Informal Poll: Should Jim Robinson make money from FR?

Today, don't ask me to be more specific.. | Jhoffa_X

[Constitution Day]

Should Jim Robinson make money from FR?

Well, DUH!

Do I believe in capitalism? YES.

Should JR make money?
ABSOLUTELY!
POSITIVELY!
DEFINITELY!

[Constitution Day]

Your thoughts?

[stevio]

Yes, Jim should make a profit from this site.

[Howlin]

(Oops, she was thinking of her husband's join date, I guess. =)

Just so I'll know you know, when I first came here I was EMPLOYED by a network chatroom who did not wish for me to use my known nickname while posting. Once I no longer worked for them, I changed to the nickname I have used online since 1996.

As usual, facts have never gotten in the way of your posts.

[Carolinamom]

My answer is a resounding YES! He provides a marvelous and excellent service and deserves being rewarded for it. Why in the world should he work for free? My guess is that YOU don't show up for work gratis. I wish you would stop asking this silly and irrelevant question.

[Askel5]

What in the world did they have against sleepy little Free Republic back then?

Or was it a blanket rule for all non-company sites?

Just curious ... I'm used to corporations assuming rights to intellectual property, proprietary secrets and markets but identity's a new one for me.

[bert]

Success should be rewarded. Making a profit and getting rich are not the same thing.

I'm a conservative Republican who supports business, not a DemocRat socialist whiner.

[Askel5]

(P.S. I was going by the "facts" as presented on the thread, that's all. I doubt I'd have been interested in the least had I not noticed your making an issue of your join date elsewhere ... with Angelo, I think ... on the Commonsense thread.)

[surely_you_jest]

Of course he should. And I hope he makes a ton of it.

[Howlin]

I didn't make an issue of it; Angelo did.

Are all your posts this factual?

[Askel5]

Well, Angelo laughed and posted your join dates after you told him you'd been here longer than he. I would consider that your making an issue of it ... since he was responding to you.

I did think it was odd you'd make such a mistake. (Especially given the fact you're the type to remember your original join number! =)

Anyway ... it's not I who have my facts wrong. It's Admin Mod and RedbloodedAmerican who are going around telling folks the account was your husband's.

If you can answer my question without giving anything important away, I am genuinely curious as to whether a company can control the appearance and behavior of its employees' online identities.

(This is the sort of legal precedent in which my Mom would be terribly interested ... having died a thousand deaths at reading some of my posts and living perpetually in fear my sister and my penning some "Broadway Bound" send-up of our childhood one of these days ... =)

[BlueLancer]

I think the better question would be ... CAN he make money from FR?

[Eagle Eye]

Yes, let him make a pile. I'll help him by donating.

[Howlin]

Well, Angelo laughed and posted your join dates after you told him you'd been here longer than he. I would consider that your making an issue of it ... since he was responding to you.

Wrong again.

To: Howlin

Pardon me, Howlin, but I've been a member here longer than you. Since November of 1998. A lurker since March of 1998. I am a monthly contributor. I'm certainly not going to back down to the likes of you. Joe Everyman raised some very serious allegations. This is the first I've heard of them, and I am shocked. Do you have anything substantive to say, or are you just here to attack?

33 posted on 8/6/02 11:14 PM Eastern by angelo
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[Askel5]

Okay, you got me ...

I don't read the bs personal spats as closely as I should and made a poor assumption based on Angelo's posting of dates to prove you wrong.

I apologize.

So ... about the identity thing. Can you answer or are you sending me to the stacks?

[Howlin]

I thought you LOVED research, or do all those do all your other diatribes just appear on your hard drive?

I have no idea whether they can or can't. All I know is the did and I did. I wasn't going to make an issue out of it, but you can if you want.

[Askel5]

I do love the hunt, no doubt.

But I was just particularly interested in what insight you might have given the chat-based nature of your internet employ. You would think that would be an arena where anonymity would go hand in hand with the widest possible latitude for determining or controlling a person's identity.

Bogus identities have been a big deal lately and I could see precisely the need for a corporation to ensure accountability where its principals and their online identities were concerned.

Seems to me the lack of accountability where some posters here are concerned (particularly where they assume other identities to stir the pot at Liberty Post or "AF'er" sites) is hypocritical in the extreme given FR's strict policies regarding multiple identities ... particularly for FAB members. It seems to me one of the primary prongs of proving a person's disruptive intent and duplicitous nature.

It's been on my mind of late. That's all.

Regards, Howlin.

[FourtySeven]

I know of no true conservative that would deny anyone the opportunity to make money. If something sells, you have the right to make money off it.

FR is a service that many find enjoyable. Whether J. Robinson gets the money through "donations" or by selling the service is really irrelevant to me. (In other words, I think it's safe to say that if the Washington Post, LA Times and all those other rags would let him alone, I think FR would've gone "commercial" a long time ago, so the "donations" aren't really donations at all. They're people with consciences who use this site a good deal of the time, who are "paying" for the service.)

This is my answer to the poll question.

[SheLion]

Jim has given us a wonderful vehicle. And I know this costs a lot of money! Look at EBAY!

I am very willing to donate when I can to keep this wonderful forum alive. And if the donations go up and above what it costs to run this server, then Jim should have the rest. After all, this WAS his idea!

YOU GO, JIM! WE LOVE YOU!