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Okay. So, I'm not FREE to call someone out when they post not-so-good things. Oh, I get it now.

And I'm not FREE to ask someone to leave of my threads when they are purposely disrupting it and ruining it for others. Oh, I get it now.

As far as I'm concerned, you are FREE to do anything your little heart desires, regardless of the impression it gives of snippy 13-year-old girls.

You'll notice I didn't suggest you stop "asking" (although, I recall it being more of an order) someone to leave your threads when they are purposely disrupting it and ruining it for others (meaning other MittBots?). I consider the entertainment value priceless!

You are indeed perfectly FREE to call someone out when they post "not-so-good things," especially lies and half-truths designed to mislead and distort. I call such posters out on such things all the time, and so do most FReepers.

When you get your own forum, ONLY THEN can you ask anyone to leave "your thread" because only then can you rightly call it "your thread." Every thread on Free Republic belongs to Jim Robinson, a most generous host -- far more generous than YOU would be, dear. You would be smacking hands with rulers to make the children behave.

You are also FREE, as you've proven many times over the years on Free Republic, to become so offended by rough-and-tumble FReepers that you post silly, old ladyish prudish pursed-lip huffiness to show how deeply offended you are at such rudeness. Yes, happily, you are perfectly FREE to do so, as you well know, as long as Free Republic allows you to do it.

And likewise, as long as Free Republic allows, I am equally FREE to give you merciless verbal guff for it, as is greyfoxx and any other FReeper, as long as Jim allows us to be FReepers. You complain and whine when you should be giving much thanks.

Well... I think you're free to call people out on whatever you want, but the general idea in an open forum is, unless you are the owner of the forum, you can't tell the person to go away. There is easy-to-use software out there to set up your own discussions and you probably already use it - Facebook?

If someone is truly being abusive, you can report it and they may be kicked out.

And I’m not FREE to ask someone to leave of my threads when they are purposely disrupting it and ruining it for others

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YOU are not a MODERATOR, so therefore the answer is NO you are not allowed to order other posters around.

The point of FR is the free discussion of ideas, that includes some dissenting opinions on things.

If you feel someone is being disruptive or abusive, then hit the “abuse button”.

You are not our mommy, so I expect you to not act like it.