I would say that people are most often banned here because of their "flavor".
I have arguments with people here at times but the support and friendship is just unbeatable, especially for those of us living in blue states - we desperately need it! Without my local freeper friends I would be very lonely and probably go crazy.
I hope you will stick around and enjoy FR.
Welcome to FR. Some people are just fighters and tend to make themselves into battlegrounds. Some people just seem to be unable to express their opinion without attacking others, no matter what the topic is. Some people continually break the rules and cause problems. (Jim Rob is responsible for legalities about what is posted here, remember.) Some people come here to post things which are flagrant and posted specifically to flame others.
Thanks
(Honesty here).
I'm confused, I have heard of freerepublic before, but I don't recall where. I assumed that the banner on the front page made it a place where you could freely express yourself.
I do understand about annoying little people who come just to pick a fight but, thats part of free speech. I'd don't think people should be penalized for stating a difference of opinion in a debate.(I'm not making any assertions of any knowledge because I don't know what happened. This guy could be an antagonist.).
aside from a very small general statement of rules, I didn't see much concerning rules, any links to administrators to ask questions, or any defintions to the terminology used here,(for the record I should probabley tell you I'm not a republican but, I am non partisan, and got into many debates with 'anyone but Bush' people, and voted for W.).I dn't know what a troll or a zot is for example.
Also, I have seen posts in forums which seem dangerously close to bashing other groups, and someone posted something in this forum which sounded like it is acceptable to bash Islamics and europeans, (I'm a christian but, I have some Islamic friends. They are nice people, it's the radicals who are the problem.), and in this room it seems like people jumped on the opportunity to attack this guy without reprisal. This seems ununiform.
Alot of people are posting rules sarcastically, and I suppose I'm getting a more defined idea of what is allowed but, shouldn't the admin or someone else be advising him on what he did wrong and defining the rules better for him and with sincerity, since everyone seems to know who he is and what post got him kicked off.