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[I can’t think of a downside to that. ]

Perhaps so. I have just seen so many brand new people putting up threads immediately and there were many posters who thought the threads questionable.

You know as well as I do that there are new ones joining just to cause friction, and as another well known freeper put it, “they can be very smart about it”.

I don’t really believe brand new freepers are going to immediately start donating to FR either.

I have a Dell computer and fast cable connection and yet have had all kinds of trouble getting around here in the past month. Each freeper has 4 or 5 pages of ‘their own’, so the large influx of new people is going to put additional burden on the forum when it is already working slow and at the most important of times.

Just some of my thoughts Mary, but I don’t push it because I am a graphics poster and even though my graphics bandwidth comes from another paid site they take up space here.

As has been said a million times, one picture can say a thousand words.

I honestly would like to know what the ‘upside’ to it is, we already have all the ‘thoughts’ available here from thousands of intelligent people and new freepers could join after the election?

I understand, I think, the perspective . . .

However, IF

I read JimRob right at all on the matter, he’d be very unlikely to do things that way.

I think he’s more inclined to put up with hazardous nooobeees as an unavoidable cost to allowing authentic Conservatives to the FR table.

We sort of need all the help from authentic conservatives we can get in this very critical election.

And, a lot of the mods are pretty sharp.

just my 2 cents.

I don’t like it.

Each election, FR has become clogged, and each time, Mr. Robinson has increased his staff, and equipment to deal with the growth, and the problems.

We too, are responsible for Free Republic, by how we conduct ourselves, and our ability to deal with ill-intentioned visitors.

I’ll give you one down-side. What if my son decided to sign up so he could post on FR, and he couldn’t because you got your wish?

I’d rather he be able to, and fight the trolls that come (and they come all the time. Many of us, including yourself, have been at this for years and years) than have him lose that privilege, just to make it ‘easy’ for me.