I haven’t come into your threads that often...do you get people like some I see on this thread all the time? Reading the posts, I get the impression they follow you around.
Yeah, they do.
Unfortunately, yes. Same few, less than about half-a dozen members of the Anti-Apple Hate Brigade, and they do it, all the time, in every Apple thread, and are not above attacking me in non-Apple threads.
They have made it a mission to constantly denigrate Apple products and attack me. They will even post Anti-Apple articles for that purposes and bait people who like Apple products. . . and ping me to them.
They REFUSE to believe that there is an Apple ping list with over 700 Freeper members and continually attack me, claiming that I am paid by Apple to post on FR for the purpose of selling Apple products. As far as I know, Apple doesn't employ such marketing techniques, but Samsung actively does do astroturfing advertising and has been caught at it (the largest percentage of their marketing budget is spent this way), and Microsoft invented it and I doubt they have given up on it. I have told them repeatedly that I am not paid by anyone and am actually independent of any need for such income. Yet they incessantly POUND that meme. JR has told them as far as he is concerned Apple threads are OK and sees no evidence that I post advertising for Apple. . . but they have appointed themselves the protectors of FreeRepublic sanctity.
They've been repeatedly slapped down for their behavior, but they keep it up. That makes ME think they are the ones being paid for their efforts.