This thread has been the most contentious I’ve ever seen on Free Republic. I signed off the thread a while back, only responding to posts to me like yours was. I don’t know what else to do.
Maybe this thread will never be turned off. Maybe it will become a brawling arena where people can air their grievances to each other and have it out, where the rules are less strict than the world at large like a sporting contest or boxing/karate match. In the USA we used to allow duels with pistols. In the wild, wild west there were gunfights but over on the other side of the tracks, on the “good side”, the streets were quiet and order was kept sternly.
If anyone steps over the line and starts arguing with the owner, or tearing down a good conservative to build up their own candidate or outright lying or whatever nonsense it is that gets posted in the rules, they get zapped. Who knows?
Funny (strange) thing is, (IMO) this thread never even really got as bad as a lot of the Smoky Backroom stuff I’ve seen. The Creation/evolution threads got worse than this. Rumor has it the Terri threads were, too.
If some of the banned pushed a pro-abortion agenda, like *just sayin’* did, or pro-homosexual, like *Rex the Runt*, and they’re newbs, they’re obviously trolls and will get banned. Nothing out of the ordinary there.
And some virtually begged for it, either in actions or outright in words, and got their wish.
The real source of controversy seems to be over a few that were considered less than personable posters who had been here a long time. People who were attacked by them weren’t sad to see them go. Nothing out of the ordinary there either.
I just don’t understand why when the thread turned around towards reconciliation and healing and people wanting to let it go, some just didn’t want to.
Hey Kevmo! I think it’s a good reflection thread for sure. I look forward to posting my few ideas this evening.
Afternoon to all!
“”If anyone steps over the line and starts arguing with the owner, or tearing down a good conservative to build up their own candidate or outright lying or whatever nonsense it is that gets posted in the rules, they get zapped. Who knows?””
I like Iwo Jima’s post about FR as it relates to this thread.
To: RobFromGa
I think that where this is leading is that those who have used FreeRepublic to push something fundamentally contrary to the concept of conservatism have lost their springboard for pushing their views. They will have to go to some other forum to advocate their positions.
I am a libertarian who votes Republican most of the time and identifies with conservatism most of the time. Posting on FreeRepublic has never been a problem for me because, to the extent that there is any divergence between my libertarian views and the prevailing conservative views of this website, I do not use this forum to advance any contradictory positions.
That’s really not so hard to absorb, is it?
9,728 posted on 04/25/2007 4:59:17 PM PDT by Iwo Jima (”Close the border. Then we’ll talk.”)
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