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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Cool!
Tell her I’ll clean up afterwards, OK?
To me, CA is like fingernails on chalkboard.
Having someplace you can come home to is priceless.
Oh, there isn’t enough money in the Federal Reserve to pay me to go back to CA. I can only assume that you’d like the Great State of Idaho...the fishin’ holes here are enough for me.
One of the reasons I like Alaska is their concealed carry laws.
And then of course there is Montana’s Constitution.
Of course there is always the inherent natural beauty of such places.
I guess I never really though about Idaho because I don’t know that much about it.
At this point though, anything beyond my keyboard is pretty much out of reach.
See, I’m an Oakland Raiders fan, I couldn’t live in SD.
Although you all are in Duncan Hunter’s district, so you’ve got that going for ya. :)
self ping for later
San Diego has 5 Congressmen.
I live near downtown , the harbor and bay
Marine Capt. Duncan Hunter’s dist is in the East part of
the County.
Congressmen. Bilbray and Issa are also great conservative Republicans here
Maybe we can dump the illegals and all the libs who came from the east coast and close OUR borders?
What a beautiful state this is, too.......!!!!!!!
San Diego also has the largest concentration of Military in the world.
The concealed carry laws here in Idaho are very tolerable. I don't carry concealed (or at all) because I have terrible vision without my contacts and I don't practice like I should. My brother on the other hand is very particular about how often he shoots. He also has 20/20 vision...and yes, I'm using that as an excuse for my own shortcomings, but thankfully I have the motivation to do so thanks to the BHO administration to exercise my rights.
I love the Ocean.
I can walk up several blocks and down a few and look out at the Carriers including the USS Reagan
I’ll have to drive down there someday with the dawgs and we can all walk the beach together....how’s that?
That sounds like a plan. Will look forwad to that.
Yeah, as someone who lived in the Bay Area as a kid, I would kind of appreciate that kind of an effort.
Beautiful dog.
Are both your dogs Sheps
Yep. My dog.
And yep....I have another...
I have a huge cat, originally from E 74th St NYC
KIND OF? I'd (figuratively speaking for all Bambi lurking dorks out there...) KILL for this state to be rid of the libs and illegals.
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