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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ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Conservatism is not about name calling, attacking others, or bullying. I get enough of that from the Obamanites.
Conservatives must stop eating their own and unite in order to take back each district across this country. If not, Conservatism will be written about in the history books as an Ideology of the past.
Sean Hannity seams like a great guy, but he can’t debate his way out of a wet paper bag. Quite franky, I never could understand how he ever made it to where he is....
IT was a real zot of a zot. Amazing that, I was certain the universe would end!
IATZ.
Your unsupported and ignorant opinion in this instance is clearly worthless.
You make that sound as if it's a bad thing. Do you enjoy losing with "moderates" like John McCain at the top of the ticket?
One of President Reagan's greatest failures was to go back on his campaign promise to abolish the Department of Education that Jimmy Carter had established.
I’m with you on that. He’s never produced an original thought (that I’ve heard) and only seems to be able to parrot the ideas of other conservatives.
ping
i don’t support the banning of people on here...and did sean hannity really get banned from free republic?? wow
we’re not the liberals who don’t like debate
if your confident in your ideals you can defend them against anybody....
i’m a nj republican....??? whats the problem
you guys need to trust us real conservatives who happen to live in the northeast...i know a lot of us suck in this area
but here in nj there is a real conservative called steve longean running against an establishment republican and i pray to god Steve can beat him
and rudy guiliani would have done better than mccain in the election thats a guarantee ...even though he was wrong on abortion and gun rights he was going to appoint conservative judges...thus nullifying that issue
but i’m really annoyed by the bias that we northeastern conservatives get on here ...you guys do realize the founding fathers mainly came from the northeast...we get enough crap from the horrible liberalism we have to deal with be a little nicer to us
Paul is a rank embarrassment, a fraud, a hypocrite and an accomplished earmarker.
Department of Education should be the first agency to go and BATF should be turned into a one-stop convenience store.
PaleoPaulie's Congressional seat should be occupied by a patriot and not by the incumbent 9/11 Troofer.
You are the Weakest Link.
Goodbye!
I have never seen any evidence that Dr. Paul is “for leaving this country wide open to future attack”. If the United States were run by real patriots, we’d be the Kings of Space and in the best defensive position on (off) the planet. But we can’t afford to do that if we have to make the world safe for votes on how often Afghani wives have to have sex with their husbands.
bump post 69!!!
AAAAaaayup!
Sitting up straighter I am....
feel bad for the dog BUMP
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