Fair enough. Sorry if I was misread.
All I said is that there ARE trolls.
My impression is that the ratio of Freepers with honest differences of opinion to trolls is about 9,999 to one. Your mileage may vary.
Most freepers don’t post, they lurk.
It only takes a few trolls (especially if they are well-disguised) to do a lot of damage.
Let me ask you this: if there is even ONE poster in FR who is actively working to re-elect Barack Obama under the guise of “conservativism”, and that poster is very active and even somewhat persuasive (Romney is the same as Obama, yadda, yadda, yadda)... would that poster make you nervous?