FREEREPUBLIC RECORDS HIGHEST EVER NEW SIGNUPS ON SEP 16, 2004 - WELCOME NEWBIES!

Freerepublic.com ^ | September 18, 2004 | nwrep

[nwrep]

The ongoing controversy over the fake CBS documents and the prominent role played in shedding the light on this by Freerepublic.com has caused an unprecendented surge in new memberships on the website.

Thursday, September 16, 2004 should be remembered as a landmark day for this website. On that day, more new users signed up on Freerepublic.com than on any single day before.

Click here for a running tally of daily new signups that the website keeps.

The 390 users signed up on the website eclipsed sign-up spikes caused during other newsworthy events, such as the Florida recount during the 2000 election, and the events of September 11, 2001.

The name of the website has been publicized widely in many media outlets as the source of the first revelation that the CBS memos were forgeries.

According to web traffic tracking site Alexa, Freerepublic.com has shown a remarkable increase in traffic over the last few weeks, as shown below:

Note from founders of the website: Free Republic is an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. In our continuing fight for freedom, for America and our constitution and against totalitarianism, socialism, tyranny, terrorism, etc., Free Republic stands firmly on the side of right, i.e., the conservative side.

[M Kehoe]

Welcome to FR.

Click here to donate to FRee Republic.

Thank you, and enjoy.

5.56mm

[Coffee_drinker]

Hi, Welcome to FR! glad to have you aboard.

DU stands for a website talk forum that is very liberal basically the opposite of this site. It stands for Democratic Underground.
You will also se DUmmies which we often refer to them as. LOL

take care, CD

[djf]

Well, I've had my moments as well!!

I finally realized there are some folks here no matter what you say to them, they want to argue. So I just don't go there anymore.

This is one of the best sources for breaking news anywhere. We have 100,000 reporters!

[rightinthemiddle]

I wonder if more of the MSM is checking the site?

I would love to see Rathergate have an impact on the media. The corporate pocketbooks are going to have to have an impact on coverage one of these days.

Thanks.

[knak]

Thanks for posting. I was just asking about this a couple of days ago and didn't get an answer!

[rightinthemiddle]

Thanks for the information...took a look at DU...looks kinda like CNN.com.

[Robert A Cook PE]

The color highlighting of each day according to its number is VERY, VERY instructive:

Look at how few, how very raw it in 1997-2000, 2001 even, to have even 100 members sign up per day.

Hundreds and hundreds of "black" squares. A handful of light green. One or two weeks when 2 or 3 days would be green.

Now?

The average is nearly 100 per day, most are over 125-150 per day.

Green highlights are the norm, and the rate is increasing.

(Jim rubs his hands in glee and wonder. Now, about those new servers, he cackles merrily, looking under the Christmas tree...)

[Robert A Cook PE]

You got it.

[Coffee_drinker]

Question to some Freepers in the Know,

I know there are some big names that post or log in here, does anyone have a list of those people. Just curious.
TIA
CD

[Robert A Cook PE]

Troll, better defined, is a person who deliberates comes in our living room while we are having a conversation with other interested readers, dumps a load of trash and lies on the rug, and then either stands by and laughs at our irritation, or slimes out the back door.

There's nothing wrong with a misstatement, an error.

Nothing wrong with presenting the other side of an issue.

But lies?

[Clump]

The left must be shi**ing themselves after the week they have had. And to make things worse, Freepers are growing exponentially. Gurrr!! Let's keep it up and continue to tell our freedom loving family and friends about Freerepublic.com.

[Rightly Biased]

And more Vanities than you could beat Dan Rather to death with.

[Dec31,1999]

The name of the website has been publicized widely in many media outlets as the source of the first revelation that the CBS memos were forgeries.

Yes, but only because they were forced to. For years various pundits and news sources have been plagiarizing and reacting to ideas and opinions presented on FR without giving due credit.

It seems FreeRepublic.com has come of age.

But the powers that be simply cannot have this, so be prepared for assaults on Internet free speech. Mark my words.

[BlessedBeGod]

How many were trolls? LOL!

At least they'll be good for a few laughs. ;-)

[AmericaUnited]

FreeRepublic to me is about liberty and truth and this noble country we love

And don't forget the humor!!! I get a few good belly laughs every time I go through a series of threads.

[ScholarWarrior]

I don't know. Haven't seen many Freepers as media types.
I'd suspect that some of the trolls are media people looking for the first time, like a horse looking at the horseless carriage in wonder and horror.

[CholeraJoe]

I'm wearing jogging shorts and an Auburn University tshirt. Never wear PJ's.

Auburn 10, LSU 9

WAR EAGLE!

[blondee123]

love this site! Nothing like troll hunting on a slow saturday.

Trolls don't realize that troll hunting here is a conservative sport! They don't last past one post, even on a bad day!

[Jim Robinson]

Yup. We recently added our 5th server and John already has a couple more on order. We will continue beefing up the system as we add more readers and posters. Now over 168,000 signed up and growing.

Received this note from John on 9/17:

Had about 5.3 million hits yesterday, 180,000 unique visitors. About 38,000 comments.

Still working on restoring the [stats] reports. Installed new tables to track comments and articles by time ranges. I'll be able to resume the daily reports as soon as I write the connecting code.


And this from John the day before:

More than 5 1/2 million hits, almost 200,000 unique visitors.