At one point this spring, Breaking News had the last 3 Sunday Morning Talk Show threads, and the last Breaking News thread link was 28 days old.
The complete loss of control over content is a result of trolls purposefully sh!t-posting a tsunami of MSM sewage to flood-the-zone. What's different since the Plendemic is that the trolls have learned to simply pay the freight, offering minimal monthly support in order to operate out in the open.
Their sh!t-posting is specifically meant to drive off the Two-Decades Freeper Crew -- in the same way these same trolls have utilized DefundThePolice to force white men over 30 out of urban police departments -- and these trolls know that if they continue to be successful in driving out lifers, they will vastly reduce FreeRepublic's utility as the vanguard of consitutional conservatism.
Meanwhile we are made to understand that the mods don't want to be bothered by the potemkin petty conflicts engineered by these same malicious post trolls -- who then punch Abuse and bitch endlessly in threads about their garbage MSM article being removed (when it should never have been posted). This intended cognitive dissonance has apparently saturated and overwhelmed decision-making when allowing/disallowing sidebar posts.
What should deeply concern every Freeper is that much of this trolling is coordinated off-site by trolls who don't even bother to change their name they use here, or if operating under a different username, they brag about intentionally disrupting this site in the way that "Freeper Madness" used to encourage, but who is now roasting in hell.
Jim Rob graciously posted the Texas-shooting thread link IMMEDIATELY after my comment drawing his attention to the fact that the event wasn't yet in "breaking news".
Many thanks, Mr. Robinson.
Leni/MinuteGal
What happened to that site? I saw he posted my comments there, a couple times.