LOL. Thanks very much. I welcome any show of sanity here.
It’s rare any more.
I made a list also, not, as some claim to hurt Free Republic but to try to assure myself that the crazies who seem to have taken over here are a minority.
I do believe they are but with their incessant posting, jumping on every thread to corrupt it with hate and lies, they seem like a bigger number than they are.
I had on my list a little over 100 people, some of whom post a lot more than others.
So unless FR has only 200 members... well, do the math. FR has a large number of members, many of whom no longer post much ... they have told me so ... because the the hundred or so who are obsessed with Romney hate.
Romney hate so strong that they’re willing to accept 4 more years of Obama. They will try to deny this but they can’t.
So my list is meant to help FR. If the more compulsive posters could be cautioned by management to cool it a little, not to lie, not to insult people, not to engage in nasty personal attacks, things would improve greatly.
Just tryin’ to do a good deed for Free Republic, but, as they say, no good deed goes unpunished.
Thanks for hanging in here.
I don’t hang on the threads that the Bad People take over... it’s too demoralizing.
Altura uses descriptions like "crazies"...
thread corruption ("hate and lies") -- minus any proof, of course...
"obsessed with Romney hate"
"compulsive"
ALL: And then he's got the nerve, the gall, after engaging in these kind of generic ad-hominen attacks to add: "If the more compulsive posters could be cautioned by management to cool it a little, not to lie, not to insult people, not to engage in nasty personal attacks, things would improve greatly."
No...Altura...calling strangers who you have psycho-analyzed from afar as "crazies," "obsessive," "compulsive" and several "hater" references couldn't possibly be "insulting" or part of "nasty personal attacks" now could they???
ALL: Altura has engaged in what we see is self-refuting dialogue. We don't know whether we should believe what he says or what he practices -- because the two contradict!
He has shot his FREEPER credibility (IF he EVER had any!)
Making and keeping a "list" of your political "enemies" on FR is "sane"?
But just to perk you up, since you seem to need it desperately, you aren't on my BBQ list.
I don't find it demoralizing. I find it distracting from why I come here.
I sure don't come here to see a bunch of cut and paste screeds, or "historical facts about the Prophets" of blah, blah, blah.
It's irritating to have to scroll down through ad nauseum same old, same old postings from the same people. It's like Graffiti, IMHO, It detracts from the threads. I find it visually offensive.
As for the various lists people are compiling, those posters piling on to other Freepers in an uncivil manner, and to those who are trying to get some of their fellow freepers zotted- I recognize the names of those whose posts I wish to avoid.
For any list compilers on either side of the, IMHO, non-productive website wars, I already said my two cents worth here.