Methinks Free Republic would get more donations if its moderators didn’t listen to the small rude, obnoxious and hate filled cabal of paranoids whose mission in life is to witch hunt off the website those they deem to be “trolls.”
I’m sure there are some who’ve had disagreements with the moderators. I’ll even bet that mods are sometimes wrong. (For the record, I am not now nor have I ever been a mod or in any kind of position with free republic at all.)
But, one of my best memories about mods was when I was a young freeper some 14-15 years ago, full of piss and vinegar, and sass. There were times I was not a nice person. I remember once really going after a mod. I was insulting. (And sadly I was a Christian pastor.) I got a note from that mod via freepmail, and it said simply “Mods are People, too.”
It hit me between the eyes. I was using cyber-anonymity to be a jerk, and in my case a Christian jerk. I don’t know who that mod is or even if he/she is still around. All I know is that they helped me to think and to recognize a sinfulness that I was hurting people with.
Since then I’ve tried to read my posts before hitting send with my major eye looking for anything offensive to a person who, even if they sounded rude, might not have been trying to be that way at all. (Because of that I miss many grammar and spelling errors. :>)
So, this is all to say that the curse of sin sometimes reaches out and grabs us and has us do things we later regret. I honestly hope and pray that you’ll forgive anyone who has hurt you or any of your friends in the past.
We really need your gift, Darin. If you can help out, it will continue to help provide a conservative voice that is independent of control by daddy warbucks or chairman mao.
BINGO!