[Quix]

2.) Put a leash on your moderators. Let people hash it out with each other, settle old scores and speak their mind free of fear from the zot. Intellectual discourse would once again set this place apart from the rest.

You could still maintain on a personal level your anti-Romney stance while allowing the members of this forum to speak freely without restraint. Jim, this was the Free Republic I joined over eleven years ago. It was a great place! (And I'd bet the money would start flowing back in as well).

INDEED.

I might be a LITTLE less free wheeling than that. I don't see any need to allow folks to trash Jim's CORE VALUES wholesale with impunity. However, the super rigid, super narrow, super prissy, super self-righteous, haughty, smug, authoritARIAN attitude of some of the mods has turned many many quality FREEPERS away and countless thousands of dollars.

SOMEHOW THERE NEEDS TO BE A RETURN TO MAJORING IN MAJORS and minoring in minors. And, if anyone needs to be zotted, it's the 'I'm god-like'-mods who have let power go to their inflated heads and zot fingers.

SOMETIMES it SEEMS like their greatest claim to glory and their greatest pride is convincing themselves that they've successfully played Jim like a piano against the FREEPERS they personally despise for mysterious reasons.

And that perception's just extrapolated reasonably from those significant numbers who have voluntarily bothered to comment to me. And they think my supportive-of-FR almost regardless replies to them are merely my own suck-up naivete and need for daddy Jim's approval emotionally and psychodynamically.

[mojitojoe]

And, if anyone needs to be zotted, it’s the ‘I’m god-like’-mods who have let power go to their inflated heads and zot fingers.

SOMETIMES it SEEMS like their greatest claim to glory and their greatest pride is convincing themselves that they’ve successfully played Jim like a piano against the FREEPERS they personally despise for mysterious reasons.
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There are some good mods and some bad ones, one in particular needs to be kicked to the curb and I think most know who that is.

[Dengar01]

SOMETIMES it SEEMS like their greatest claim to glory and their greatest pride is convincing themselves that they've successfully played Jim like a piano against the FREEPERS they personally despise for mysterious reasons.

And that perception's just extrapolated reasonably from those significant numbers who have voluntarily bothered to comment to me. And they think my supportive-of-FR almost regardless replies to them are merely my own suck-up naivete and need for daddy Jim's approval emotionally and psychodynamically.

Amen, see the hit posts on me on this thread. I was slandered by a closet case and stalked by a drunk. And ya wonder why I was having fun on our Whale Wars Thread!!!