Posted on 07/20/2021 9:10:36 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Today is my two-year anniversary of signing up for an account on Free Republic and posting a comment.
I realize this perhaps is nothing to brag about considering the number of vanity posts by Freepers about their 20-year anniversaries. However, consider also that in order to remain vibrant, a site like FR needs new blood as well as loyal long-termers.
To this end, I am calling on lurkers to de-lurk and take the plunge, get an account, and start posting. Many of you may have come close to doing so at one time because you saw something you wanted to respond to. Maybe you had an answer to a question or important insight to offer a discussion because of what you do for a living or where you live.
I had lurked, on and off, for over a decade. This post is finally the one that inspired me to de-lurk:
Part One, My #Walkaway Introductory Post. 07-21-2019 | DGravalloni
Posted on 7/21/2019, 6:38:05 PM by DGravalloni
Part One, My #Walkaway Introductory Post.
07-21-2019 | DGravalloni
Posted on 7/21/2019, 6:38:05 PM by DGravalloni
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3765704/posts
My #Walkaway Introduction Post Part Two
07/22/2019 | DGravalloni
Posted on 7/22/2019, 7:22:32 PM by DGravalloni
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3765976/posts
Not a bad post to bring you out into the light.
Post something meaningful like
Election was stolen. What are the updates ?
The vaccine industry is pure evil and fraudulent! What to counter it
Evil lawlessness Murder. Mayhem. Killing babies. Is on the rise
How to counter it
Etc
Cheers ! Truth over power
Signed
USC (Member since 1998)
I’ve posted my share of such stuff. Some would say more than my share and that I have posted too much.
I have a better idea. Donate money. This site is ad free so We The People keep the lights on.
One can both post and donate.
I posted replies on my first visit... 23 yrs ago, and pretty much everyday since.
Nothing to be bashful about. Everyone post away... We’ll sort it out.
I found FR while looking for some sanity after 9/11/01. Finally joined in 2004, but have been a “lurker” for the most part. FR occupies probably 75% of my time on-line. It’s an amazing and irreplaceable resource.
Although it’s not required, it’s nice to make a small donation (or large) to pay for a vanity post.
You will be surprised how many of the lurkers are leftards from left wing websites, news organizations and various “watchdog” groups. If they posted here they would get zotted in a nanosecond which is always great to watch.
Same here. Ever since 9/11, and I (was) canadian. Being here proved one point at least: those who protested the Iraq War were morons and anti-Americans. The real reason why canadians burned American flags had nothing to do with the war..it was their centuries old jealousy towards their rich neighbors and this was their time to vent and pile on.
I know there are a lot of those.
I tell people whenever I get a chance about Free Republic, some of whom have asked me where I learned about such and such tidbit of information I have given them.
Maybe some of these people are now the lurkers of whom I speak.
It’s amazing how many conservatives I have run into who have never heard of this site.
Interesting,
I didn’t donate
In 2014.
.
Must have been abducted
Or something.
Where’s your post on the UserScript kungfu?
Thank you.
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