We have been posting them to the religion forum. The moderators, having very similar concerns as we have, decided on their own for a time to move open LDS threads to the News section.
RM, since the News forum was affected by this, can this thread exist in both forums, or would it be ok to post it again there?
Yeah - we've noticed.
If the moderators believe it should be moved, it will be moved.
Legitimate questions, framed within forum guidelines, were recently deleted from one of your threads, questions as to the inordinate numbers of doctrinal harangues appearing under the News/Activism banner.
Kept in the Religion forum where they belong, y'all can obviously post all the 50,000 word nonsense the Robinsons and/or your ISP will tolerate.
But the deluge of this stuff in the 'News/Activism' forums seems to me not only to be a flagrant disregard for the very same forum guidelines the rest of us are supposed to operate under, but also diminishes the credibility and integrity of FreeRepublic as one of the few legitimate forums for the conservative political thoughts/views of the average joe.
If this post gets me banned from the site, so be it.
I've been around this site since '98 under a long forgotten login, and since '00 under this one.
I've logged a couple thousand miles and a couple dozen hours helping man the barricades against the marxist scum in DC.
I've also contributed financially to this site over the years.
I've never aspired to be one of prolific pens of FR because frankly my other interests and work keep my time too limited to allow it, but this is where I've chosen to get my NEWS for some time, posting random thoughts as they struck me, most often in a (hopefully) humorous vein, as God knows we've needed some smiles the past couple decades for sanity maintenance.
Having been a loyal and supportive FReeper for a long time, it's my considered opinion that the tacit policy decision to allow so much religion spamming in the News/Activism section works to the detriment of this site in particular, and conservatism in general.
If I had any inclination to find out more about LDS, there's a whole Internet out there and I can do my own damned research.
But if I'd had no previous exposure to FR and got here by whatever circuitous route and saw 14 threads about mormon stuff on my first visit, it'd be a real good bet I'd think I'd stumbled into a big mistake and would NOT be back.
If the Robinsons have chosen to take a different tack re the religious/secular, it is of course their site and their right; I do however find oddly 'coincidental' the timing of this apparent policy shift in the midst of Jim's recent hospitalization/recovery.
(which I hope is quickly better, Jim :)
This wasn't/isn't intended to be an opus, but if that's the way it plays out, life will go on and I'll find something else to take it's place and/or just burrow deeper into the ol' bunker.
Cuz in the end I'm just one old guy who works with his hands out here in flyover; and folks like me have gotten kinda used to being ignored, and I've never been under any delusion that FR or the RightFight in this country can't manage without me.
And not that it's anybody's business, but I do believe in a God, but certainly not the one represented by these LDS threads/adherents.
/10yrs ?