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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: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Don't you know it! I only wish I had 1/1,000 th. of the power, these people ascribe to me. :-)
941 posted on 03/15/2004 9:32:49 PM PST by nopardons
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To: little jeremiah
You were banned and have come back as somebody else?
942 posted on 03/15/2004 9:32:54 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Tamsey
They are into incest too?
943 posted on 03/15/2004 9:34:05 PM PST by Texasforever (I apologize in advance)
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To: I Am Not A Mod
If you think something stinks or is wrong, make your case here

I think John F. Kerry Stinks.

Fact: His wife owns a Ketchup Factory and not a Deodorant Factory.

Fact 2: If it were the other way around, you could be putting Right Guard on your french fries.

944 posted on 03/15/2004 9:34:34 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army and Proud of it!!)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
What do you mean by "some of the attributes of stalkers"? Some of them STALK me here almost every day!
945 posted on 03/15/2004 9:34:40 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Texasforever

Are we having fun yet?
I need to know.
946 posted on 03/15/2004 9:35:06 PM PST by onyx (Kerry' s a Veteran, but so were Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh and Benedict Arnold.)
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To: I Am Not A Mod
Yeah, I got five gripes:

1. Can the stuff in the right hand area of the articles page be dated? Some of that stuff is two or three weeks old. Or maybe the stuff could just "disappear" after, say, four days?

2. Need a full text search engine.

3. Duplicate posts drive me crazy. Wish there was some way of trapping them before they get posted. 14 versions of an Ann Coulter piece is amusing, but a horrible waste of storage space and bandwidth.

4. Lazy FReepers who won't post the entire article when the article does not have to be excerpted.

5. Could you somehow encourage FReepers, when posting an excerpted article, to link to the "printer friendly" version of the article? Many of us are stuck in 56K dialup hell (in fact, I bet if you took a survey, you'd find most of us have dialup) and the printer friendly version loads much quicker as it typically doesn't have 67 ads averaging 27KB each and five pop-up windows :)

947 posted on 03/15/2004 9:36:09 PM PST by upchuck (I am upchuck and I approved this message because... well, just because.)
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To: Tamsey
Tamsey,
I've heard of Tupperware parties,
but the sheep might be a new thang
especially for the LP'ers.
948 posted on 03/15/2004 9:36:41 PM PST by onyx (Kerry' s a Veteran, but so were Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh and Benedict Arnold.)
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To: nopardons
Yeah, me too. I'm the most powerful, influential FreeRepublic nobody I've ever heard about. LOL
949 posted on 03/15/2004 9:37:54 PM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet ("Lashing out" at Democrats since 1990.)
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To: Lead Moderator
You missed my point. Occasionally I look at other forums. I found those threads on private property on the Liberty Caucus Forum. I'm asking that you increase the seriousness with which you take intelligent threads and put them back in the news forum. Surely you cannot think that those belong in the backrooms when you justify the absolute idiocy that parades as "news" for lack of a better word on the regular forum. I never believed you should divide FreeRepublic into forums, just for this reason...There is no rhyme or reason to your placements, which just generates griping, like this. Anyway, I realize that my request won't be acted upon, so no need to reply.
950 posted on 03/15/2004 9:39:07 PM PST by The Westerner
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To: nopardons
you have freepmail
951 posted on 03/15/2004 9:39:14 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (Much of your pain is self-chosen. --- Kahlil Gibran)
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To: Tamsey
Thank you. I can't tell you how very much I appreciate that. :-)
952 posted on 03/15/2004 9:39:44 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Texasforever
Whooops, you're right... I forgot.

Think they share DNA with cows, too?


953 posted on 03/15/2004 9:40:06 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: onyx
Are we having fun yet?

I haven't had this much fun since the hogs ate my little brother.

954 posted on 03/15/2004 9:40:28 PM PST by Texasforever (I apologize in advance)
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To: Senator Pardek
I am a lady, you are NO gentleman, but you are a poltroon.
955 posted on 03/15/2004 9:40:48 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Howlin
I was making a complaint to the Moderators about why they tolerate his homo-promoting and bashing of scripter. My points were directed to them. They asked for complaints.
956 posted on 03/15/2004 9:41:40 PM PST by little jeremiah (...men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: nopardons
It was just the facts, ma'am ;-)
957 posted on 03/15/2004 9:42:25 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: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet; Texasforever
Texasforever
Well this old "biddie" can stomp a Texas sized mudhole in you and eat lunch at the same time.

______________________________________


You left off "I've got chunks of guys like you in my stool."
906 -DOAIJV-


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Please stop! -- My wife is concerned that my laughter may be heard by the neighbors.

Thank you 'Vet' babe. That was the greatest put down I've ever seen tex suffer from all his phony blustering over the years.

Great stuff..



958 posted on 03/15/2004 9:44:51 PM PST by tpaine (I'm trying to be 'Mr Nice Guy' by ignoring those who annoy me. It isn't working. To many RINO)
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To: tpaine; Texasforever
Uh, I wasn't insulting Tex. I was trying my hand at enhancing his reply. (Not that he ever needs any help. He's one of the best.)
959 posted on 03/15/2004 9:46:57 PM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet ("Lashing out" at Democrats since 1990.)
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To: I Am Not A Mod
My YaYas are fine and dandy, thank you, no complaints here. You all do an incredible job given the number and wide range of passionate opinions here :-)

And You Are Too A Mod

960 posted on 03/15/2004 9:47:59 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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