Vanity Post on Vanity Posts, Duplicate Posts, Trash Posts, Commie Propaganda, etc., Vol V, No. 1

Free Republic | Jan 25, 2002 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

Way too many vanity threads lately. And way too much trash being posted. Please try to stay on topic (politics). Also, please do a search on a significant word from the title of your article before posting. This will reduce the number of duplicates. And, along these same lines, please use the original titles on your article posts. Do NOT edit the titles. Do NOT use "My Title" titles. This will also help to reduce the number of duplicates.

And, whatever else you do, please DO NOT post from DEMOCRATS UNDERGROUND (or any other such trashy un-American socialist hangout). Free Republic was intended to be a socialist free zone. We've gone to a heck of a lot of trouble to make it that way. Why in the world would you think we would be interested in having their trash posted here?

And QUIT trashing each other. You know who you are. Knock it off! Way too many flamewars and feuds going on. And, while I'm thinking about it, QUIT trashing our conservative candidates. If you want to criticize someone's position on some policy, have at it. But do not trash or smear the man. That would include Browne, Buchanan, Bush, Keyes, et al, or whomever else may be your favorite trashee (examples listed in alphabetical sequence). The idea is to get more conservatives elected, not to trash the ones you don't like. If you want to trash someone, make it a Democrat. Thank you.

And QUIT dredging up old communist propaganda to smear our conservatives. Sheesh! Whatever else you may think about our guys, they did not hijack airliners full of people and crash them into buildings. No, my friends, not even the dreaded CIA. Anyone who would believe (or even suspect) that crap is no FReeper. I've been pulling this crap whenever I see it and several people have been banned for continuing to post it. I do not want it on Free Republic. Any current FR poster who believes this leftist propaganda, please logoff immediately, send me your resignation via email, and I will delete your account.

Thanks,

Jim

[B4Ranch]

Two years ago, people rarely trashed another person. They would discuss why they thought the other persons ideas were off track. Today, the first thing people do is criticize the person. It's sickening.

[2rightsleftcoast]

Jim, do you think you could write a letter to President Bush and include all Freeper names. I mean real name and town if you wish. I give my permission for mine.
A letter of support from Freepers to make up for todays virtual march?

[Stultis]

please use the original titles on your article posts. Do NOT edit the titles. Do NOT use "My Title" titles.

I've heretofore presumed (and correct me if I'm wrong) that it is acceptable to do both/and. IOW, I will sometimes append additional material, in square brackets, after the complete and correct title. My thinking is that this can make relavant articles easier to locate in searches. For example I might post an article titled "Special Forces Deployed" as "Special Forces Deployed [Scud Hunt, Iraq]".

[Ethyl]

Posted by HairOfTheDog to Ethyl
On News/Activism 02/26/2003 11:05 PM EST #841 of 863

Recently I was going to post something, so in order to please the day posters, I bumped the previously posted post about 6 times, another poster helped with about 2 bumps and we couldn't even get near the top.
Oh dear. [scratches head]

One 'bump to the top' bumps it to the top. Copy/pasting an old post just to repost it does not make it more visible in the lastest posts than simply bumping the old thread does. It is not a cumulative process... When a lot of people are posting, it doesn't stay 'at the top' long.

Thanks, Hair, I'll use 'bumb to the top' from now on.

[HairOfTheDog]

Did you see this?

Free Republic Highlights, 2/27/03 ^

Your post gave them ideas! :~D

[Ethyl]

Great. and Thanks

[Ethyl]

Thanks for your help.

[Sabertooth]

I've heretofore presumed (and correct me if I'm wrong) that it is acceptable to do both/and. IOW, I will sometimes append additional material, in square brackets, after the complete and correct title. My thinking is that this can make relavant articles easier to locate in searches. For example I might post an article titled "Special Forces Deployed" as "Special Forces Deployed [Scud Hunt, Iraq]".

I sometimes do the same thing. It doesn't affect the FR search function a bit, so long as you keep the original title.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

bttt

[RedBloodedAmerican]

bttt

[TomServo]

An "I'm guilty, too" bump....

[RedBloodedAmerican]

bttt

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Way too many vanity threads lately. And way too much trash being posted. Please try to stay on topic (politics). Also, please do a search on a significant word from the title of your article before posting. This will reduce the number of duplicates. And, along these same lines, please use the original titles on your article posts. Do NOT edit the titles. Do NOT use "My Title" titles. This will also help to reduce the number of duplicates.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

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[RedBloodedAmerican]

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[Rebelbase]

Boring news week?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Have you noticed the number of duplicate threads lately?

[TomServo]

Have you noticed the number of duplicate threads lately?

I've been taking a break. ;-)

[mel]

I second that

[evets]