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.
Looks like you and I are destined to one day shake hands.
Simply sign up for a $100 monthly donation and we'll see what we can do.
Have you not been to one of our al clayda meets?Guys it is time to get it together again, I will start, I got ribs and tator salad-------now you go.
He who owns the gold.... makes the rules.
I've only been a FReeper since April, but since I've "tasted the lash", yet been re-instated, does this mean I'm no longer a newbie?
JK. I guess I should read it all, but say very little. One day, I'll be an old-timer.....
No, you are still a newbie, but that is OK. It takes time and worth over the years to understand what all of us older guys have gone through. Like the Yahoo emergency board, any newbies here know what that is??? Also to live through the deaths of some close freepers, some under questionable circumstances and tha banning of others, not that they were wrong, they just couldn't help themselves. There is a lot of history here you will never read or hear about, stick around, it's a whole nother world.
:)
Lazmatazmania?
I have no idea who you are and you have no idea what your talking about
Zot's right!
Blasphemy!
Shouldn't most adults know this? ;0
Bwahahahaha...
That error alone would get you banned in most forums.
The Ghetto Grammarian:
Word.
:)
I'm surprised that no one mentioned the passing of my one year FR anniversary a few weeks ago.
It's been a whole year and I've only had three different Internet pseudonyms to go by.
Quite an accomplishment if ya ask me.
:7)
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
You know, you don't have to make a snide remark when I tell a cute story about a cat. This is not "Learn to be a Jerk Class".
"A person wondering why you would want to commit suicide by post?? You do know joe went down becase of his views , right?"
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. In case no one's thought it out, solving the illegal immigration problem (getting/keeping them out) is going to be unavoidably messy at this point, and that's *if* we have the guts to do what's necessary.
You may think the "sniper solution" is extreme now, but in twenty years when Texas is once again a de facto Province of Mexico you might see things differently.
My joy is that she does not live her any more...
(8-}
When a person advocates nuking something, they are typically making a request for government action and not "inciting violence" per se.
Ah, see, that's where you went wrong. You didn't make it to your one-year anniversary with FR. That's when they give us the Secret Power Ring that makes our opinions more credible than those of the newbies.
Live and learn, I guess, eh?
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