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Get Yer Ya-Yas Out [FR Moderating Gripe Thread]

Posted on 03/15/2004 11:01:45 AM PST by I Am Not A Mod

Edited on 03/15/2004 11:03:07 AM PST by Lead Moderator. [history]

LM here.

It's been a while since we had a thread along these lines.

I can tell from comments I am seeing in threads, on abuse reports, and in Freepmail that some people are unhappy with various policies and their implementations by the staff here.

I've seen allegations that certain factions are picked on. I've seen allegations that the moderators have killed activism. I've heard rumors that we killed Kenny, and even that we killed the radio star. I see certain personality conflicts acting up, and know that one (or both) sides in it feel that we aren't doing what we should.

So let's open this can of worms.

This thread is for making your grievances heard. If you think something stinks or is wrong, make your case here. Back it up with facts. Let the audience at large weigh in on your evidence.

I'll read the thread. Jim will too in all likelihood. So will the other moderators. Depending upon how well you make your point, and depending on if you can convince Jim, me, the other moderators, and/or the world, maybe you can change things. And if you don't, then it might make you feel better to have vented, so it won't make this thread a total loss.

I'm not going to reply to this thread for quite a while. Rather, I am going to sit back and watch to try and get a feel for the general tenor. I encourage those who are both happy and unhappy with things to particpate in this thread.

Let's rock.


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To: Tamsey
Don't you have a girlfriend to inflate?

Yes, plenty of girlfriends, but they all seem to...let's say...die. Bawhahahahahahaha......

1,041 posted on 03/15/2004 10:34:28 PM PST by scot-free junior (Been here, more or less, since 1999. That is, until the cultists took over....)
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To: Texasforever
I wanted to go to bed at 10:00, but you are in rare form tonight, and I can't tear myself away. LOL
1,042 posted on 03/15/2004 10:35:32 PM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet ("Lashing out" at Democrats since 1990.)
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To: tpaine
You got these FReep creeps pegged kiddo. Keep up the good work.

The goupie in an endless search for a group. Sad.

1,043 posted on 03/15/2004 10:35:53 PM PST by Texasforever (I apologize in advance)
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To: Tamsey
Heheh.
1,044 posted on 03/15/2004 10:35:55 PM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet ("Lashing out" at Democrats since 1990.)
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To: Trinity_Tx
That was months ago!I felt like I'd jumped in the frying pan!
1,045 posted on 03/15/2004 10:36:09 PM PST by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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To: onyx
LP sure is stupid.

Think of it this way, onyx. Cutting and pasting 24/7 keeps them off the streets.

1,046 posted on 03/15/2004 10:37:14 PM PST by Carolinamom (Currently re-programming my thinking to positive mode.)
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To: Willie Green; Lead Moderator; brityank
LOL. Yeah right. I followed the links back to the thread and your post in question. A poster starts an activsm thread where he's encouraging people to take action and speak out against the liberal biased media and Democrat lying and you come in and splat a big old Democrat talking point propaganda turd smack dab into the middle of the thread. Why should you (or any other DUh disruptor) be allowed to disrupt our activism projects? Do you have a special government equal time permit or something? Do you also show up on the leftist side of our street rallies and protests?
1,047 posted on 03/15/2004 10:38:13 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: Tamsey
Good shot to scot free!
1,048 posted on 03/15/2004 10:38:18 PM PST by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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To: Carolinamom

LOL-
Up early, aren't you?
1,049 posted on 03/15/2004 10:38:22 PM PST by onyx (Kerry' s a Veteran, but so were Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh and Benedict Arnold.)
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To: scot-free junior




HEMLOCK IS JUST ANOTHER OF MY MANY HANDLES. WE ARE LEGION!!!!

Where have I heard that before?


1,050 posted on 03/15/2004 10:38:45 PM PST by Sabertooth
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
I wanted to go to bed at 10:00, but you are in rare form tonight, and I can't tear myself away. LOL

Well with straight( pure speculation) men like this, Henry Kissenger could keep you in stitches.

1,051 posted on 03/15/2004 10:40:06 PM PST by Texasforever (I apologize in advance)
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To: Senator Pardek
"debutante" status...PING!
1,052 posted on 03/15/2004 10:40:09 PM PST by LurkerNoMore!
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To: Sabertooth
Eris?
1,053 posted on 03/15/2004 10:41:24 PM PST by Texasforever (I apologize in advance)
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To: onyx
Haven't been down yet...This thread has kept me laughing. I was afraid to butt in and break up the flow of bon mots.LOL
1,054 posted on 03/15/2004 10:42:35 PM PST by Carolinamom (Currently re-programming my thinking to positive mode.)
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To: MEG33; nopardons
I've skimmed the thread and there doesn't seem to be much to catch up on... some various whining about rules, technical requests, and then the usual panties-in-a-twist posters trying to get Mods to take sides in personal wars ;-)
1,055 posted on 03/15/2004 10:44:03 PM PST by Tamzee ( It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. - J. Swift)
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To: Sabertooth; Amelia
Saber,you were really reachin' for the comparison to bitchin' about the NYT,ABCCBSNBC compared to going to discussion sites and cross posting ,insulting one site and posters on another.I hate that.

Posting on many sites is just dandy,though.(I can't keep up with but one)....;)
1,056 posted on 03/15/2004 10:48:03 PM PST by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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To: Tamsey
Sounds familiar. I did notice some cowgirl,cowboy putdowns that are worth remembering!
1,057 posted on 03/15/2004 10:49:59 PM PST by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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To: Trinity_Tx
I sent you ONE, count 'em ONE FREEPmail and it was NOT about getting the thread pulled, Truth be known, it was about hitting the abuse button, on someone who had made scathing,baseless attacks And no, NOT on me.

I only attacked with FACTS, FACTS ALONE, when you wrote me a FREEPmail telling me that I should get off the thread and that you KNEW that you were overstepping the bounds, but rattled on some more, about how YOU didn't like my " tone". This is paraphrasing, so don't even attempt to say that I've put words into your mouth.

The antiMasons were hammering away, throwing out personal insults, attacking ALL Masons, living and dead, cherry-picking and blasphemously post scripture, but you attacked me and still are. Well, pet, this is no tea party, once the thread got hauled into the smokey backroom, all gloves came off and now I know just WHO got my awfully innocent, benign posts pulled and they were in response to another's poster's replies to me, that was just catching up with. I was NOT harassing anyone, nor going after them. I was REPLYING TO POSTS DIRECTED TO ME !

You don't like the rough and tumble way I reply? TOUGH! I give back what I get but usually more mannerly and civil, than what's thrown at me.You had NO problem, whatsoever, with anyone on the other side and their posts.But someone on YOUR side? Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh, how FRENCH of you.I, most assuredly would NOT want you on MY side again, in any debate, or anything else, for that matter.

You are a sniveling liar! I use caps to make a point;you don't likes caps? TOUGH! I was more civil, in my last note to you, than you were to me, in your unctuous letter to me.

You aren't sorry about airing "dirty laundry" at all. This is your MO !

You misrepresented EVERYTHING, that took place on that thread.You've lied and had the unmitigated gall to tell the people who KNOW ME WELL,that they don't know what I am like and to imply that they're standing up for me is uncalled for,because I don't deserve it. HOW DARE YOU !

You don't want any "nastiness",but you sure can sling it, in what you imagine to be a "couth" way.

1,058 posted on 03/15/2004 10:50:07 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Texasforever
Well, I don't have to stoop to making remarks like yours tex, if that's what you mean..

Ah Tpaine I have to stoop to get to your level otherwise you would have no one to talk to.

Tex, I have more discussions on actual political subjects in one day than you have in a week.
-- In fact, you gave up on honest political discussions with me the night you admitted that CA could prohibit assault weapons under 'states rights' powers. There was something strange in your stool that night too.

1,059 posted on 03/15/2004 10:51:04 PM PST by tpaine (I'm trying to be 'Mr Nice Guy' by ignoring those who annoy me. It isn't working. To many RINOBut if)
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To: Trinity_Tx
Why don't YOU?
1,060 posted on 03/15/2004 10:51:58 PM PST by nopardons
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