Get Yer Ya-Yas Out [FR Moderating Gripe Thread]

[I Am Not A Mod]

LM here.

It's been a while since we had a thread along these lines.

I can tell from comments I am seeing in threads, on abuse reports, and in Freepmail that some people are unhappy with various policies and their implementations by the staff here.

I've seen allegations that certain factions are picked on. I've seen allegations that the moderators have killed activism. I've heard rumors that we killed Kenny, and even that we killed the radio star. I see certain personality conflicts acting up, and know that one (or both) sides in it feel that we aren't doing what we should.

So let's open this can of worms.

This thread is for making your grievances heard. If you think something stinks or is wrong, make your case here. Back it up with facts. Let the audience at large weigh in on your evidence.

I'll read the thread. Jim will too in all likelihood. So will the other moderators. Depending upon how well you make your point, and depending on if you can convince Jim, me, the other moderators, and/or the world, maybe you can change things. And if you don't, then it might make you feel better to have vented, so it won't make this thread a total loss.

I'm not going to reply to this thread for quite a while. Rather, I am going to sit back and watch to try and get a feel for the general tenor. I encourage those who are both happy and unhappy with things to particpate in this thread.

Let's rock.

[Howlin]

If you want people to rally to your cause, don't create sixth grade cliques. Nobody liked them at twelve and no one needs to join them now.

Well, gee, if Jim bans cliques, where, oh, where will you go to puff yourself as the moral schoolmarm?

You carp just as much under THAT screen name as you did under your last one.

[Rightly Biased]

"can trash somebody who isn't here

I really didn't think I was trashing her and as I have said bout two pages back I just didn't feel right talkin' 'bout her without her being informed.

And besides she's tough and don't take no stuff off nobody. "I was real scared"

[Texasforever]

Here's your problem - you're trying to correspond rationally with insane people - that also puts you in the "insane" column.

Oh so now she is insane. Yep Nopardons should be banned because of HER "vile and putrid" remarks. If you are a man you are a piss poor one.

[Quix]

I confess, I was a badboy, too.

I am tooooo often toooo slow about names unless it's someone I'm FREQUENTLY in contact with A LOT.

Nevertheless, regardless, it would have been fitting to have included anyone in the addressee list if they were mentioned.

But at first, I thought "nopardons" was someone who'd been recently banned and that I only vaguely knew. Took a while to sink in that I'd recently had a great set of exchanges with her.

My bad.

[Howlin]

Oh, FGS, is Coral Snake mentally getting off on nopardons again?

What a bunch of sickos they are. She and Todd make a swell couple.

[Jim Robinson]

You might try ignoring those who annoy you. I usually try to.

[Senator Pardek]

Huh? Ping whom?

[NYC GOP Chick]

LOL! You're sadistic!

[ShadowDancer]

ROTFL. God, you really are a special woman, Howlin. I am the last person who I would try to describe as a moral schoolmarm. Thanks for the trip back to the prarie though, Laura.

[onyx]

Come on now.

Who were you mocking?

Be honest if you can.

[Jim Robinson]

At the moment, Free Republic is a site devoted to blocking the leftists from taking control of our government.

[Senator Pardek]

Er - where did I claim that nopardons should be banned - or that her comments are "putrid and vile".

I'll assume you were trying to ping someone else.

[onyx]

Coral Snake is a wanne be tard.

A truly insignificant bitter old bag.

[Howlin]

No kidding? Well then why are you always turning up on these threads, carping about something or somebody who has offended you? and/or your moral sensibilities?

[Texasforever]

I'll assume you were trying to ping someone else.

Nice try. You called her insane. You are a poor excuse for a man.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

[Quix]

I think THAT

business of ignoring annoying folks

WOULD SOLVE 99.999% of the friction junk hereabouts.

But some 2 year olds have to play with the flames, it seems.

. . . and sometimes I'm too close to that age, too.

[Rightly Biased]

mark my spot for mornin'

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Now tell us how you reall feel.

[Howlin]

is that she will spar with anyone

Here's a clue: do not EVER get in an arguement with her about Trent Lott.........LOL. Whew!