Staying On The Subject

Personal ^ | 02/05/02 | Windy-Dave

[Semi Civil Servant]

Hey everybody, look, I'm post 100!

[hove]

I forget...who was the lead guitar player for the Monkees?? Man that dude could wail!

[American Preservative]

Nighty nite, T.

[Slip18]

Oh, you did it!

[Slip18]

Mickey Dolenz?

[Hank Kerchief]

Try again!

[Hank Kerchief]

Good for you!

That's some kind of cereal, isn't it? Hank

[South40]

Read any good books lately?

[upchuck]

Anyone know anything about Saturn cars? Are they reliable?

Don't know nuthin about their cars. But their station wagons are damned good. On my second one. Probably own a third someday.

[weegee]

There are many good topics started here but because of the inability to stay on the subject started, the debates get steered into the ditch.

I chalk it up sometimes to disrupters. A person who post the same rant 3 times inside the first dozen posts. Sometimes these people never return to the thread; their work is done as most people reading will be so outraged by what they've said that they feel they must respond.

Other times, they pick around the edges of an argument and never respond to posters' rebuttals even though they stay with a thread. Again, a single disrupter can derail an argument.

After awhile, some of the names keep coming up with this tactic. You can check some of the other threads a person has posted on to see how often they hold to this tactic.

Some of the other disrupters will post a democrat site sourced article or other editorial never to voice in on the thread. Some of the threads will run to a hundred responses without a single followup post by the poster. When they remain active posters, it is a suspicious act (tying up system resources and the time of those who are responding).

Certainly we can always find something to chime in on here on FR and some threads do nothing but provoke outrage.

[American Preservative]

And the winner is......hey! What happened?! Is FR down?! Am I logged in?! (Just kidding. Whew! : ) )

(In an FRemergency, all FReeperholics check in here for support - http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/freerepublic.com"

[weegee]

Hey everybody, look, I'm post 100!

Missed it by that much!

[weegee]

Hey everybody, look, I'm post 100!

That's some kind of cereal, isn't it? Hank

[Slip18]

I checked in there about a year ago under my screen name here. Well, I forgot my password. Then I got married, moved and have no clue how to get back in there. It always comes up that my name is taken. I keep telling Yahoo that it's really me. They don't believe me.

[Slip18]

Ah, Mr. Craw will appreciate this.

[weegee]

That has to be the single most ridiculous thing I've seen on FR. But then there was that speech from Tom Dashole, and...

[American Preservative]

Hmm...sounds like a problem for Dear Abby : )

(This particular column just happened to be there. It has no relation to your comment, unless you want to make up a witty remark.)

Seriously....sorry, don't know how to help on that one. You would think the yahoos at Yahoo would know who's who....or, is that, whom? : ) At least the posts can be read, even if you're not logged in there.

[lsee]

Have you written to customer service? I forgot my Yahoo password once and there was a prompt for them to email a hint to me. After only a year, your email and password should still be in their database. If you don't get the prompt while trying to sign in, email customer service and explain your situation. They are pretty helpful. Or create a new account with a new screen name. Don't miss out, dude!