Top ten: Things that have gotten old at FR [Vanity]

January 18, 2010 | delacoert

[delacoert]

 10. Blog hawking (I know, I know, we're supposed to be nice.)

 9. Run-on, single-paragraph posts

 8. Pings to Jim Robinson with kiss ass complements

 7. Posting "hugh and series", "stuned beeber" or "Bush's fault"

 6. A post asking a noOb if they are sure they're logged in

 5. Passive-aggressive keyword epithet war

 4. Satire posts that fool you (the rest are hilarious)

 3. Viking Kitties (just kidding... love ya'... really...  who'd poke fun at you...  rah roh.)

 2. Vanities

 1. ...

[Salmonslayer]

“That’s one of the reasons I lurk rather than post very often. Used to be folks said something intelligent, gave some insight, shared something that was worthy rather than sound like a bunch of ignorant punks giving each other high-fives in an echo chamber.”

Agreed.

In addition, there is a certain Lord Of the Flies element that shuts down open discourse. If you don’t fall in line you are attacked.

I dont think Palin is ready to be the president.

Bring it on...:-)

[Berlin_Freeper]

Posts about politics.

[shibumi]

"I dont think Palin is ready to be the president."

She isn't. No one is.

She is, however, more ready than the Pretender/Usurper/SoroSockPuppet currently occupying the office.

[JSteff]

Any discussion of a minor military situation that ends with “MOAB”.

[trollcrusher]

01. The REALLY archaic (read: old) topic search / word search / post search engine that doesn't work more than half of the time. And the overall layout of the site / threads / and the size of these damn little "Your Reply" boxes. Like trying to type on the back of a grain of rice.

And oh, could the site move from a layout of oh ... circa 1999 to quite possibly, 2010? I mean, there are a ton of forums devoted to a lot of diverse subjects on the Internet today that have a much slicker and user friendly layout, customization tools, and posting abilities (learning HTML to enhance your posts is WAAAAAAY over the heads of most people ... including myself) by which Free Republic could model an updated appearance. Even the addition of personal avatars would be most welcome.

*End rant* ... I feel much better now. Thanks.

Take care,

trollcrusher

[ASA Vet]

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! I’ve got one. What is with the relatively new and growing fad of Freepers signing or initialing their replies? To me, it comes across as if they’re trying to say “copyright, patent pending, all rights reserved” or “yeah, I said it - that’s my brilliance, my work - tip your waitresses, I’m here all night”. :-)

LittleBillyInfidel
(So you KNOW who it is, baby!!)

[Enchante]

I’m relieved that you did not complain about photos of the gorgeous Catherine Zeta-Jones appearing after any mention of........ Maureen Dowd!

b/c photos of CZJ are always welcome

[matt1234]

People that write a post to correct a minor mispelling.

Satires without a "Satire" warning in the heading.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

qwitcher’ be-otchin’ or get out da’ kitchen-that’s what I say!

[Salamander]

People who post Smurfs.

[paulycy]

People who post Smurfs.

People who post people who *are* Smurfs.

[Rocky]

1. Top ten lists that only have nine items in them.

(By the way, thanks to Jim Robinson, without whom we could not be having so much fun while we watch the wacko libs go down in smoke. Is that too syrupy for you?)

And I really like the way you inspired a keyword war on this thread. Very entertaining.

[Waryone]

1. RINOs ;-)

[Salamander]

My liberal friend just *loved* that movie.

[what a surprise]

[this_ol_patriot]

Airstrikes arrive:

[ApplegateRanch]

1. Posting an ‘excerpt’ that repeats the lead sentence/paragraph 3 times, then includes the ads...leaving out any USEFUL information from the article.

1-A. Posting an “excerpt”, and when the link is clicked to get the rest of the story, there is no “rest”; the “excerpt” was the whole, short, inadequate article.

[jla]

* "see my tag line"

* Poor grammar; spelling which embarrasses the site and hence conservatives

* Adults behaving like whinging gay boys because they loathe Sarah Palin

* Those whose little world is utterly thrown into chaos because a duplicate topic had been posted

* Those who fail to grasp that tens of millions of others in our electorate do not think as they do

* The term "libtard"

* Birthers who assert that anyone who questions them is pro-Obama

* Those who have the uncontrollable need to advise Sarah Palin

[HiTech RedNeck]

The older style is fast fast fast and needs no javascript. Javascript makes townhall.com into a hell for older computers.

[Riley]

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People who post their comments in giant attention-whore, look-at-me fonts because they're terrified that their post won't be noticed otherwise.

It's the equivalent of screaming at someone and suddenly grabbing onto them while in a room where a calm, adult discussion is taking place.