Banning good people like Peach, Mia T, Pukin Dog, etc. bothers me very much. I have truly enjoyed their contributions on many subjects, and frankly ignored the JulieAnnie stuff as tiresome for the time being until the process becomes more than a dog show.
Don't post a lot Jim, still not one of the "pillars of FR, but I think Pukin Dog had it right when he questioned why you were "biting the hand" so to speak. I thought it was the 'rats that were so intolerant of differing viewpoints. Hopefully you will reconsider your actions.
Pukin Dog opused out (again).
Thanks
Thanks to those who pinged me to newly departed freepers. As of last night, the “list” kind of got handed off to me. At the time, I didn’t think much of it and was willing to be “keeper of the list” and would have been happy to maintain a ping list. But after reading 24 hours of posts, I’ve changed my mind. I think it’s time to terminate it.
In my opinion, some are viewing the list and coming to totally inaccurate conclusions about the circumstances of many, if not all, of the departures. Some have entered the end of this thread to suggest reinstatement of certain freepers, without knowing the basis for their departure. Those who have taken the time to read the thread know what happened and it is probably best for the curious ones to go ahead and read the thread themselves. I have seen the list referred to as a “purge”, or of people being banned for supporting Rudy—neither is true. People were banned for a variety of reasons, none of which was supporting Rudy, and several cases were voluntary departures. One person attacked, maligned and carried on for over 500 posts before finally being put out of their misery.
I have also glanced at one of the “other sites” and found that there are a long line of folks, currently not associating with FR, that would be perfectly happy to come use one of their various FR screennames to come here and disrupt. It seems the only thing the list is doing is enabling them to misrepresent what has truly happened here so they can go back and be high-fived by their comrades.
As to comments of this being a blood-letting, or guillotine, I think that is an entirely inaccurate representation. I look at this more as the firing of an employee for attacking and harrassing co-workers, lying to customers, and/or sabotaging the company product—in this case conservatism. That’s my take, anyway.
At this point, I would encourage all those visiting late in this thread, or even those who have lost track about what it was all about, to go back to the original post and heed the message.
Sorry for rambling so long.
“Banning “good” people like X,Y,and Z...”
Statements like these make me wonder if people are actually reading the thread or just listening to these anti FR sites spewing lies. The former FR people are going out with abusive comments to the owner of the site in most cases. Some are just leaving because their idiot comrads were seen to be zotted. No matter that they went on their own accord or begged to go or just left.