Who's your new friend?
Posted on 05/08/2003 12:01:31 PM PDT by William Wallace
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
May 8, 2003
For Immediate Release:
Long-time Freeper William Wallace announced today that he has no complaints whatsoever about FreeRepublic. Wallace claims he harbors no animosity, deep-seated grudges or pathological hatred toward forum management and moderators.
“I’m not as active on FR as I was during the Clinton years and the election controversy,” Wallace admitted. “I lurk a bit, but rarely post these days.” Wallace went through a period where he spent most of his free time here, but now mainly uses the forum as another news source and antidote to the mainstream media spin. “For the most part, the forum meets my expectations and I am generally satisfied with it in this regard,” he said.
Wallace joined FreeRepublic in October 1998 and attended the impeachment rally in Washington, D.C. later that month. His participation on the forum has waned considerably since the halcyon days of the Elian Gonzalez saga and the 2000 Presidential election crisis. “I probably won’t even have time to respond to posts on this thread,” Wallace admits. “But I’ll enjoy reading the comments later, especially the insults.”
Wallace states he is basically indifferent toward issues regarding administration and operation of the forum that galvanize other long-time and former Freepers. “I’ve visited some of the Anti-Freeper sites,” he said. “The vitriolic fulminations directed at an Internet political forum and its management are surreal, entertaining and pathetic at the same time. Don’t these people have lives?” he wondered.
Wallace admits to occasional run-ins with forum moderators, including a couple of warnings from Jim Rob to “knock it off.” “I thought they were perfectly justified,” Wallace insists. “Once I received flack over a flame war somebody else instigated, but I never had the impression I was being singled out for punishment or treated unfairly,” he said. “It’s unreasonable to expect Jim Rob or the moderators to review every single post of every thread. I think they do a good job under difficult circumstances.”
Wallace understands that his views represent a radical departure from the norm for vanity and opus threads, if only for his total lack of resentment toward forum management and implied assumption that their purpose in life need not revolve around accommodating his every demand and expectation. “Believe it or not, I’ve never even contemplated posting a farewell opus or starting a web site exclusively dedicated to bashing FreeRepublic,” Wallace said, “or a web site dedicated to bashing sites that bash FreeRepublic, for that matter,” he added.
Despite his uncharacteristic lack of fixation with FR and its management, Wallace tries to resist the urge to stereotype all Anti-Freepers as disgruntled malcontents who should seek professional help. “Some clearly fall under this classification: Eschoir and his myriad incarnations for example, but others are misguided or troubled souls whose passion and sincerity I respect, however misdirected.”
No, this is Bob.
That's Bill.
Hey I've been called a Bushbot and a neo-Con. It was only a matter of time till I graduated to Suck up! ;-)
Are you ever going to get labeled.
I bet your one of those "Bush-bots" too, aren't ya? Huh? Aren't ya? Why, I oughta.....
Who's your new friend?
Actually, I'm from
Guess I'm
Calls for an anti-opus ping
I thought you lived in Hawaii. Why would you want to live here?
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