Posted on 11/28/2001 7:31:29 PM PST by Jim Robinson
I think Harry took exception to what he perceived to be a public mischaracterization of his behavior here."
That's cool........I understand. I don't want either you or Harry to think that I'm attempting to mischaracterize him or his actions; quite the contrary. I made it a point to even say "I'm not accusing" in my reply above. Think of my reply to Harry as "theorizing" why he might have been banned.........or just a lengthy question as to why, that's all. :) Like I said, I'd just as soon see him back here.
1. Why can't FR be restructured legally so that you and your family are not personally liable in litigation. This should be doable. Yo and your family shoiuld not have to worry aboutlegal exposure, and you are all entitled to be well compensated for your time and energy...
2. Have you reconsidered making FR a for-profit? From my perspective, it wouldn't make a difference to me, and I am sure that advertising could help to defray much or all of the costs....
3. I believe, as we discussed several years ago, that if you maintain the present status..(i.e. nonprofit)..then you ( FR) have to be transparent..and all costs and contributions should be displayed....
4.As a non-profit status..consider a basic two step funding..an annual charge of say $24..that's $2.00 per month...no one could object to that, and you could consider running the fundraisers as well, those who care to, are are able to, can contribute more........
If people would not be willing to contribute $24.00 per year for the privilege of participating in this community, then we don't need them..Also, since you will have everyone's credit card on file, you can institute a flat charge of $5 or $10 for each vanity post.....much of the bandwith is wasted by idiotic, even asinine, vanity posts, ( i.e. those which are not sourced from news websites )and just scrolling through them takes time.....so if someone wants to "self-publish" on FR..then can pay a small fee to do so....and if it curtails vanities by half..that saves nbandwidth and the site will be more productive, and user friendly.........
Your lawyer isn't by any chance Larry Klayman? We're all waiting to hear about your so-called lawsuit, shortly.
I'm not really sure. I'm fairly certain JimRob knows who I am, but I haven't really been openly derisive to anyone since having reincarnated myself.
Maybe JimRob just harbors a touching sense of nostalgia for people like me who've been posting here since FR's first year of existence.
I saw Pardek and Poohbah hunting you down like hounddogs on a thread not so long ago
Those ineffectual dweebs! They couldn't get themselves banned from a Bill Clinton rally! How the hell are they going to stifle a juggernaut like me?
Not to mention, my companies have numerous sites with many ISP's, and many others on dedicated trunk lines all over the planet. I can pop back up as needed whenever, and as whomever, I wish to. Maybe they just understand the complete pointlessness of what may well be their deserved objections to my electrifying presence!
;-/
Asking TLBSHOW about funding for the radio show is absolutely hilarious!
Oh, my sides!
Dasvidania, comrade! ;^)
Liberal disruptor....
Been there, done that...wasn't as fun as I figgered it'd be.
FReegards and hope you stick around awhile, my FRiend...MUD
ATTACK THE ATTACK DOGS WITH TLBSHOW
DEC 6 INTERVIEW WITH JEFF HEAD!
Now exactly why would any of us believe that now? I mean, after all, you KNEW for a fact that HOWLINFR wasn't me, and even after you had been directly contacted by more than one person, friends of yours, and told it wasn't me, you still posted the following:
From: Arator Jun-3 4:51 pm
To: ALL (1 of 43)
My initial instincts were that HOWLINFR was a parody of the worst aspects of Guilder-think. But, after going through and carefully excising her personal attacks, I am now no longer certain. There was an intensity of passion in her posts which would be difficult to fake. So, I offer the question up to the forum as a whole. Do you think HOWLINFR was the REAL Howlin or a Guilder parody?
I repeat, you are a liar and a fraud.
I'll be recieving a record of all contributions (through discovery motions) so I will know who is stingy out there.You are obviously not a lawyer. You will not be getting a list of donors, that can’t have any relevance to your suit, should it ever be filed.
The only reason you could be posting that is to try to discourage folks from giving. A rather dishonest and disingenuous post. I don’t have a problem with you coming here and spouting your anger all you like, but lies like that shouldn’t be tolerated, and I suspect and hope you will soon be banned for your dishonesty.
patent +AMDG
I should add: 'Tis better to breath free along the sunny (but frigid) shores of Lake Baykal then suffer some Neo-con's/Bushie's/GOPparty hack's/goose-stepping globalist goon's oppressions either in the FReeper Kremlin (FAB/"Anonymoderator" central) or the censorious conformity- inducing Gulag, otherwise known as "Free Republic".
Well, I think Jim Rob was hoping to invite the worst sort of AFing behavior onto this thread to gin up and "us vs. them" hysteria and spook the herd into a stampede of mindless reflexive donating.
I disagree. The issues of finances and integraty had come up with a few posters and it appears to me that Jim wanted to bring it all out in the open. Then, so that those who had raised the issues wouldn't claim banning or post delition was an effort of his to hide the issue, he opened the board. In wanting to confront it head-on, as a responsible man addressing a character issue would do, he opened the forum to those that might be noted for their absence and contribution to the discussion. I suspect that there are many days he is tired of this hobby turned juggernaut.
Unfortunately (for Jim Rob), I think that perceptive FReepers are realizing that us "AFers" are really just FReepers like themselves who have been mugged (or watched their FReeper friends be mugged) by FR's abusive management far too many times and, though banished, had the resourcefulness to maintain contact with our FReeper friends rather than slip quietly into post-banishment oblivion like so many others.
We do know that many of you guys are just past freepers. IMHO, Jim's macro, larger, view of the management of his site has often put individuals in the unfortunant situation that their micro, individual, view of their participation was misunderstood or at cross purposes to Jim's management. Any of us that have had a post or article deleted have the immediate emotion and reaction to draw upon, in an experience like this site, that is personal--like participation in an extended family gathering. Like that gathering, we sometimes side with the second cousin we never liked when Grandma goes over the top.
Again, IMHO, outside of Jim's macro task, his personal, micro, tendancy appears to me to be to visit and converse with past freepers, both in defending himself on the net at-large, but also because he knows that there are those that would be his associates if circumstances were different and he, by his macro actions, has cut them off from something they valued. If he didn't have a wisp of that, I think he would just ignore the issue and the individuals.
Perhaps, I am just pollyanna, thinking the best of people to easily. If that is true, then I will keep thinking that way because it enables me to both miss you (except for your most relentless moments) and value what I find here.
I hope your Christmas is grand; mine is looking to be a great one.
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