[anniegetyourgun]

This may help. Lots of new folks - many who think the purpose of FR is to post their most recent thought. (I'm not accusing anyone in particular.) It's just gonna take some time to get back to SOP since the election, though it's already improved dramatically with each passing day.

[nygoose]

SOP is what I'm questioning. How does one start a thread on this forum? It seems that you must pose a question already brought up in some form by a jerk in the media.

My point is that our people are smarter that most in the media; both individually and collectively.

[narby]

I appreciate the "No Vanities" rule. But....

There are times when it's good to be able to post something that looks important that doesn't have a specific media link.

Any possible way we could set up a rule where you'd get one vanity a day. Or week. Or month.

Perhaps tie it to donations, although there may be some laws about that.

If JimRob could change the system to flag posts with no valid links and count how many times a user did such posts, it'd be a good management tool.

Personally, I think a good mix of about 80% "news" items and 20% vanity is kind of nice. Just don't want FR to become a mess with 100% vanities 24/7.

[nygoose]

Double,triple and other forms of multiple posting is a different issue than simple vanity posting. I am only concerned with us not being able to post for discussion legitimate thoughts that for whatever reason are verboten for the MSM to publicly deal with.

Many of these topics are politically incorrect and not simply pictures of a member's grandchildren, new home or a presentation of a good recipe for Grandmother's pumpkin cookies.

"Vanities" which are useful include problems and/or possible solutions which are never addressed by the general media for fear of retribution by an employer, the CIA, FBI, a powerful politician or any other individual or institution which does not want a particular subject addressed by a member of an affected group.