I've been here over 8 years and I have. It's gotten worse with the election of Obama.
I believe you. Put me down for wanting to do something about it.
Ideas?
1) No pics of Obama's kids. It would be too easy for a team of trolls to work in tandem to put up a thread. The thread was started, I think, to show the disrespectful way they dress in public. Without the picture, any comments lose.
2) Hit the abuse button more often, particularly when it involves a child or a non-com.
3) Be alert for seminar trolls. And they don't have to be newbies.
You said — I’ve been here over 8 years and I have. It’s gotten worse with the election of Obama.
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Things have been getting worse in a general sense, over the years. People are accused of being liberals and trolls for simply having a different opinion than another poster.
I’ve said, recently, that a good working definition for a “troll” on Free Republic is basically anyone who disagrees with your viewpoint... LOL... And there happens to be a whole lot of people who hold to that definition... :-)
And yes, with the election of Obama, things took a real nose dive, and went down even faster than before (but it was already sinking that way, before Obama), I guess the real shock of having Obama be elected and realizing that there were that many liberals out there and how radical it all was, in terms of how our government’s policies were now going to be — was just too much of a shock to a lot of people.
I tend to look at these things as pendulum swings in which they have to reach the end of the swing before they turn back the other way. Politics has been this way for years. Even though I don’t like Obama, I’m sure that we’ll be getting rid of him soon enough, especially the way the economy is crashing.
You know..., you can say to him, “It’s the economy, stupid!”... :-)