Posted on 09/26/2013 12:58:03 PM PDT by MosesKnows
First, Free Republic’s Web site is located here Free Republic.
Free Republic presents itself as the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism.
Let’s look around.
I see some areas in the left and right borders.
On the left are :
Alliances
Resource Links
Media Links
Legal Groups
Political Links
Government Links
Military Links
Now that’s impressive. Easy access to informative Web sites on a wide scale. Except for Alliances the groups are self-explanatory. I have been to Alamo-Girl.com and found an outstanding resource on an amazing array of topics.
On the right are :
Forums
Topics
Daily Threads
Talkshow Threads
Talkshow Links
Again, impressive.
In the center column, you will find that …
Free Republic, LLC is a non-commercial, limited liability company founded and operated by Jim Robinson (jimrob@psnw.com), a private citizen of Fresno California along with all you will ever need to know about Free Republic.
However, it is not clear just how to use Free Republic but it is very easy to catch on. No one needs register to read Free Republic Topics but in order to post an article or respond to an article you would register. I suggest you read some of the material and responses before registering because you’ll need a modicum of knowledge how to write in HTML
At the top and to the right of a bold Free Republic you see Forum Account Mail Pings Post Help Register and Sign In/Out. The only one of those that you will use is Forum. Click on Forum and you will be whisked away to a page containing articles and comments posted by registered Freepers. People who register and people who read Free Republic are often labeled Freepers. I haven’t figured out whether it is provocative or not but I don’t mind.
You are now reading Free Republic.
What you are reading is someone’s notion of something they’ve read, heard, or saw that compelled them to take the time to draft a HTML text document in order to share it with you. It was important to them but that doesn’t mean it will be important to you.
If you should feel the urge to share your opinion about something you just read you should use help on the home page. You will find all you need to know about registering and enough basic HTML to post or respond immediately. There is no cost involved. You won’t be alone, there are 300,000 registered, you’ll be 300,001.
I’ve become somewhat dependent on Free Republic and a few other sites. I found Free Republic via a link on the Drudge Report years ago. The first time I posted on Free Republic it was my recollections of a “March for Justice or Freedom” in 1998. I referred to pictures I had taken but I didn’t know how to post them. Someone contacted me offering to post the pictures for me if I gave them the files. Files, what files, these are photographs, on paper, from negatives. There are no files. My wife found someone in the printing business who scanned them and I passed the files to Free Republic. They posted them for me.
I still have one of the pictures and put it on Photobucket much later. I wonder if it is still there, I wonder if Photobucket is still there.
Guess what? It is still there. Constitution
This was new to me as it was to others. Drudge Report is another Web site I like but it is not interactive. In fact, I often see articles posted on Drudge referred to on Free Republic.
Think about what this resource provides you. Free Republic provides access to what 300,000 people find important enough to share about how many thousands if not millions of events encountered around the world.
It also got zapped by a moderator! Shoot, I don’t even remember what I wrote and it’s gone! Dang, and it was probably some of my best stuff, too!
I haven’t seen that in awhile, one of mine with the word ___hat was removed.
Then he IS your love guru, right?........sheesh!
History of FreeRepublic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1011545/posts
The 2007 FreeRepublic Lexicon (Lingo, Dictionary, Lore Handbook)(Draft)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874310/posts
Laz, I have a link to your version, but it doesn’t work anymore. :-(
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b2d48a420ff.htm
I’m an innocent observer.....
Yes, it was the greatest I ever read. I read it, it was to me. Too bad...they’re obviously insane.
I hope you all do the same.
Don't ask me why, but Jim never includes me on the monthly contributor list.
Not a problem...I do my part and that is all I need to know.
Nope.
Huh... I clicked on this thread and my Malwarebytes went nuts.
We’ll have to ask Lucianne Goldberg, who coined the term long ago (mother of the eloquent Jonah Goldberg and no slouch herself). Also, there used to be “freeps,” demonstrations by freepers. Could be a verb: to freep somebody or something.
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