Better things to do on a holiday weekend than babysit chronic whiners.