Posted on 10/25/2001 8:59:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Ok, this is a free for all thread. Come in and take your best shots. I promise I won't delete it or get upset. Get it out of your systems and then we will see if we can solve the problems. There always several sides to any story and several possible solutions to any problem. I'd like to hear them all and I'd like to solve as many problems as we can and get this forum kicking socialist butt again instead of kicking each other. So, please anyone with a complaint or a problem or a possible solution, (moderators, posters, FAB, everyone) please chime in. Thanks, Jim
CYA.
2. Sometimes threads disappear and I don't understand why.
3. You rock.
LurderNoMore!: The doe should stay with the fawn. Send a buck instead.
LOL. Not only that, I can't figure who'd send in a doe to play short? I mean, I know that good shortstops are "endangered species" themselves, but there has to be a line drawn somewhere this side of rational!
At your service...
My other 1 cent: Another option could be a 'button' on the thread to request it for the breaking/front page sidebar; if X amount of FReepers make a request, it could be put in the appropriate sidebar section....
There are limits on what is acceptable to post and I think that's as it should be. Otherwise, FR becomes what its denigrators claim it is ("racist", "homophobic", "extremist", etc.). We should always welcome discourse with those who disagree as long as it is presented in a manner that is thoughtful rather than inflamatory.
Your title indicates you are accused of being too heavy handed and I've had some of my posts deleted too (usually for foul language or to make an obnoxious point that had to be made). Upon further reflection, I accepted the deletion and moved on. I guess others are too thin-skinned to do that.
These are treacherous times and, just as the media bitches about the military not telling them evrything about the war (those fools!), some here probably bitch about the multiple postings, the unsourced rumors and outright hysteria that sometimes gets pulled. You and your moderators have to sort out truth from lies, disruptors from agitators and what details could put our fighting men in greater jeopardy.
If you don't always make the right call, we should remember everyone is human and, right or wrong, we all live to fight another day. Bottom line, it's your site. I'm amazed you give some folks as much leeway as you do so I can't argue about being too rigid in posting guidelines. If I ran this place, I'd be a lot harsher.
As to the new software, my only peeve is that "last" got removed from the top. But that's a small sacrifice in return for automatically closing tags. Nothing killed a thread for me quicker than enormous screaming blue blinking crap that was inevitably never closed.
Thanks for all you do.
You want to turn one man's privately-maintained forum into a federal court complete with due process provisions, court and evidentiary rules, and an opportunity to argue and appeal? You--a man who hold rules and laws in complete disdain?
You don't want this elaborate system set up so you can "know" why you're being banned. You want it so you can ARGUE against your being banned. No rationale is likely to persuade you. You don't believe in the efficacy of rules and laws to alter behavior, remember?
The rest of us can easily deduce why any particular banning has occurred. I suspect you can too.
It's still there, in another form......
3rd link from the left at the bottom of every reply......
I'm with Selara, not only is this my browser's home page, I have no complaints at all, but...
This forum is highly addictive.(Kids, don't try this at home) There are times where I have at least half a dozen windows open following as many threads and times I've sat in front of this computer for many more hours than I care to admit. :-)
"Best danged website on the whole danged internet."
Big Media Lies!
I seriously do not believe you realize the damage that is being done to the reputation of Free Republic. Just when somebody new starts getting into it and is ready to spread the word to friends, a post or thread gets pulled for no sound reason and destroys that poster's budding love of freerepublic.
I believe you need a serious re-evaluation of the thread/post pulling crap. Or, just call it "Censored Republic."
But a lot of the more important discussion, the stuff of conservatism, is getting buried.
We had a post tonight in Breaking News about which "tribe" on the Survivor TV show got immunity, whatever the hell that is.
The moderators are making a good effort to police the place, and objectionable posts are removed more promptly. But their judgment is not perfect. I don't expect it to be.
But there should be better communication and justification for their actions. Obviously, very few people are going to agree that their post or thread should be deleted. That's a given. But some of those represent a lot of effort by the poster and it doesn't seem to much to ask that a reason be given for the action, at least if one is requested.
In general, I am thrilled to be part of FR, and I would be perfectly content if you changed nothing at all from the way it currently it. But more focus on conservatism would definitely be an improvement.
FWIW, my wife is always cutting out articles from the newspaper before I read it. And she never explains why.
What else is new?
I hope it couldn't be done... the BS would remain and no one could refute it then. And we would have endless keyboard lawyers trying to whine about the reasoning. It is just simpler for all concerned if JimRob just deletes what he wants to, and doesn't have to explain it in excruciating detail each time to the 'sensitive' types.
One of the best indications of a propaganda thread is to leave it up until it gets shot so full of holes that the aspiring propagandist or helper posts it again to begin a 'clean thread.' The idea is to tire all the naysayers down so that the propaganda eventually gets through.
Any time you think a thread mmight get shot down, save the thread on your system. I've done it since for a while, a disruptor could crap all over threads to force their deletion. Now, the disruptor can simply be removed and the threads have much better survival rates than before, but saving particularly interesting threads is still worthwhile.
He does have his work cut out for him, alright....
What am I doing here? I need to get to bed. My wife can't believe how much time I spend on this thing...neither can I!
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