Posted on 08/03/2002 10:16:57 AM PDT by justshe
(Regarding the answer to stopping the 'in-house wars')
The answer is for everyone to just stop doing it.
I know that is hard for some, because things have gotten to the point where now things are personal. There are wounds in some cases, and in others there is anger. Makes it really hard for people to stand down. Unfortunately, I am pretty sure it has been planned this way.
Earlier tonight thanks to a tip from someone who I wish I had listened to earlier, we discovered someone who had at least 8 different accounts. One bashed Horowitz, Swaggert, and Art Bell. Another bashed Keyes. Another posted as a rabid Keyester. Another posted as a Klayman basher. Several seemed to have a thing for mocking Registered.
What was the guy's game? Here is a graphic and caption off of the profile of one of them:
Yes, he wanted to get people fighting to where they would walk away.
One of this guy's incarnations posted a piece or two from anarchist website strike-the-root, which to me hints to what his ideology is. It would also explain why he had a knack for going after the DC chapter folks. I recall nrkybill (anarchy Bill) had some issues with you all. They are not the same people, I don't think, but if their ideology is the same and their main targets are the same, then it is possible that there is some connection.
Obviously, the goal is to drive people away. This is not happening on just one side, it is happening on all sides. It is a form of disruption that relies on the cover of good people engaging in flame wars with them so that the disruptors seem part of the mass rather than the agent provocatuers that they are.
There are two options, really. People can help us out in finding them by refusing to take part in the flame wars and being understanding when a person gets sent to the cooler, so that eventually the real problem children are rooted out.
And the other option is to let them win by letting them drive you away- with you being people from every single conservative faction we have. Rest assured though, if that one happens, if you make another home and it starts being successful, they will come there and do it to you there.
I've asked this before. I'll ask it again. (And this is not aimed at you, ... but at the forum). Please stop it with the personal attacks. One can have a rip-roaring take-it-to-the-mat political debate with someone without getting personal, without resorting to childish taunts, and still not have it be bland.
And the best thing that one can do otherwise is to use a little self-enforcement. A Bushie telling a Bushie to knock off the insults is going to probably work better than a Keyester telling a Bushie to knock off the insults, and vice versa.
My flame suits are back on, so everyone have at it again. But please at least think about it. Thanks, AM
You are a shallow cowardly hind, and you lie.
Luv always, .30
This is my approach. If I receive a responds that is not on point such as "Hitler would love you." then there is no point in going any further.
I read a lot more than I post. I have found FreeRepublic a fantastic source of information, and have been amazed at the type and depth of knowledge posters on this forum have.
Nay, radiant Goddess my sweet, I swear upon yon lecherous pantheon that idly sippeth the brow-sweat of man upon Mount Olympia, though I swoon to pen such verbiage as might tickle thine innermost sensibilities, I faint in mine own mortal unworth...
Go swaller some brews and let me off to cook some semblance of a repast for my beloved full-gorged puttock.
As I said back in #141 on this thread, I thought the flame wars were caused by, and were about, those who were trying to use the "divide and conquer" agenda.
You know, those "Republicans" who publicly - and even in liberal venues - state that they are "not Bush Republicans", and those "Conservatives" who file lawsuits against the administration in an apparent attempt to discredit it.
I agree that blind worship of or allegiance to any human is a bad idea. But there are ways to disagree with specific policies without giving the other side more ammunition.
Thine harsh words fallest upon mine ears like velvet rain, like the tears of the Moon-Goddess! Thine invective harkens me as sweet wine enfolding mine butt-a$$-nekked frame! O let me die at the steel toes of thy combat boots, whilst I rapture yet!
Huzzah! I go. And fleetly. Farewell mine demon-angel...
Thou caterwalling shrew casting dispersions.....
yunz are definitely joitheads...
now this sounds dirty to me, i don't know about you guys....
Well, the AM isn't talking about you. You only had, what, four accounts?
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