I copied it from FReeper Firehat years ago. Several other have copied it.
Posted on 05/16/2009 7:03:22 PM PDT by trying17 (AKA DrGop0821)
Even Sean Hannity has written off Free Republic, saying "Everyone I knew basically left because of so much childish immature personal attacks, the propensity there to eat their own." [Listen to Sean Hannity’s Statement about Free Republic. ]
I was suspended from "conservative" site Free Republic for having an opinion. It's amazing that a so called site dedicated to "Free" would ban someone for having an opinion.
I encourage anyone to feel free to post my material on Free Republic or elsewhere as I will no longer be posting on that site. (If anyone knows of other open forums similar to Free Republic please let me know.)
There are many amazing people over there who support true conservatism and value the opinion of others in the name of advancing our cause.
However the site is too often dominated by a select few radical Right Wing nutjob bullies who are completely intolerant and hypocritical. They are no better than the Liberals they speak out against. Many simply nitpick and chastise others just to make themselves feel better.
The hypocrisy is astounding and intolerable at times.
My account was "Zotted" according to their lingo for being a "troll".
Many "FReepers" complained that I was "pimping my blog".
However, from their own "rules":
For all of you who have blogs or personal web sites that you would like to discuss or promote on Free Republic, here's the place to do it.
Our Bloggers & Personal forum is for:
Posting from your blog.
Posting from other peoples blogs.
Posting from your personal web site.
Posting from other peoples personal web sites.
Promoting your blog.
Promoting other peoples blogs.
Promoting your personal web site.
Promoting your favorite web sites.
Posting from your favorite outside forums.
Free Republic is the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America. And we always have fun doing it. Hoo-yah!
Zot - verb, to get kicked off FR in an undignified manner That's what most people think "Zot" means, but it's not correct.
The history of "Zot".
There are one or two individuals who, for whatever reason, enjoy signing up new accounts here every single day to post leftist drivel. Sometimes they are vanities from DemocraticUnderground. Sometimes they are articles from other far-left sources. Sometimes they are nothing but vile doctored images or profanity laced tirades. Sometimes they are from legitimate sources but happen to strike the eye of the poster as being something that would infuriate conservatives.
The posters in question always post the articles, and then don't reply. They then post other articles, again not replying. This was going on for months. Jim would confirm by looking at the IP addresses and other aspects of the user's 'footprint' that it was the returning troll, and we would nuke the accounts. This went on for months.
Then some of the opportunists who wanted to harm the forum started a whispering campaign, complaining about articles being deleted. They would play off of the fact that the trolls' articles were being pulled to complain that there was some sort of agenda of squelching legitimate conservative postings going on by the moderators.
One day I decided to try something new. I decided, instead of letting the trolls get what they want and have their posts up as flame bait, and instead of pulling the threads outright, I would move their post aside and replace it with something that hopefully others would find humorous. I would do this out in the forum for all to see. The original piece would be available through the history link for the curious, who could see if there was some sort of censorship campaign going on. And the freepers could have fun mocking the troll if they so liked.
It so happens that the way I did it the first time was using a screen shot from Caddyshack, where the pastor gets hit by a lightning bolt. Being a bit of a fan of the comic strip "B.C." I captioned the photo with the lightning bolt sound that Johnny Hart used in his strip- ZOT! That is where the term Zot originated.
Now, sometimes we "zot", and sometimes we simply pull it. It depends on a number of factors, including how busy we are at the time. But whenever you see a Zot, you can be sure that the user was a 'newbie' who was doing their hit-and-run posting, and that if you as a well-established freeper thought the article would have made an interesting discussion, then you could probably post the same piece yourself without incident (although the most vile of the stuff probably would get pulled, and Jim reserves the right to remove anyone who he feels is constantly trying to push leftist propaganda on the forum). Anyway, that is the history and background behind zotting.
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I will continue to do my part to advance Conservative ideas and bring down the radical Left.
Free Republic sucks!
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Second from the left, but add 10 years...or so.
The original Zot thread the other evening went on till past midnight PST
Wow, that’s pretty good stuff, in a comprehensive sort of way. Can I borrow it to use against trolls on other forums?
I’ve heard FR is addictive.
Apparently not everyone can handle moderator induced cold turkey.
I’m sorry I missed it. I must have been working late that night.
IBTZ!
The guy who was Zotted supports RINO Paul.
There are to many on FR with Threads and posts
supporting that RINO
Ron Paul mystified me. I went to one of his meetings to see what the guy was about ... some conservatives I know and respect were supporting the guy. But the place was packed with skinheads, White Supremecy nuts, neo-Nazis and the like. Plus a few genuine conservatives. I decided there was more than meets the eye with the guy and got out of Dodge.
BWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
I copied it from FReeper Firehat years ago. Several other have copied it.
It would appear that someone needs to start a "battered Freepers" shelter where poor souls like this one can go to get therapy and counseling. When the day comes that I get banned I'll just turn the computer off and go outside.
Sigh—another boring opus, not worth the electrons it takes to display it.
In over ten years here, I have never seen a finer group of folks than those that inhabit this forum. Even those I butt heads with occassionally prove to be a cut above the average bear.
Call us “neo-fascists”?
Sounds like a bad case of projection to me.
Alas..facing starvation...they were forced to eat Sir Robins minstrals...they rejoiced.
According to alexa.com
conservativexpress.blogspot.com
gets most of its click stream support
from FreeRepublic
55.95% Upstream clicks
49.23% Downstream clicks
ergo
his pimping the conservativexpress site
generates basicall all the hits he gets
No wonder he trolls FreeRepublic
It is what passes for his life supports
BBB Bye
If nothing else, anyone mentioning DITHF knows some history. At the time the longest thread on FR? I think it was the first one to be broken into parts because so many FReepers were using 14K modems and 200K+ bites took a long time to load. That thing lasted what 18 months? 2 years? I remember months going by and all of a sudden the thread would be revived. Finally someone pieced together a chronology of resurrections and put two and two together.
Where's quidam?
yitbos
ROFLOL, that's ok!!!!
You’ll notice the mods changed the link. Were I they I’d change the name too just to prevent the free publicity that is the whole reason he/she posted in the first place.
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