[JustPiper]

First, I must say we have worked hard for nearly three months on representing what the President required of us, monitoring the WOT. It had 'occasional' chat thrown in. I will not whine public, I will not insult anything, but I will express my disappointment at being moved to "Chat".

AlamoGirl has researched and worked very hard, so I'm sure she can empathize how this hurts, we are relegated to 'chat' when our thread had provided all of us with things we never knew to protect our families, our cities, our very own neighborhoods.

I must acknowledge the Freeper's that kept the thread going to reach the point of seeming envy by spoken few.
Their purpose is lost to me, because they will still see tons of latest threads on this, so maybe they could tell us 'why' they moaned and groaned?

Thank you Mossad on beginning Part II and on with the work!
Don't let this defeat you friends. We love our country to much not to be heard!

[thecabal]

I'm extremely disappointed. I can believe the moderators when they say that the old thread caused technical problems and needed to be locked, but none of them have addressed why it needed to be moved into chat. I can only assume that it was making someone who has the moderator's ear uncomfortable. I would just like a straight up answer as to why the thread needed to be moved to chat.

It is very frustrating when it seems like one user (who could easily ignore the thread like anyone else) can shuffle the thread off to the back rooms at FR. Oh, and I guess personal attacks against all of the posters on the thread are OK here (mercy).

[Rushmore Rocks]

All of a sudden, the other threads do not interest me.
Sad, but true.

[Labyrinthos]

I must agree. I don't mind going to Thread II, but to put us on the same page as the Hobbit Gang is a bit insulting to all the hard work that has made this thread so great. I never thought we would last as long as we did. I'm trying to think of a newsworthy event short of what we are trying to prevent (I'm a poet and I didn't know it), that would get us back on the front page.

[WestCoastGal]

What happens when there IS a terrorist attack and we provided information that no one saw because we're chatting??

[mhking]

I will not whine public, I will not insult anything, but I will express my disappointment at being moved to "Chat".

Ditto.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for the ping!

AlamoGirl has researched and worked very hard, so I'm sure she can empathize how this hurts, we are relegated to 'chat' when our thread had provided all of us with things we never knew to protect our families, our cities, our very own neighborhoods.

Indeed, I have been involved with many a research project on Free Republic. Many were before we had separate forums for religion, chat, smokey backroom, etc.

I also agree that it is much better to have research threads in the main forum to encourage participation and seek out expert opinion. However, in one recent incident, I did ask the Moderators to move one of my research threads to the Smokey Backroom. It had become a flame-ette and was starting to clutter the political "latest posts".

[RepublicanArmy]

Thanks for the ping to the new thread Piper and I happen to agree with your post very much.

Mossad thanks for starting a second thread for us, it was getting hard to keep up with everything on the other one.