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

[Illbay]

You can't be series!

[buffyt]

Excellent point, I am member #1471, joined February 1998 and I didn't know that General interest was Chat! I had NO idea. THANKS for the info DogGone!

[FierceDraka]

I have only posted to call Indianapolis-area Freepers to help me Freep a Downtown anti-war protest. I don't post vanities.

BTW, thanks for helping to keep FR lean and mean!

[EdReform]

BTTT

[BradyLS]

If speakers have a tweeter and a woofer, why is there no meower?

How come you can surf the net but can't net the surf?

Why is it called a television _set?_

[Nita Nupress]

Excellent point, I am member #1471, joined February 1998 and I didn't know that General interest was Chat! I had NO idea. THANKS for the info DogGone!

I've met you and you're an intelligent, with-it person.

I feel so much better now.

[snopercod]

And why do our noses run and our feet smell?

[yooper]

"So, what you're suggesting is, instead of deleting a thread, we should lock it so you can find the original faster."

No, what I'm suggesting is, in unordinary times (which we are certainly in), you just let things roll along as they happen.

I realize you have a very tough job, but please realize that the majority of FR users, myself included, don't try to "find" threads; we take em' as they come, and speaking for myself, I hate clicking on a post and finding it removed. It's wartime; I want to get the news uploaded as quickly as possible, and I have been frequently stymied in the attempt.

Look, just use your own discretion; if the repost is regarding some irrelevant minutae, then fry it. But if it's an article which may have a prior posting (of hundreds of replies), let it go so that we (I) may reply without adding to the general higgledy piggledy of the original.

Thanks in advance and thanks for your kind personal response.

Yooper

[waRNmother.armyboots]

I agree with that. I have been lurking since 1999 and I still did not know what the Chat forum was.

[Constitution Day]

BUMP! Thanks for the hard work y'all do.

(and thank goodness we're seeing fewer E.Smart and other "True Crime" type threads)

[Cyber Liberty]

I'm sure you all will have more questions, so fire away!

Uh, yup. I have a question. Why does the Porridge Bird lay his eggs in the air?

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks!

How fast is Free Republic Growing during March?

[Admin Moderator]

There are a couple links in the main article. One to Alexa, and two FR stat links.

[LouisianaJoanof Arc]

i am not series......i am in a quagmire ;)

[Dont Mention the War]

I'm sure you all will have more questions, so fire away!

The only question I have is why nobody goes to the Chat Forum. I have only very very rarely seen a thread bumped from News to Chat that hasn't died an instant death. The only threads that seem to live in Chat are the "official" daily threads there. Other than that, it's a ghetto.

[techdawg2k]

You left out the part about your account being suspended for posting in Breaking News. Would love to see the Chat section.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, I got pinged by our Good Freepers.

Daryl, what road kill will be dinner tonight?

[Dont Mention the War]

BTW, this thread was posted Saturday at 8 pm. I didn't see it - and would NEVER have seen it - until just now, 10 am Monday, and that's only because it was bumped to the top of the Breaking News category.

Someone (::coughjohncough::) needs to come up with a way for Mods to literally ping EVERYONE when necessary, or force certain threads to stay at the top of a given category for a specific length of time ... or at the very least put a big banner across the top of each screen like during Freepathons for several days with a big giant link to such threads.

[Do the Dew]

Ping

[sharktrager]

Thank God.