Jim, fire your moderators now!

[postingprivilegesrevoked]

Jim,

It's your forum so do what you want, but you aren't getting another dime from me until you fire your moderators!

This smells like conspiracy and looks like conspiracy Jim.

Paid or not paid, fire your moderators now!

[HairOfTheDog]

This ain't Watership Down.... "What's really going on" is that some people can't behave like adults and they get banned. The rest of us just enjoy the carnival atmosphere.

[ppaul]

BUMP

[Corin Stormhands]

. The rest of us just enjoy the carnival atmosphere.

Yup, and once you realize that, it's a much easier ride.

[HairOfTheDog]

Yes Corin, but then we are just unwitting drones... Would you like a carrot?

[Grit]

How about Clinton's a lair. She was banned too if you can believe that.

All right, I know she was a she. So it wasn't a case of misrepresentation. What gives?

[VRWC_minion]

Posted by metesky to VRWC_minion On General Interest ^ Jun 12 6:55 PM #666 of 725 ^ What's the matter, Skippy, smoke get in your eyes?

I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. Smokers are really satan.

[Corin Stormhands]

Would you like a carrot?

Am I supposed to have one today?

[HairOfTheDog]

Sure, have a carrot, there seems to be plenty... fillintheblank won't be needing theirs....

[metesky]

Wrong again, VRWC_minion.

Herb Reed and the Platters are satin, not satan.

You're lucky I couldn't find The Robins "Smokey Joe's Cafe". That would've really hurt.
;O)

[metesky]

Duh... (slaps forehead) I catch on no matter how many times I have to re-read.

[KissOfTheSith]

>I've been here about a year, how much has it really changed?
>Think we can make this one hit the big 2,000?

In the old days, this thread would have been bursting with pictures of moose, girls in the shower, and cheese about five hundred posts ago. Now, it's taken almost eight hundred posts just to get Anna to check in!

-- KotS

[Liberal Classic]

I think I understand the cheese and moose, but I don't get the shower thing. I must have missed that thread.

More seriously, there have been some improvements from last year, as well. One stray tag doesn't make the whole thread blink now, and splitting the thread into groups of 50 or 100 is great over slow connections.

[Neets]

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...I can't believe that....No!, it wouldn't be prudent.

[KissOfTheSith]

>More seriously, there have been some improvements from last year, as well. One stray tag doesn't make the whole thread blink now...

Well, in the old days, some Freepers would always go in and close the right tag. Heck, I did it myself any number of times. No problem. That kind of thing just made the site dynamic and interactive.

The problem is more of a community thing.

As Jim said to me back in #540, he and his moderators piss off everyone. But, the problem is, in any population, there are vastly more bogus people than cool people. When you start squashing the good along with the bad -- as the moderators do and as Jim actually brags about -- then in a very short time you've squished all the cool people right out of the picture and you're still left with tons of bogus people...

That's the problem. Not the software. The problem is the narrowing of scope in the discussions, in the ideas, and in the interactions and the people themselves.

-- KotS

[Slip18]

Wow!

[occam's chainsaw]

"No current Freeper by that name."

LOL. I guess that settles that. Buh-bye.

[Always Right]

But, the problem is, in any population, there are vastly more bogus people than cool people. When you start squashing the good along with the bad -- as the moderators do and as Jim actually brags about -- then in a very short time you've squished all the cool people right out of the picture and you're still left with tons of bogus people...

What is a 'bogus' person, and why on earth do you think you are not one?