Posted on 01/19/2011 10:00:05 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Edited on 01/19/2011 10:21:38 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
I'm placing this in breaking news, because there have been several breaking news complaint threads recently. Guess there are a lot of people not understanding the facts about FR, or what we stand for, where we're going, etc.
First of all, who reads FR and how many accounts do we have? I honestly have no idea and the exact number does not concern me. We currently have over 369,000 registered accounts on FR, but as someone pointed out yesterday, not all of them are active and I have no idea how many are active.
Many years ago we had less than 30,000 accounts registered. Then we hit a hundred thousand, a hundred fifty thousand, then two hundred thousand and three or four years ago we approached and went over 300,000. Every few years as we hit a major milestone in registered accounts, I updated our home page with the current number of accounts on FR. I'll probably do it again after we go over 400,000, then 500,000, etc, and maybe I won't. The number of registered accounts doesn't really mean much. And our growth in the last few years has tapered off anyway for various reasons.
Who actually reads FR? Again, we have no idea, but there are hundreds of thousands maybe even millions of readers. All kinds of people read FR. News hounds, liberals, conservatives, politicians, talk show hosts, religious types, atheists, you and me brother and everyone in between. We serve over 1,000,000 pageviews per day.
So why has our growth tapered off? Well, probably the primary reason is we've narrowed our point of view lately as we've moved away from just talking about the issues and have actually started becoming constitutional activists.
The time for talking is over. Now we need to walk the walk. Our focus has become closer to working on our primary goal which is a return to constitutionally limited government and a full restoration of our God-given unalienable rights.
We can't do that by being big tent, all things to all people, non-principled, two-talking politicians. If we are truly interested in advancing our traditional conservative pro-God, pro-family, pro-life, pro-country, pro-liberty principles and positions then we must reject the politicians and people supporting the other way.
As an organization, we cannot be both for and against homosexuality, abortion, big government, border and national security, etc. I don't know about others, but if we must choose, I choose to be on the right side of each and every issue. Why should FR use its limited resources to allow liberals, homosexualists, abortionists, big spenders, big taxers, big government solutions advocates, gun grabbers, pacifists, isolationists, environmentalists, open-borders lobbyists, etc, ply their trade on FR? Well, more and more lately, we don't. And, apparently, that has pissed off a lot of big tent, true blue RINO types and the herd is stampeding. Let them go.
We who share our common traditional conservative principles, values and goals will be better off in the long run. We need to build on our strengths and attract more traditional conservatives to our viewpoints than to water down and weaken our own. It just doesn't make sense to me to support politicians like Giuliani, Romney, Gingrich, et al, who have RINO/liberal track records. It doesn't make sense to allow abortionists, homosexualists, gun-grabbers, big-government solutionists, etc, to have free rein on FR to target and lambast us daily with their repugnant bile. Let them go.
FR will continue on the traditional God, family, country, life and liberty path. If it means fewer accounts or less growth, so be it. If it means we receive fewer in donations, so be it. We will adapt, improvise and overcome and I believe prosper (God willing) in the long run. And, hopefully, someday we can say that we helped restore our beloved republic and our Liberty!
We need big and vigilant kitties, including on Free Republic, to keep them out of the House, and Senate and out of our schools and churches and, and, and...
More power to Mrs. Wham!
Yeah, What Jim Said.... You are right Jim, you cannot have things both ways. As they say, “ If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything”..
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"I believe in mom, apple pie and baseball. I believe in defending our nation when threatened or attacked. I believe in the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. I believe that our rights come from God and that we're all to be treated equally before the law. I'm pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, and pro-gun. I'm for less government, less taxes and less corruption. I'm for equal rights for all, but not special rights for special interests. I'm for the traditional family and against the feminist/homosexualist agenda. I'm for allowing God back into our schools and getting government the hell out. I'm for getting the US out of the UN and kicking the UN out of the US. I'm opposed to liberalism and opposed to judicial activism. I'm opposed to socialism and I'm for freedom. Have no idea if that makes me a conservative in your eyes or not and could care less one way or the other." |
(Thanks, onyx for the <table> details!)
I promise not to show her your post! LOL!
Just kiddin'
Behind you all the way, JR.
“Thin out the herd...”
That reminds me of a theory of intelligence by our friends at Cheers.
‘Well you see, Norm, it’s like this . . . A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the heard is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Now, as we know, excessive intake of alcohol kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. And that, Norm, is why you always feel smarter after a few beers.’
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Thank You Jim. The RINOs (and republicans in general) just need to learn that you just can’t separate fiscal conservatism from social conservatism.
What do you call a liberal that can add? A libertarian.
What do you call a liberal that can add but can’t multiply? A gay libertarian.
If FR readers are tapering off, it may be because the Tea Parties have stolen FR’s thunder.
All I ask is that if a post and account is under imminent deletion, to please consider the time of day (e.g., happy hour), if previous posts indicate conservative values, and if the poster is a good donator. ;-)
First of all, who reads FR and how many accounts do we have? I honestly have no idea and the exact number does not concern me. We currently have over 369,000 registered accounts on FR, but as someone pointed out yesterday, not all of them are active and I have no idea how many are active.
I suppose, I'm the one who pointed this out yesterday. I don't know whether active account is the right phrase. What makes a registered account? I would say at least an account name. But of these 369,000 account IDs, only 269,000 are assigned a name - so, for me this seems to be the number of registered accounts. And of course - as with wikipedia - you will find under the 269,000 registered accounts thousands which obviously haven't been able to edit FR at all - just have a look at the accounts #346,146 to #348,153, most of them having the word "webcam" in it... So, even when you are not concerned with the exact number, it would be nice to get the number right to one significant digit - at least on the main page of FR.
We serve over 1,000,000 pageviews per day.
The number of pageviews is certainly more significant than the number of accounts. And again, that is the number which is displayed on the main page of FR:
We're currently delivering over thirty million pageviews per month to over one million visitors.
This number was put there in the first week of Dec 2008, and was never changed. That's quite a time for a current figure. Especially, as the months before, the months which most probably were used to calculate it, included the election of Nov 4, 2008 - and were at least in regard of the number of daily edits and posted threads by far the busiest of the last two years.
“our primary goal which is a return to constitutionally limited government and a full restoration of our God-given unalienable rights.”
Thank You for FreeRepublic.
SFL
I believe most that are going to contribute have done so or will soon.
If I were Jim I'd Zot you just so you'd get a LIFE.
Being a “big tent” got us Obamacare and the rest of the crap we’re looking at right now.
It’s time to FIGHT!
We’re losing our Republic as we watch.
All evil needs to prevail is for good people to stand by and do nothing.
And evil in 2011 is prevailing....
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