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Who reads FR? How many accounts on FR? What does FR stand for? Where is FR going?
01/19/11 | Jim Robinson

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!


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
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To: Jim Robinson
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.

Indeed. I heard someone whining the other day on the news that Sarah Palin is too polarizing, to which I responded, "Polarization is what we need!" Stick to your guns, Jim. Compromise loses every time it's tried.
521 posted on 01/20/2011 10:16:23 AM PST by arderkrag (Georgia is God's Country.----------In the same way Rush is balance, I am consensus.)
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To: bezelbub; Jim Robinson; onyx; trisham
You need to be Zotted! Seriously!

You're like a dog with a bone that no one else wants. If I was a Mod you'd be gone simply for being an annoying JERK.

522 posted on 01/20/2011 10:21:49 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: bezelbub

Our pageviews per day varies by the news cycles. On big news days it can go over 2,000,000 pageviews per day. On most average weekdays it’s over 1,000,000 per day. On weekends and holidays it’s less. The exact number would only be important if we were selling advertising and we’re not. You’re not a big FR user so why do you care?


523 posted on 01/20/2011 10:40:42 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Nuke the corrupt commie bastards to HELL!!)
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To: bezelbub

Tell me, are you the whiner that started truebluerino?


524 posted on 01/20/2011 10:47:19 AM PST by Darksheare (I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

I guess not much is happening in Europe.


525 posted on 01/20/2011 10:48:00 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Jim Robinson; onyx

Honestly, you have the patience of a saint!


526 posted on 01/20/2011 10:48:48 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: trisham
I guess not much is happening in Europe.

Even if it was their sheep aren't allowed to do anything about it.

527 posted on 01/20/2011 10:49:50 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: bezelbub; DJ MacWoW; Jim Robinson

Are you a male in the real world with a real job or are you just a bored, neglected housewife with too much time on your hands?


528 posted on 01/20/2011 10:50:34 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: DJ MacWoW; Jim Robinson

I do, too...LOL.


529 posted on 01/20/2011 10:52:14 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: bezelbub
What are you, the self-appointed king of minutia?

Who cares, and more to the point as JR asks, why do you care?

Are you the whiner that started truebluerino?

Inquiring FReepers want to know.

530 posted on 01/20/2011 10:52:25 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (I'm with Jim DeMint ... on the fringe!)
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To: Jim Robinson

I just read this and now I’m going to make a donation.

I am very glad to see this values declaration.

Count me in.


531 posted on 01/20/2011 10:56:59 AM PST by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

532 posted on 01/20/2011 10:58:13 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: onyx

LOL!


533 posted on 01/20/2011 10:59:57 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: kinsman redeemer

PayPal is easy to use and quick.


534 posted on 01/20/2011 11:00:42 AM PST by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: kinsman redeemer; Jim Robinson
WOO-HOO!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH kinsman redeemer!!!

535 posted on 01/20/2011 11:00:54 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: trisham

:)


536 posted on 01/20/2011 11:01:48 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Amen!


537 posted on 01/20/2011 11:02:27 AM PST by left that other site
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To: onyx

I haven’t that kind of patience. On the 4th poke I’d be reaching for the Zot!


538 posted on 01/20/2011 11:07:13 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: onyx

LOL!!


539 posted on 01/20/2011 11:07:42 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: kinsman redeemer

Thank you very much, kinsman redeemer!!


540 posted on 01/20/2011 11:09:41 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Nuke the corrupt commie bastards to HELL!!)
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