My 'help' posts are removed from forum rapidly

[joanil]

More woe. When I present a post asking for help or technical assistance I post in 'tech'/announcements/activism. I get the most help in the first few minutes after my post has been posted to the list. About five minutes later, my help post has vanisished from the freeper front page. My post is then relegated to the vast darkness of 'general interest' or something like that, which nobody ever visits.

If you ain't on the front page of Freeper, then your questions will definetely go unanswered.

Hey, I got some real good technical problems that need lots of help! Why not leave my post on the main screen for at least one hour before relegating it to the dungeons of Freep? This way I could get some good help with my questions.

Fellow freepers are so willing to help a fallen comrade with computer trouble, if only that 'help request' post stay available for more than five minutes before a forum administrator dispatches it to the murky depths of the never read/never visited gray area!

Hey, give me a break, huh?

Is not this the reason we are here to begin with? To help and seek help from fellow conservatives?

[Arkie2]

Those guys are part of the in crowd. You're not one of them. They're innies. You're an outie. ;^)

[joanil]

truly!

[joanil]

Un-uh. I am an innie! Perhaps they are upset becuase they are outies!

[joanil]

Wow, I am still on the front page!
Hang on while I gather up my tech question before I am relegated to the "non smoking back room"

[PaulJ]

Is not this the reason we are here to begin with? To help and seek help from fellow conservatives?

Nope. From FR:
"Most of the visitors to the Free Republic website are attracted to our very popular (and addictive) conservative forum for two basic reasons: First, this is a fast moving forum where you can often find breaking news and up to the minute updates. But, most importantly, visitors are encouraged to comment on the news of the day here, and especially to contribute whatever information they may have to help others better understand a particular story."

[shuckmaster]

You need help.

[joanil]

I'm still here! The stars that would be have finally listened!
But when I post a series tech question my post will vanish to the freeper netherworld...just watch and see!

[joanil]

Exactly! Thats why I asked for some! Thanks for the astute observation!

[joanil]

blah

[joanil]

language...............
Administrators present?

[Principled]

WHile it is obviously important to maintain the news function of the front page, there are at least a gazillion headlines listed there. I only look at those that have been posted recently.

Why not have a spot in the right-hand side bar for other areas with say the latest 5 posts? One for tech, one for books, one for ....

Except for the last 25 posts, the space in the side bar is mostly wasted, imo.

[firewalk]

call them...

[csvset]

The website's blah?

[SuperSonic]

This post has been up for over an hour now. How much longer will it be here???

[joanil]

I am not a 'visitor' any more than you are. I am a member.
Please bear that in mind.

[Admin Moderator]

Hello. I just noticed your post. Requests for help are not activism. Why you would think they are is not clear to me. It is not proper to use the announcements topic to announce that you do not know how to do something. Tech is for discussing technical news and their effect on society, not for discussing how to fix your computer. A few times we have let your posts stay in the main forum until you got an answer. That will not be the case any longer.

I notice that you signed up almost a year ago, but did not start posting until recently. Welcome to the world of more frequent posters. I also notice that on quite a few tech threads not posted by you that had been moved to General Interest, you found them and contributed to them. So I think you can have a bit more faith that those who want to find such threads will. Also, you can always email for help to someone you see on one of the tech threads who appears to know what they are doing. If you don't make a pest of yourself, I am sure you will get some assistance.

But please stop using our main forum as your personal help desk. It is not for it. Thanks, AM

[joanil]

as long as it takes.......
too bad I can not get this kind of response with a legitimate tech question.........
ridicule seems to be the forte of the day
help of fellow members is just not the mainstay

[joanil]

problem is.... you are probably them.... therefore the dilemma......

[Admin Moderator]

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