Her old, old posts from a time when she contributed something positive can still be found in the archives. That hasn’t changed. But it didn’t buy her the right to use Free Republic as a launching pad for her attacks against conservative values.
“She gave as good as she got, sometimes giving before she got it.”
For crying out loud do you people ever just speak truth?
That sentence is descriptive of the countless thousands of hours of our time you have wasted on your endless circular nonsense.
Read her last posts. She is one very angry person.
"But she also was a long-time FReeper whose contributions were invaluable to this website for years."
That is very true.
However, she's become very absusive of late.
That isn't very attractive at all.
"In the aggregate, her contributions will be missed by many, including me."
I know that she's been a stalwart here.
However, she's been very nasty, too.
She's run more people off of the forum than anyone I know.
Count me as one.
I used to be on the end of her wrath at times, she would keep posting to me but I would only reply with "baiting" in my response to her. It would bug the stew out of her. I saw her drive many good people away, with a swarm mentality. She especially would attack people of religious persuasion. Humility was not one of her strong points. It was very effective for a long time. I mostly just stayed out of the way when I could.
OTOH... I did see her put that swarm mentality to good use numerous times on events like the CBS fake letters. She could be sharp as a chicken after a june bug when she smelled blood. When she wrapped her attention on a subject, she could see the project through, smart as a whip gathering/compiling tidbits of information. As previous stated, humility was not her strongest point, but it also probable (IMNSHO) one of her driving point to make her research so throughly.
Like most of us, when examined close enough, there was good and bad.
In all fairness, that is just my perspective. Take it for what it cost ya.
I’ve been thinking about this, and need to add to my post.
To be fair to Howlin, she never, ever flamed me.
However, when I disagreed with her, to avoid attracting her attention, I wouldn’t post my thoughts.
I had seen what she did to many other people, and avoided that like the plague.
Maybe FR is the wrong forum for me. ;o)
(BTW, she wasn’t always like that.)
Now, I’m off this thread, and outta here until this blows over.
In the last couple of years, I’ve found I have a life. ;o)