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Are we all equal on FR?

Posted on 05/27/2005 8:31:06 AM PDT by JoeV1

I wonder if the rules on this forum are applied equally? Several weeks ago I was denied posting privileges because I jokingly advocated a "plan b" in fighting the so far failed war on illegal immigration. My "plan b" was to have border guards retreat to within 200 yards of the border and while fitted with night vision goggles simply drop any illegals attempting to gain access to America.

Now frankly I am not concerned with the fact I was denied posting privileges for a day(reason given was "advocating violence")but I wonder if the folks who post pictures of exploding nukes over text that calls for turning the middle east, or N Korea into a glowing heap of slag. were also denied the ability to post. I did a cursory check and found the names of the posters associated with the nuke threats posting regularly after the aforementioned posts appeared.

Is it possible that some are more equal then others here? I have been referred to as a "newbie" as if that somehow makes what I say less credible then someone here a longer period of time. I believe opinions are opinions and the length of forum membership does not serve to make ones credibility stronger.

It does seem that there is a "good old boy's" network operating here and the old timers are given more leeway as far as the rules then are the newer arrivals. While I have been a FR member for only 8 months I have been an avid political forum debator for 8 or 9 years on places such as the NYT, WP, LAT and others.

There was another incident in which I was accused of a personal attack although I was merely responding to an attack on myself. I never used profanity and merely responded in kind to another whose main complaint was that I was wrong in criticizing the post of another person because that person was a 5 year member. I was also told I didn't know what I was talking about. This resulted in a few back and forth retorts which I frankly found amusing and in no way took as an insult.

I thoroughly enjoy verbal jousting and never shrink from a confrontation. It appears that others see fit to run to the moderator at the first sign of getting back what it is they dish out. It is at that time that I believe the good old boys network comes into play.

If any of you would like to see the posts that caused this simply ask and I will happily post them.


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To: Admin Moderator

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. . . .!!!


61 posted on 05/27/2005 8:45:48 AM PDT by Gunrunner2
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To: JoeV1

Unless you're prepared to admit that a stinking, unemployed moveon hairhead is your equal, Joe, then the fact of the matter is that you and I are better than some and worse than others. Concluding otherwise may be what the Framers called 'leveling'.


62 posted on 05/27/2005 8:46:30 AM PDT by tumblindice (Colt, Ruger and Browning, also founding fathers)
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To: JoeV1

"While I have been a FR member for only 8 months I have been an avid political forum debator for 8 or 9 years on places such as the NYT, WP, LAT and others."

Ah, easy to read, is your mind. /Yoda


63 posted on 05/27/2005 8:47:36 AM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: Lazamataz
Rules are not made to be fair, they are made to be followed!
64 posted on 05/27/2005 8:47:51 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry ("Harry Reid in stripes, I kinda like that image." -Tagline courtesy of DFU. Thanks!)
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To: dirtboy
If you are a drooling moron, I am not sure I want to be your equal.

How ya been?

65 posted on 05/27/2005 8:47:51 AM PDT by Joe Driscoll (I'm unique, just like everybody else)
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To: JoeV1

In my house, there is no fair enforcement either. What I say goes. As long as my wife agrees.......


66 posted on 05/27/2005 8:47:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (I woke up this morning in ecstatic languid ennui...................)
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To: MaryFromMichigan
Yep.
And I'm fine with that.

Me too.

67 posted on 05/27/2005 8:48:08 AM PDT by adaven
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To: JoeV1

Let's see if I understand your complaint.

You come on this board and state that killing humans is a viable plan.

And you wonder why you would be kicked off the board?

You've been playing too many video games.

Go back to your Game Boy now and leave the adult conversations to the adults.


68 posted on 05/27/2005 8:48:27 AM PDT by Pylot
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To: Sir Gawain
The moderators use their judgment arbitrarily and let their views influence their decisions.

Bingo

69 posted on 05/27/2005 8:48:46 AM PDT by Protagoras (The goal is power, the tool is deceit.)
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To: JoeV1

Joe ...dont sweat it. I have been around here a long time and got bounced for asking a question about context of postings.
Robinson and the mods are not equal op bouncers.


70 posted on 05/27/2005 8:49:09 AM PDT by cynicom
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To: Lazamataz

I could pray that they all become christians, I know this
is within God's power to do. That would be the right thing
for me to do, but I do have get ideas on what we could
do on our own. None of my ideas are pretty or would be
practical to work out.


71 posted on 05/27/2005 8:49:18 AM PDT by jusduat (I am a strange and recurring anomaly)
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To: JoeV1
Hey Joe...I hope you put on your flame proof under ware this morning...cause you JUST ASKED for a heap of "Flaming"...

Ignore the folks that find this to be more hilarious than British comedy...or laugh along with them...(or try to).

The rules are the rules.
You will find that your posts..if they are advocating violence AT ALL probably GET REFFERED to the mods very quickly.
Since you are "newer" (and I will NOT say newbie...because when is NEWBIE TIME over??) anyway..since you are "Newer"...people really don't know if you are serious...AND, even if you are "joking" you will probably STILL get referred to the mods.
An OLD TIME MOLDY OLD POSTER that has been here forever..probably doesn't even get referred...
And that is just the way it is...

And..the rules ARE different...but that's ok too...we "young ins" can learn a LOT from the crusty old folks here...and they are the FIRST to let us know;-)

All in all, FR is such a GREAT place...that it is TOTALLY worth ignoring the inequities if you want to stay...(it is EVEN ALMOST WORTH ignoring the "funnier than British comedy" people...btw I don't like British Comedy either;-)
72 posted on 05/27/2005 8:49:50 AM PDT by M0sby (((PROUD WIFE of MSgt Edwards USMC)))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It was a serious point I was making and no, I am not whining as I stated clearly in my post. Some of you here take yourselves far, far to seriously and think nothing of passing judgment at the drop of a hat (or thread).

It's a forum, folks, it's for fun, and perhaps those of you here who believe the world exists to see your words ought to look into yourselves to try and discover what shortcomings and personal deficiencies exist within your lives that bring you to this conclusion.

Hail the mighty freeper for he can do no wrong. He is all seeing and all powerful. I'll give some of you one thing, you are a source of amusement but I wonder who much trouble it is to keep that halo shined?
73 posted on 05/27/2005 8:50:19 AM PDT by JoeV1 (Democrat Party-The unlawful and corrupt leading the blind and uneducated)
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To: JoeV1
calls for turning the middle east, or N Korea into a glowing heap of slag

I thought it was parking lots of glass.

74 posted on 05/27/2005 8:50:22 AM PDT by eyespysomething (Peace - that brief moment in history where everyone stands around reloading.)
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To: JoeV1

We're all just regular "Joe Six Packs"......


75 posted on 05/27/2005 8:50:42 AM PDT by b4its2late (It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.)
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To: JoeV1
My "plan b" was to have border guards retreat to within 200 yards of the border and while fitted with night vision goggles simply drop any illegals attempting to gain access to America.

Your heart's in the right place, but dropping illegals, as you say, is in poor form.

Personally, I'd dig giant trenches filled with petrol, wait till they stumble into them at night, then set them on fire.

But that's just me.
76 posted on 05/27/2005 8:50:51 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (The theory of evolution is the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century - Michael Denton)
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To: Joe Driscoll
I'm good, Joe.

I've had that tagline for awhile every since Steve Lovelady at Columbia Journalism Review, or whatever that screed is called, referred to us as slobbering morons or idiots or something like that.

Nothing like an insult you can wear with pride because it shows just how big a cretin is who uttered it.

77 posted on 05/27/2005 8:51:11 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drooling moron since 1998...)
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To: JoeV1

Don't take it so personally. I have taken a gander at your posts for as far as I wanted to read and find nothing there to consider you a disrupter.

I myself have been threatened with suspension for checking "activism" in the required posting index once to many times. I just did not know I was a repeat offender. I thought immigration was under there, but now I post NOTHING under activism!! Problem solved! I think it was "the way" I was told I would be suspended, more so than the correction itself. But as I whined then; but reflect now..its no big deal. I find no problem with how Jim steers his ship.

Just move on you had some good posts going for ya..as we can't take things to personally. Don't get drawn into a Chat-type attack mode. Happens all the time the FReeper will have a good post going and then has to put in that "personal dig" to you..yes that gets the blood boiling sometimes, but just don't bother responding.

( I am not a newbie; an inbetween-bie)


78 posted on 05/27/2005 8:51:36 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: Frank_Discussion

"Ah, easy to read, is your mind. /Yoda"

http://www.sithsense.com/flash.htm


79 posted on 05/27/2005 8:51:50 AM PDT by M0sby (((PROUD WIFE of MSgt Edwards USMC)))
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To: JoeV1
While I have been a FR member for only 8 months I have been an avid political forum debator for 8 or 9 years on places such as the NYT, WP, LAT and others.

Got a call from a telemarketer a little bit ago trying to sell a subscription to the NYT.

Told 'em I wouldn't buy their rag to line my bird cage. They asked "why?" so I said, "well, I like my bird."

In true telemarketer style, they still wouldn't take no for an answer, and asked if I had any friends who might like a subscription. So, of course, I said, "No, I like my friends, too."

80 posted on 05/27/2005 8:51:59 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("We, the people, are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts..." -Abraham Lincoln)
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