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.”

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Literally, laughing out loud!

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

Bump for later read

[spodefly]

My cats are cooler.

You're pushing it, Mister.

http://www.spodefly's-cats-are-cooler-than-strela's-pooting-cats.com

[redrock]

Wake me when it's over.......

redrock

[strela]

So much for my beautiful new keyboard ... I'll throw it in the pile with the 50 others I've sprayed with hot chocolate.

[Flyer]

Cute, real cute.

[FairOpinion]

Thanks for posting the History of FR.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/805832/posts


I am relatively a "newbie", so I had no idea.

God works in mysterious ways.

[Valin]

I'll respond to this as soon I've taken a shower.

Thank you.
I didn't really want to say anything...but.

[carlo3b]

Now this really Pi$$es me off, your total lack of unconcern for the few of us, after all that we have divested in you.. the blatant near narcissism. ..well, think it over, and sleep on it, you'll be tired in the morning, and can misjudge it better then... Sheeesh

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[dixie sass]

You just reminded me, have to put the old keyboard back together now that it's dry - just have to repaint the letters, numbers and etc on the keys.

Decided to see if I could, ummmmm, recycle them. Maybe I can make my fortune in recycled keyboards...............

[dixie sass]

Oh dear. What did (lol) you do now? Do we need to bring food, towels, clothes, cats (spodefly has beautiful cats), dogs, babies, band-aids, attorneys - what?????

[dixie sass]

Although I had to climb up on the desk, stand on my head, endure the blood rushing to my head, ringing in my ears and two bandaids on my forehead when I fell off said desk - that is a cool picture.

Afterwhich of course, I found out all that I had to do was turn the monitor upside down.

Blasted blonde genes...

[dixie sass]

Do you think it might be the same person?

[dixie sass]

The sound you just heard was me screaming when that, that, that thing popped up on my screen! My word - it's to early in the day to do that to a girl!!!!!

[dixie sass]

You know if you shaved the mustache off of Saddam, he and Bob could be twins... Maybe Dustin, Saddam and Bob are triplets? Things to ponder...

[dixie sass]

giggle...

[leadpenny]

Thank you for the gifted writing. You've made my morning.

[dixie sass]

blush, hanging head, muttering something about glasses...

[metesky]

Murderer.