By-the-way, if I, or ctdonath2, responded to that line of thinking, winner3000, there would be no Apple Ping list anymore on Freerepublic. Ctdonath2 was referring to the fact that there are 700 members of the Apple Ping list who do not look on Apple threads as advertising Apple. . . which is what the Apple hate brigade members have chosen to characterize EVERY Apple thread as being.
Whether you as an individual member of the ping list are interested or not in any particular thread is irrelevant to the overall fact that the other members of the list may be interested in that thread. i don't poll the members of the ping list before posting any article to find out if they are interested or not first. . . Nor do I go with majority opinion on such things. I trust the members to self-select the threads in which they are interested to read and participate on their own. They are adults and can choose on their own to ignore something in which they aren't interested.
It is these Apple Hate Brigade Freepers who would prefer to ban all Apple threads completely, that act like Liberal socialist activists, shouting down anything they don't like, by, in this instance, filing all Apple threads with unpleasant, irrelevant posts about the threads being advertising for Apple, or that frequent pro-Apple posters are paid shills for Apple, or repeatedly posting in every thread about how they wouldn't buy one, or repeatedly asking the same, already and repeatedly answered, questions. Frankly, winner3000, it gets quite tiresome from the same repeat offenders whose purpose is juvenile disruption and throwing brickbats.
Oops, I referred to you in the previous post and neglected to ping you. Sorry about that.