Happy New Year from the Moderator Staff and our New Year's Resolutions

12-31-03 | Admin Moderator

[Admin Moderator]

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It’s the start of a New Year, and with that I’d like to give you all my New Year’s Resolutions with respect to Free Republic. Are there any New Year’s Resolutions you’d like to make for the benefit of FR? Some examples that come to mind are, fewer personal attacks. Debate the message, don’t personally attack the poster. Maybe your resolution will be to post fewer vanities, or to post vanities to chat. Another resolution might be to search prior to posting threads. Whatever you might strive to do for Free Republic, let us know. Maybe you’d like to make amends with a certain poster. Give it a shot.

My personal New Year's Resolution to Free Republic:

I’d like to be better at answering your questions via mail and pings. We do get busy, and sometimes your questions get lost in the sheer volume. So, I’ll resolve to try better to answer your inquiries. If you don’t get an answer in a day or two, please ask again.

Happy New Year, Free Republic! It’s going to be a fun year!

[matrix2225]

Happy New Year and God bless.

[nicmarlo]

sweetliberty, by the time I logged on to FR, the Mod ping list had been edited out...it's now "history." But, if that option is re-edited....I certainly would love to be on a zot ping list, lol! : )

[Carolinamom]

I want on your ping list......PLEASE! Happy New Year on this first day of 2004. Your pay raise is in the mail. LOL

[sweetliberty]

Edited out? What?

[sweetliberty]

"Ever had your knuckles rapped with a keyboard"

LOL! That's gotta hurt!

[sweetliberty]

"I WANT THE POWER TO ZOT."

How about "guest ZOTTER" or ZOTTER for a Day?"

[tongue-tied]

Hopefully not too late...please add me too!

N
HNYFR!!

[nicmarlo]

Read this post, then see where it differs from the original post...the zot ping list ain't in the new post! Maybe you can manage to arm-twist?

[sweetliberty]

Maybe their ZOT ping was getting too hugh and they cut it off. Or maybe the cool mod left and the one with no sense of humor came on duty and the other mods got in trouble.

Why DID you pull that part of the post?

[nicmarlo]

Or maybe the cool mod left and the one with no sense of humor came on duty and the other mods got in trouble.

I think that's got to be IT, sweetliberty....some mods, they're just NO fun! : )

[sfRummygirl]

This is a very strange world you live in.....

[VOA]

Some examples that come to mind are, fewer personal attacks.

Speaking only for myself, here is my "ad hominen" attack policy.

When Attacked:
1. Act Presidential. Follow Honest Abe's policy: write out a stinging rebuke. Enjoy
the superior logic and pointed replies. Put "the letter" into the drawer for
awhile (Lincoln always put them in a desk drawer overnight).
Then imitate Lincoln's example of throwing the hot letters into the trash can: delete it.

2. Fully consider the possiblity (no matter how remote!) that the attacker is right!
Or maybe partly right.

3. If your memory is good enough...recollect that the attacker is someone that you
agreed with 200% on some other thread.

4. Consider that you may be the victim of a mis-addressed missive, or your
adversary is responding to part of your post that was not really clear.

5. Craft a response that's lucid, debates the actual issue at hand, and just
ignore the heat that came your way as much as possible. Be the first to extend
the olive branch. If repulsed, at least you did what you could.


To reduce odds of launching the attack (come on, you know we all do it...or at least
contemplate it at times)
1. Don't do it.
2. If you want to do it, go to another thread. Let your subconsious use the
hot energy to craft a REALLY good repsonse that is right on-point on the issues.
3. Be gentle as possible...if you're like me, you might contemplate flaming on
a "bad day". Try to short-circuit the human impulse to shout at other posters...
when you really are frustrated because you can't shout at the boss, spouse, kids, friends,
jerky neighbor.


Peace on Earth in 2004.
Except for good-natured "rough-and-tumble" at www.freerepublic.com!

Oh, death and confusion to OBL and all his fellow travelers!

[VOA]

Oh, one addendum to my post 312:

Always remember to behave yourself. You're playing in Jim Robinson's sandbox!

[sfRummygirl]

Me too.
I have never made resolutions, because I work on a more daily basis, but I am going to get into a regular bible study this year.

[sfRummygirl]

This girl is not really all that amazing looking, I don't get it. Is it a joke?

Yes. ok, my taste is a little strange, I shouldn't talk, but really....

[NYC GOP Chick]

I don't get it either, but I see her video all the time on MTV2, VH1 Soul, MTV Jams, etc., and it seems like it's some big dirty joke that I don't get.

[dirtboy]

I think you guys should run the forum with an iron fist and exile anyone who disagrees to here.

[Chu Gary]

A very Happy New Year to all y'all. You folks to a great and under-appreciated job, IMHO.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

fewer personal attacks

Up yours, you stupid mod. What the he!! do you know about personal attacks?;-)

BTW, could you add me to that f***ing ping list, please?

[little jeremiah]

Happy, prosperous and blessed New Year to you and all Moderators!

And please add me to your ping list!