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Whiner or not - at least I do not post a vanity to complain as many of the anti-regulation of posters do.
It is a pride thing. We are better than that and who says Jim has to work his heart out to allow us to cuss, post obscene sexual comments on the internet?

Also why would any contribute to a site of trash?

Well, no, I don't think people should come on the site and say "#$*% you, you #$(#%ing M#$&#%er". I agree if you hit the button on these types of posts. Just hopefully not becauseyou simply disagree with someone.

And remember, while Jim Rob has a great idea ... it is THE USERS that make a forum. Without people posting, FR is a webpage. A webpage like 1,000,000,000 other webpages.

What makes FR great is not it's URL, but the people who post, and PAY FOR the servers. After all, it's not really a perosnal endeavor, but a company (and LLC to be exact). A personal endeavor is called a blog.

99.999% of the content on Free Republic is posted not by Jim Robinson, but by everyone else. And people come to it for the content ... of which "We" all provide for free - or sometimes even pay to provide.

So, when you become very popular, your credibility is boosted, and you have a website that is very popular almost solely because of the content provided by people other than yourself, you have to show some respect to the people who got you there. And in the end, that is the users.

We've all seen thigns become heavyhanded (Prodigy who?), and then all you have left are zealots that are all of the same opinion.

And absolutely nobody is going to read that.

So while big props go to Jim Robinson, even bigger props go to the thousands of people (kooks and otherwise) who give me my daily list of breaking news.

Let's not forget who got us here. You did, and everyone else who has posted in this thread.