True, but it would never be as good and important as yours!
Note: Even though I think you get a little heavy handed at times, I can see you often have no choice 
Posted on 05/16/2004 12:59:53 PM PDT by jmstein7
"In Jim Robinson's home (Free Republic) I feel the same rules apply. He alone has the right to say what is allowed in his home, and we must respect that or leave!!"
This is not Jim Rob's home, however. Free Republic is a wonderful thing, it's gotten bigger than one person's personal website. This more like Jim Rob's Debating Society. he's built a public space that anyone browsing the net can amble into, that hundreds of folks post to every day. Lots of people now chip in money to support this internet Debating Society. The community, not just Jim Rob, now make what is FR.
So, we can defer to Jim Rob's vision since he's running it, but what that vision should be should be asked in terms of what is best for the whole FR community here.
"Comment #20 Removed by Moderator"
oh, the irony!
LOL
I'm not in charge vetting, no one is. And I'm not preaching to the choir. You should understand better than most why vetting would be necessary. Ultimately, if someone leaves in a huff, it's their failure. If they're banned, well, that's their failure too. An inability to appreciate that last point is a misunderstanding of terms like 'guest' and 'hospitality.'
True, but it would never be as good and important as yours!
Note: Even though I think you get a little heavy handed at times, I can see you often have no choice
I agree about the banning, but some bans have been very quick tempered. One night a young marine was banned for saying Reno investigated Clinton more than Bush did. I thought the ccomment was astute. He was banned for being a liberal. There is sometimes a mob reaction or quick trigger on these threads. All you have to do is have the wrong person cry to the moderator.
Since I state "If you are a troll", I'm covered. I don't get a tension headache or high blood pressure or ZOTTED.
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86 regarding banning.
"On the other hand, the mods can be a little nuts sometime."
Agreed. Sometimes some nasty freeper will accuse one of "stalking" or some such nonsense, in an effort to get one banned, and the admin mods jump down your throat before investigating and finding out that the complainer is a liar. They do apologize when they are wrong, though.
Me too and he doesn't even know why he was ZOTTED for life.
We do have liberal larry..I just had a discussion with him today...He likes Sy Hersh.I always ping him to good news that is happening in Iraq (or the Saddam torture pictures today)! He doesn't get over the line much and I even managed to help educate him about communists in government during the McCarthy era once.
"In a nutshell, we at FR do not support viewpoint discrimination."
There are many people here who support viewpoint discrimination, and flame those who don't jump on whatever the bandwagon du jour is. It's gotten so unpleasant that I don't visit as often as I used to...
"The Secret Service has "protest zones" set up far away from the President. A man was arrested for having a "F U G W" sign. The mentality of "you are with us or you are against us" so prevelant nowadays stifles open debate."
Are you unaware that this was just as intense, if not more so, when the Clintons were in office? Haven't you read anything about Hillary and her "goon squad"? This sort of thing is nothing new...it's just that it's reported in the mainstream, liberal press now.
Why?
My point was why trolls should be banned and why it is good for FReepers to flame the h*ll out of them when the do come here. We need to keep reinforcing the righteous and justness of our cause. We are right, and our ideas and ideals must prevail. We just need to remember why we believe and fight for what we believe.
And, I have worked my hardest to help get President Bush re-elected... and I will continue to fight to do so.
I think, though, that we:
a) need to keep focusing on pounding Kerry and
b) need to set our sights on the main-stream media and expose it to the pulic for what it is -- a left-wing propaganda machine.
I don't know if I would have banned him under the circumstances you describe, but it is also not my call. Further, since I did not see that thread, I don't know if he was banned solely because of the circumstances you describe. Finally, I don't know if the banned poster was a young marine.
Beats the hell out of me.
LOL
Why do you feel that banning folks establishes the righteousness of our cause. To me it shows an unnecessary use of power for power's sake. If you want to show the correctness of your position use words and engage the heathen interloper. What we have now is a game and encourages groupthink and a mob mentality.
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