Long-time Freeper Has No Complaints About FreeRepublic or its Management

Self | May 8, 2003 | William Wallace

[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.”

[maxwell]

Were you logged in when you wrote this?

LOL whatever it was, I missed it. Story of my cyber life.

Say what??!

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Where are those threads? Are they in the Smokey Backroom?

[Senator Pardek]

What you're spending on disinfectants today pales in comparison with what you'll be spending on therapists in 5 years.

[maxwell]

How about the coffee in the FR break room? There always seems to be half a cup left in the pot every time I log on. Why don't people know to make a fresh pot when they've taken the last full cup?!? And everytime there is coffee in the pot, it's DECAF!! WHO KEEPS MAKING THE *&#$^% DECAF?!? If I wanted decaf, I'd be drinking WATER!!

Dude... I think we're twins or somethin'...

[Nita Nupress]

What you're spending on disinfectants today pales in comparison with what you'll be spending on therapists in 5 years.

Dude, I only wish my yard, my laundry, my house, and my household germs were half as much in order as you think they are. LOL!

[Nita Nupress]

Okay, there can only be one dude per thread, Pardek, so you'll have to be a "dude-ette" tonight. :-)

Talk to ya later. One of the spotless children wants a book read to her.

[maxwell]

Does lutefisk have any correlation to the moose and cheese?

Nah... Just too many Pollacks around here... Hey you ever hear the one about the Pollack and the-- okay okay never mind...

[maxwell]

Okay, there can only be one dude per thread

DUUUUUUDE... Chick, that's totally harsh...

[JLO]

Ha! Nah, not every thread...just the funny ones about lutefisk or lefse, maybe...LOL!

[Senator Pardek]

The dust cover is a trap for germs.

[maxwell]

Wow this is the longest thread in a while that hasn't turned into

a conservative vs. libertarian p!ssing match

.... yet

And with that-- paging the p!ssiest libertarian I know... (No 'ffense, tp... ;)

Nyuk nyuk nyuk... I'm sorry y'all! The devil made me do it!

[k2blader]

Well, garn!

I'll buy a vowel--Harrisburg is your current location? :-)

[Nita Nupress]

I wonder if the screen name "Newbie" is taken? I wonder how many people will feel compelled to look after reading this question?

Here, I'll make it easy for you. Don't click here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~newbie/index?U=%2Ffocus%2Ff-news%2Fbrowse

Goodnight, Pardek. Nice seeing you again. You too, Fred. And you too, William. Nice thread.

[ladyinred]

OK. I'll say it: Your a looser.

Ah, but did he chose to be a looser, that is the real question. Everyone should get a choose.

[tpaine]

I knew it would only be a matter of time before some Rino/Cino had enough dutch courage to get pissy.

Congrats max, you be it.

[Fred Mertz]

TP, I didn't realize you get stalked too? How do you deal with it?

[potlatch]

The dopus opus!

[CounterCounterCulture]

Wow this is the longest thread in a while that hasn't turned into a conservative vs. libertarian p!ssing match

.... yet

Spoken like a true jack-booted statist commie liberdopitarian.

[maxwell]

TP! Hey bud! You dutch-bashin' pissy-arsed ol' coot, I ain't hollered at you in months. Gimme a big ol' libertarian bearhug. But keep yer hands off my genyoowine conservative Republican ass this time...