Way Too Many Vanities (Updated)

March 29, 2003 | Admin Moderator

[Admin Moderator]

There have been way too many vanities lately. The news forum is being overrun with them. We have been spending a lot of time moving them to the General Interest ("Chat") forum. With the increased volume we have seen with the war starting, we have been missing mail and other moderator duties, such as zots. So, here's some guidelines for vanities. Of course, there are exceptions to these guidelines. We have seen some great vanities.

Vanities are never posted in breaking news. Exceptions will be from valid news sources where breaking news is happening immediately. Such as 'CNN just reported Baghdad has been overrun by coalition forces'. Or, 'Fox reports that WMD have been discovered in Saddam's palace by embedded reporter'.

Your one line vanites, for the most part can be posted as a comment on an existing thread. If you want to post a one line vanity, post it in the chat forum. One line vanities consist of but are not limited to, 'Did you just hear that guy on KASD?'. Or, 'Does anyone know where that thread is about that women who said something about chemical weapons'. They will be deleted unless they are posted in the chat forum.

Most emails are not valid sources of news. Who knows where they originated from. They will be deleted unless they are posted in the chat forum.

Most humor threads should go to the chat forum, unless they are relevent to current events and news. Jokes and 'caption this' are also included. They will be deleted unless they are posted in the chat forum.

Freep this polls will be moved to chat depending on their revelance to current events.

Thanks for helping. Free Republic is growing faster than ever right now!

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WHERE IS CHAT?

At the upper right hand side of the latest posts or latest thread, you will see a menu which looks something like this:

Campaign Central
General Interest (also known as 'chat')
News/Activism
Religion
RLC Liberty Caucus
The Smokey Backroom
VetsCoR

To post an article in any of these forums, just click on that forum, and post your article. They all work the same way.

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Reference threads:

On War Images
Announcement Regarding the Breaking News Posting Category
New Numbers for the Curious (or FR Traffic Stats)
Loose Lips Sinks Ships
Welcome, and Thanks [Newbies Especially, Please Read]
Help us out, please search before posting an article.
Regarding Graphics During Heavy Free Republic Traffic
Topic Abuse, Particularly Activism
Traffic Rank for freerepublic.com (alexa)
a colorful comparison of daily site statistics
The Ultimate Sidebar Management Thread

[Admin Moderator]

We had an arguement behind the scenes about that one.

[Nita Nupress]

Hey, cut -&- paste this and it'll solve all your problems.  Just keep in your clipboard and you'll never have to type it again.

 

This thread has been moved to General Interest.

 

 

You're most welcome.  Anything I can do to help.

BTW, are you feeling okay?

[Nita Nupress]

LOL!

[Admin Moderator]

AM didn't tell me that! Where was I? I never saw AM and AM tell you, AM, anything about AM!

[Registered]

I can't wait until Jim assigns PM's, these AM's are getting on my nerves! Of course if the AM's had PM's, they would be even worse!

[Admin Moderator]

Are you singing our praises?

[Admin Moderator]

PMs is never a good thing.

[Registered]

I can sing, but I reserve it for those I truly love!

[Admin Moderator]

Am I logged in?

[Registered]

Never had a problem with PM's...thankfully!

[Admin Moderator]

OMG, it was like the latest scandal. AM's connection went down. In the meantime, AM was talking about the AM procedures. AM said that AM was working on the newest AM procedureds. But, AM wasn't sure this was a good thing, well, you know, AM just had to chime in with the new theory that AM's should follow the procedure AM suggested last week. But, you know how AM really had a problem with it. Luckily, AM spoke up, so now we are going to follow AM's recommendation. Thank goodness AM was there.

[Catspaw]

I didn't even get a chance to post a picture of invisible chemtrails before the AMs pulled the trigger on that thread.

I sulked for a very long time because it wasn't even zot-worthy.

[Admin Moderator]

If you keep this up, you might!

[Dog Gone]

I saw your post on that thread and thought it was the best one ever posted at this forum.

Now you can sleep.

[Cold Heat]

just how busy

LOL! And all the opus's said we would be so slow without them.

[Catspaw]

Thank you, Dog Gone.

I would've pinged you, you know. It would've been special.

[Admin Moderator]

I'm sorry. Really. Can you repost it?

[Catspaw]

SOB! I can't. It wasn't MY vanity. I don't even post an opette when I went on a three-week vacation over the holidays, so I have NOTHING. I do not have a vanity to call my own.

I did enjoy the Bust the Montana Freeman Out of Jail thread, but I didn't even post the thing. And it was from a newspaper and everything.

I'll be spending quite a bit of time in the next month or so coming up with a truly appropriate personal vanity that I'll post in breaking news because it's so very important to life.

[Registered]

Sounds threatening. Give it to me, both barrels!

[Nita Nupress]

I would've pinged you, you know. It would've been special.

I didn't get to see it. I want to see it. Did you ping me to it? Can you ping me to it now? It's probably not too late, but let me go log in first.