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!
LOL! Most likely they did not mask their IP but there is another way FR may be using and there are ways around it but my lips are sealed. I’m sure not helping the trolls or retreads.
Hooray for Free Republic!!
I just hate that I'm late to the party.
(How ‘bout a little music for the Viking Kitties.)
seconded....but I liked his old tagline better than his new one (short version....Nuke the commie bastards)
Like that even better than tea party! a much better cause/effect statement! tea is too general! The specific mission should definitely be to burn the big tent. Britain is doing it by cutting the umbilical cord to 900 or so quangos (quasi non-autonomous government organizations). We should target 9000 or so equivalents! (for starters). The side benefits are legion: don't have to fire union gummit workers when the entire department gets the heave ho! lotsa people get to find out what their productive life will be like when their counter-productive (gummit) life ends! etc! all good. they'll have to start paying taxes again (ie SS, payroll, etc)
And what about the woodchucks?
Well I’m glad that we give WTF something to think about and fill his day with an important activity such as posting complaints on a forum about another forum and it’s posters.
I have never broken a single rule here, that being said, I don’t like tattletales.
I didn’t post it. What you actually mean is that you don’t like me or FR. What don’t you stay at Tru Blew?
People who don't do anything wrong don't have to worry about *tattletales*.
Your comment is very revealing.
Your comment is very revealing.
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Talk about revealing comments....you just used the "honest citizens don't need to worry" argument for allowing hyper-intrusive big-brother government.
Yup. It is.
I've never been to Tru Blew but there's an army of Freepers watching the place and cataloging comments. They are amazed at the garbage spewed at FR and then these posters have the gall to come here and post as if they never spit venom at FR.
I ignore it as sooner or later the inevitable will happen. I'm enjoying watching. :-)
We’re talking about FR.
As I said in my post, these people post absolute trash about FR and then post here as if they are innocent. Trolling isn’t innocent.
Well, keep me posted. I sure don’t want to miss the fun.
I’ll ping you if I see something interesting but I have some ice I have to beat back. :-D
Hmmm.
Hey, Darksheare...isn't there a rule against trolling at Free Republic?
(I'm asking Darsheare since he's the one you trolled on this thread.)
You keep pinging me on this thread.
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