[lormand]

"I assume you posted more of your trashy pics. But your puny server is blocked here permanently."

Where is "here", Utopia?

"I don’t see the Paul-haters’ little graphics any more."

I'm deeply saddened by this sudden change of events. You took so much time and effort to block graphics, yet you post 30KB of spew to tell me about it. I'm quite flattered.

And don’t expect to see anything from them again. Essentially, for the fun of posting your little graphics, you’ve sacrificed a wider audience for any graphics you might post. So if you post pro-Fred or pro-Duncan graphics (say, even if RP goes home to run for Congress), I’ll never see any of those again either.

"I'll never..."

I like the way this is going...

"Just because you post them doesn’t mean I have to look at them. Or put up with having them clutter my My Comments page or suck up my bandwidth."

OK....he he!

"Many RP supporters are blocking the Paul-hater spam now."

It's not spam. Are threads on Freerepublic which highlight the "blame America" rantings of Cindy Sheehan also considered spam to you? It's the same here, Cindy Sheehan rants against the US, we slam her for it, Ron Paul rants against the US, we slam him too.

My question is, why restrict yourself to the wonderful contributions of REAL Freepers? Why not take your account to a more "suitable" forum which caters to your views, and not that of 99.9% of the rest of us?

Ron Paul lovers who continue to post here better get used to the flamin', or GTFO.

[darkwing104]

You must’ve really got on their nerves. They are ignoring you..

[George W. Bush]

I'm deeply saddened by this sudden change of events. You took so much time and effort to block graphics, yet you post 30KB of spew to tell me about it. I'm quite flattered.

One right-click and a couple keystrokes is pretty easy. I'm not bothering with modding my hosts file. Don't exaggerate your importance. But I suppose I should start cobbling together a hosts file for folks to download and update for this purpose. Thanks for the idea.

Ron Paul lovers who continue to post here better get used to the flamin', or GTFO.

Not at all. FR is, and has been for years, the official online forum of the Republican Liberty Caucus. It is essentially chaired by Ron Paul and he is their leading candidate nationally year after year. Look for the "RLC Liberty Caucus" link on your main pages.

Have you noticed what has happened recently to RedState.com in traffic rankings? We're waiting for an apology but debate continues on whether we should accept one if offered. Frankly, we don't care if they decide to go over the cliff for their Paul-hating ways.

Notice that pajamamedia.com has stopped snarking and has put Ron Paul back into their polls? Yep. I wonder why...

FReepers should be glad that we RP supporters are willing to do our part to keep FR's traffic up. Look at the numbers of page views and traffic generated here by RP threads. If you examine some of the Alexa and Google traffic rankings, DailyPaul.com has now passed FreeRepublic.com and is closing on HufPost where they may dis Ron Paul and try to persuade their followers not to vote for him but they don't sponsor Paul-hate. Admittedly, the DUmmies and the DailyKo(ook)s and the Huffies aren't too happy when Ron Paul keeps winning their polls, scoring well even with their longstanding membership, largely on RP's focus against the Iraq war and against Patriot Act and against the manipulation of the economy by the Fed and the extreme dissatisfaction with the stances of the supposedly "antiwar" "civil libertarian" candidates of the Dim party whose positions in their speeches and congressional votes is substantively identical to those of the Republicans running other than some rather meaningless dissent and doomed votes they hold on peripheral issues.

The huge traffic the Paulian Horde can generate is a tool. We are starting to wield it for our candidate. Currently, we are focused on the large libmedia operations who have begun to acknowledge our huge traffic flows (and their consequent rise in page rankings, ad views/revenue) but we are also paying some attention to influencing the traffic on the blogs and forum sites. Naturally, FR is by far the most immune site to such tactics because it is so unique. The others cannot similarly insulate themselves from the RP Effect. However, it is not indicated that traffic declines at those sites helps FR's growth.