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This cure is worse than the disease the whiners complain about: "Having to see posts that are dumb." They don't have to click on them and read them, it just cheeses them off to see that they exist in the first place. And now, to placate the whiners, I'm going to have to have open and refreshed umpteen windows if I like to observe more than one forum.

To continue the discussion from the Yahoo forum...I disagree. It isn't that I think vanity posts are beneath me, I just like defaulting to only news/serious commentary. When I have extra time on my hands, I'll go searching for some lighter threads. But generally, what has made FR most worthwhile to me is the idea of one-stop shopping for all the latest news. The sheer volume of vanity replies makes that extremely difficult as of late.

Just thought I'd provide the opposing view. Regards.

We had that at one time, but it was insufficient to stop the complaining.

You used to be able to filter certain topics, like vanities, so that they would not show up at all. However, that would require someone to actually set it up, and that's much to technical for some folks. Their solution is to just isolate the "stupid" posts somewhere that they don't ever have to even see.

This will amount to dumbing down the whole forum as we try to appeal to the whiners among us. This WILL endanger funds, as I've already had some folks FReepmail me about their "buyer's remorse" from having donated money last week.

Well, that's just dandy for you. Meanwhile, we all have to be inconvenieinced for the people who are unable to search or simply IGNORE silly threads. Personally, I would like a separate category for Bush-bashers, so that I don't have to look at those threads!! I would never seriously request that, but that is similar to what is happening here.

I am ticked off because America the Right Way, which used to be USA vs. Clinton, and is the LONGEST RUNNING DAILY THREAD ON THIS FORUM, has been relegated to the same category as Britney Spears latest flapdoodle, all because of WHINERS!!

ATRW provides links to stories from overnight postings, links to the top stories in the Washington Times, weather bulletins, recipes, gardening tips, financial market information, alerts for breaking news on television, commentary on speeches and news conferences, and other interesting information.

It is NOT a vanity post, and I am getting more and more steamed about this.