I've been here for years. To my knowledge I have had no problem with anyone on Free Republic until this week. Now this uproar happened.
Right now I'm still trying to figure out what happened. Why should I walk out just because a half-dozen people got mad who may or may not speak for anyone besides themselves?
If I've violated a rule, fine. I have no desire to do that. It looks to me like in December 2010, a rule was established that I knew nothing about. However, there's more in the links provided that have December 2010 and May 2011 dates than just the issue of full-text versus excerpts — I can see at least two and possibly more additional concerns. That's why I've sent private notes requesting clarification and I'm waiting for an answer.
This is a large board, I assume the administrators are busy, and it would be quite unreasonable for me to expect an immediate answer to late-night questions.
I've said it before and I'll say it again — if the rules here require posting full-text articles rather than excerpts, I'll do that. However, that's not the only issue.
IMHO, information about the Joplin tornado is helpful. I’m willing to relax the blogger rules in this case. But I’m nobody around here and I certainly can’t grant exceptions.
FWIW
Can you point to one single post that ask you to leave?
We are only asking, as the owner of Free Republic has stated, not to use Free Republic to drive hits to your web site with teaser posts.
Bring your content, share your link. If folks like what they read they can follow your link back to web site.