you’re welcome Iching. I donate a lot of money to FR and will probably hold off now based on seeing what I’m seeing other posters do/say. This JeanS and humblegunner, as examples, attacking people because of some blog post is ridiculous.
How can FR ever expect new members to come here AND DONATE if they get run off by others???
spacejunkie2001 to Fawn
completely idiotic statement.
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I know exactly what you mean!
Good call. There are many other obnoxious o-hole trolls here too.
They get especially indignant and start screaming caricature right-wing epithets, like immediately calling one a troll for disagreeing with anything they’ve said, and saying to get out of mom’s basement like we talked about OWS freaks a while back. One likes to aggressively rave about how learned and great AC is for having published MANY best-sellers, when AC was outed as not being much of a conservative more than a year ago and posting her pictures is no longer considered obligatory.
They seem to especially enjoy attacking me — plenty of recent history here.
I’ve been complaining for a couple of years how thoroughly FR has been infiltrated. New moderators here a little more than a year ago, too.
Sad.
Good morning ICHING. How’s your mom ?
As I explained last night, there was very good reason for JeanS and Humblegunner to do what they did.
There are so many blog pimps that attack FR, and we don’t have a fence on our border, so someone has to defend it. IChing’s pulled thread had all the attributes of ‘blog pimping’.
IChing’s sign up date made it look like he only signed up to post a link to that blog.
That was not what IChing intended to do, but that is what it looked like. Now we know better, and the problem is being resolved. What more could you want? Should we just let Blog Pimps run rampant on FR ? F.R. would get (deservedly) a bad reputation as just a Redirector for Blog Pimps. We might as well then put ADS on F.R. and let them pay the bills (meaning the advertisers get to call the shots). Is that really what we want ?
Gee, I got banned once, and it wasn’t even my fault. It got straightened out. I have had my threads pulled, for various reasons. I’ve even requested many of my own ‘comments’ pulled. Those of us who have been here a long time have developed a bit of tolerance and understanding, and seen the constant attacks that have to be dealt with.
You have no idea how difficult it is to keep F.R. safe for it’s readership. Besides, I’ve noticed that there are posters who call someone a troll (been called that several times by others, over the years, and called myself a troll, once) and EVERYONE seems to be HAPPY about jumping on the BANDWAGON and RUNNING OFF an innocent poster.
IF you want to blame JeanS and Humblegunner, blame me and everyone else on F.R.
Usually , Humblegunner and JeanS are correct about their complaint. I noticed no complaints when they were right.
But let them make one mistake, and you would think the world is ending.
Besides, IIRC, the ‘thread’ ICHING is talking about contains information from a source that is questionable (not the BLOG, but where the BLOG got the info).
Is this not correct, IChing ?