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First, your son's computer problems aren't huge in the scope of the FR mission, to remove liberals from power. Because FR has become so huge, we have posters who ask questions and just want to 'talk', aka, son's programming trouble. How does that equate to removing liberal senators or congressman from office? Or nominating conservative judges? See the difference? We are trying to accommodate everyone. But, the primary focus of Free Republic is removing liberals from power.

We are trying to accommodate everyone by providing the chat and bloggers forums. We are a family, and we sometimes tangent to other topics, aka, my son, but that is not our primary goal. Hence the different forums. Many think the other forums are a banishment, but that's not so. Anyone can set their setting to the 'browse all' settings located at the top right hand side of any latest threads or posts page.

In the old days, it was fine having everyone post everything to one forum, but as technology changes, so must we. It is no longer feasible, first with the number of posters, second with the advent of blogs, etc. We have to categorize. Some are pissed about that. Then again, some were pissed about bringing in mods. Sorry to say, if we weren't here, Jim would be working 43/7, and wouldn't be able to take a road trip to visit different chapters. He totally deserves some time to vacation. FR is too big for one man today.

So, Jim and John have provided areas for those topics to be discussed, we move threads based upon current events criteria. The primary focus of FR is to remove liberals from power and restore our constitution, sorry to say, your son's computer troubles aren't high on that priority list.

I understand the mission of FR. What I don't (didn't) understand is if it's OK to post a vanity *in the appropriate place* about my son's computer program, for example. Or are vanities (placed in General Interest/Chat) supposed to be somehow related to FR's mission also? I understand completely (and always have) that they don't belong in any of the news sections. But, can we post anything we'd like in the General Interest category? I'm still not sure. If I'm not mistaken, I think I've gotten in "trouble" or seen others get in trouble for posting vanities in the General Interest section. I do understand the need to conserve bandwidth, so I am not complaining about this. I just want to know what's OK. I'm not a bigtime poster in the first place.

Thank you for helping.