I recall when Ransomnote posted a message in the general boards inviting people to join her “Ping” list for people interested in Q, just a day or so, possibly only HOURS after the very first appearance of Q in October 2017.
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It really feels that way, Dis, but it’s the miles, not the years! :D
My profile page contains an index of our threads. I just checked and see that it’s not quite right (correction to make) but it looks like those of us posting Q threads all threw in together around the end of January 2018.
I had been agonized, fearful that I seemed to be watching the little candle of hope, the Q movement, flicker as it seemed to be going out, (just my impression) so I begged God to give me any tiny little task, “Please let me do something to help! PLEASE!”
Many of us started posting threads independently late October to late Nov of 2017. We were being independently overrun by trolls, and we were struggling not to duplicate post. Swordmaker suggested I post a thread asking if people wanted to join a ping list. I asked bitt, “what’s a ping a list?” and if ping lists had any moving parts.
I would have been shocked to have 20 people ask to join the first ping. There were hundreds. *pauses to imagine how many lurkers we have*. It took me a few days just to collect the names out of emails and on thread. Even more shocking, people asked me questions; apparently some thought it was “mine” and that I had knowledge to support them. Since so many asked me questions, then I started asking them (how to do things) and that’s how my role morphed into Question/answer interaction.
So of those who started posting prior to the ping list a week or more after Q emerged, any may have started a ping list; there was no selection process. I’m rather wistful on days when I wonder what today’s threads would be like with grey_whiskers posting them! :D I think they’d be great, and it would be DIFFERENT!
We had to fight hard to keep our threads and when Q was active and shills attacking, many FReeQs were posting around the clock - so I would see ours in full combat with shills when I logged on at 4:00am.
It was a different type of shill back then; more sustained, tireless, aggression required (their strategy: battle of attrition/dilution). That wasn’t my skill set at all, but I was trying as were many other FReeQs. Bagster seemed to be in his element in that field of battle (*knowing glance*), but even he had to sleep sometimes.
One night, I was so exhausted, wondering if they would ultimately win because our threads were becoming too heavily diluted with combat to be worth reading. Trolls had fresh replacements and we didn’t. That night, a key reinforcement showed up. A FReepers known as Cbolt. Completely fresh for the fight and in full possession of the lethal weapon of lawyerly logic. I would later ask bagster, “Who WAS that guy!?” The enemy was stunned, bagster started getting some sleep, and the rest of us saw more return on our efforts. There were many others who waded in to support our threads at the right time - and many of those are not names you might recognize.
All this to say that I was never the only one, probably wasn’t the first on FR, was never selected (just fell into it - following prayer), didn’t work harder than others, and without the work of so many, we never would have made it through. WWG1WGA
Okay, here is the historic FIRST POST of the ping list:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3623088/posts?page=1#1
HOWEVER, I can push it back to 2017:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3617460/posts?page=9#1
My memory still says proto-FReeQs were following from approximately DAY 1 (late October 2017). I can’t think of how else I would have found out about it if it weren’t from FR.
You have done a magnificent job of giving us a “home” where it is mostly safe to learn and share. Others have helped and all of you are so needed and appreciated by us mostly lurkers.
near as I can figure, I got pinged by bitt 12/27/2017. Not sure why unless i was sniffin around “Q” earlier.
“Q”-Anon threads, like heroin, the first hit is free, the next one is five bucks (or so I’ve read)
I’ve even given up abovetopsecret as Freepers were the firstest with the mostest.
Now that I’m in I can’t get out and I don’t want to.
Too many outstanding citizens with expertise and connections and knowledge far beyond my pay grade.
This is what home-schooling should be.
glad to be included and tolerated,
Can’t begin to begin to thank you for all you’ve done over 2+ years!
It’s been so enlightening and your recap brought back so many memories.
Hope you’re feeling good and whatever caught up with you is now gone
Ransomnote thanks for the walk down memory lane. I would like to add something that should be mentioned. Some of those attacks were being done by deep state shills. They had lots of reinforcements. But we have truth on our side and wouldn’t quit.
As I look back I believe they had two objectives. First, to try to shut the Q thread down outright. The other was to stir up divisions and animosity against those of us who believed Q’s message.
They utterly failed in the first and we’ve been enduring the remnants of the second. I also think that bitt’s meme, of seeing eggs on their face, will become a reality very soon.
(to quote an old freeper - just my two cents)
Your the best ransomnote!
We appreciate all you do!
Thanks, Ransomnote!
2 names I haven’t seen in a while - Swordmaker and Cbolt.
You are the best!
Wwg1wga.
WWG1WGA!!!! nicely written!! ah, the early days!!
Destiny. Thanks again Honored MOD!