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.
Makes sense to me...
Folks:
Napkin User has been banned or suspended, I don’t know why. He was the keeper of the StopRudy ping list.
I don’t have time to read 12,000 posts, so that list came in handy for keeping up to date. I can see that it was causing more trouble than it was worth though. Rather, stupid sheeple were causing more trouble than it was worth.
Thank you for all your hard work.
You are absolutely correct. And it’s not a purge. It’s mass resignation either gracefully or via self immolation. Whatever. They’ve found a new home and I wish them well (but not good luck in their endeavors to elect a liberal).
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.
OK by me.
SAM_PAINE HAS BEEN BANNED! YAY!
Oh. Not really. Just trying to spread the rumor. I just had a bunch of meetings today and couldn’t post anything offensive or inappropriate today!
Have a nice w/e, all!
What’s the new freepers banned list at ? I noticed Howlin is gone ...