Good advice, and what separates us from the leftists.
There is a forum on this site called...”Bloggers and Personal”. That’s what it’s called. Seriously.
Now I am a Blogger but I also am a prolific poster on this site. I understand that prolific doesn’t necessarily mean good or even desireable but go with me here, I don’t post a link to my Blog once a week and run off. I actively participate in discussions and many enjoy what I offer.
But I simply cannot win. I go to this part of the forum called, again, read it...BLOGGERS AND PERSONAL. Silly me, this makes me think it’s okay to post a link to my Blog...a synopsis.
I don’t think I’ve ever encountered such cruelty and nastiness in my life and at times I want to sob out loud.
What happened to the FreeRepublic I used to know? For I am no newbie, that’s for certain. I joined this forum right after the attacks on 9-11-01.
I get cartoons of Blog pimps, nasty comments, told my Blog is ugly. I only post links to my Blog once a week but to try desperately to be fair I put right on the front page, in big capital letters...VANITY TO MY BLOG! Just so that folks who don’t want to be bothered can scroll right on by, scroll right on by, don’t let me offend you. And yet there are people who have to take time out of their busy lives and write nasty things and I wonder what joy people get out of taking time to stop and be mean.
I don’t put my Blog synopsis and link on that forum to garner hits. You get a couple of hundred hits, maybe, but that’s peanuts in the world of this big bad internet. I put the link to my Blog because I love to write, I love to Blog, I’m not normal some might say, I want to share my thoughts.
Why oh why is this so bad?
I contribute to FreeRepublic’s fundraiser. I try to be fair and decent but this site has somehow come to be a place for a few very mean people whose goal in life is to show how nasty they can be.
Hey, it’s not that often and it’s not that many. The vast majority of Freepers are good people. Used to be only Liberals were mean. But it only takes one really, really mean commenter and it can ruin a day. I can’t imagine how on earth a new poster handles it. They probably head for the high hills.
I happened to check into a thread by a relatively new Blogger and he was getting eaten alive because he put up a post to his Blog. I defended him, I told him that this was the Bloggers and Personal forum and he could most certainly post a link to his Blog here. Blogging IS a way of communicating today and hey, go ahead, start another forum for strictly Freeper Bloggers if need be but dear Lord stop with the meanness.
I do so appreciate the time taken to post this and I will volunteer to help in any way possible to welcome new posters. I know FreeRepublic has gotten involved in some of the tea parties and is getting more recognition every day. I’d hate to think that we’ve all gotten so small, mean and narrow minded that we implode and rot into ourselves.
Interesting thought, except that in general the person who disagrees with you is the one who is the boor,nor rude, obnoxious, arrogant, petty, and clannish.