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.”

[JLO]

In a jellied-fish type of way - lol. YUK!

Seriously...I LOVE the stuff (non-jellied---but cooked correctly) wrapped up in lefse, with melted real butter & salt! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - doesn't get any better than that! No kidding! Seriously! JLO

[P.O.E.]

Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien - NOT!

[maxwell]

Stalk shmalk. TP is my good bud and I ain't seen him in a while due to (and this will shnooker his lil' shnoggin, if I recommember some comments made in the past about my IQ level) doctoral dissertation writing...

Yep, they just hand them things out to any ol' fool these days, huh...

[Porterville]

I have got to say, I have been a complete jacka$$ many a time on this forum and have enjoyed the management. I've been using the forum for 2+ years and love it. I know that I am fallen but enjoy the folks that hold higher and lower moralities than myself.

[Fred Mertz]

I believe it's schmalk. What do you say mr. Ph. D. dude?

[maxwell]

[snortle]... Well seeing as how my training is in the hard [hehe, I said "hard"] sciences instead of in one of the so-called pantywaisted fields of academe, by which I mean everything but physics, I don't really feel qualified to expundiate on a linguistical topicality of this magnitudicism...

[Rocky]

Nice looking cats. Be careful, though. The one on the right has hypnotic eyes, and the other one is scheming. I suggest you put a video camera in your room and tape them to see what they do while you are sleeping.

[Rocky]

Proves what I've always suspected about body-builders.

[Nam Vet]

I'll raise ya'll another anti-opus. Sorry Cyber, but I'll chime in even though I'm another newbie. Put that in yer pipe and smoke it ! All 3 of you, please take note of my tag-line. I will leave you, my fellow FReepers, with the following thought.....

Professionals tell us that one out of four people are unbalanced.......Check three friends......If they're O.K., you're IT !

Nam Vet

[RaceBannon]

Am I logged out yet?

[DeSoto]

NON-ZOT ALERT!

Non-Zot???

How about:

UN-ZOT!

[Rocky]

the people posting now are better than the ones I started with in the long past

I have to agree. The first couple of years were brutal. I hesitated joining because of some of the unwarranted ugliness. I think we can credit cheese for softening everyone up. And ZOTs for the ones who wouldn't eat cheese.

[Exit148]

William Wallace, who posted this thread, has the same name as the guy who wrote the article.

Does he realize this?

[Rocky]

doctoral dissertation

You aren't Maxwell's demon, are you?

[tpaine]

I attack back to the ones that have anything interesting or amusing to say.

Max is a zero.

[Freedom2specul8]

Love it!

[spodefly]

Thank you for replying to the post of my cats. I have been becoming increasing upset during the course of the day because no one had remarked on the wonderfulness of my cats. I was just about to start a new article:

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Medium-time Freeper Has Complaints About FreeRepublic failure to respond complimenting his cats.
Self | May 8, 2003 | spodefly

Posted on 05/09/2003 12:31 AM EDT by spodefly

Atlanta, Georgia
May 8, 2003
For Immediate Release:

Medium-time Freeper spodefly announced today that he has some complaints about FreeRepublic. Spodefly claims he has grown increasingly upset and agitated that no one has complimented his cats after he posted a picture of them on the forum. This could be the beginning of future deep-seated grudges or pathological hatred toward forum management, moderators, and users. In fact, a new site called http://www.spodefly-hates-freerepublic-and-all-the-cat-haters-that-post-there.com has opened to express his increasing anger at the forum and it's users.

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Thankfully, it will no longer be necessary for me to post this as finally someone responded that recognized the overwhelming power of my cats, and was suitably complimentary of same.

Rocky has saved the forum from another opus / non-opus, and averted the wrath of spodefly and his cats.

[Rocky]

Wow! Hilarious. You really should start your own thread. We could all stay up another night writing non sequiturs.

[LurkerNoMore!]

Did you hear the latest about Lurkernomore!?

Vicious rumor. Unless it is something cool, in which case, is true.

[strela]

Spodefly claims he has grown increasingly upset and agitated that no one has complimented his cats after he posted a picture of them on the forum.

My cats are cooler. One of them actually stayed awake for 2 consecutive hours this afternoon, and another broke wind just as I bent over to scratch his ears ;)