Posted on 11/28/2001 7:31:29 PM PST by Jim Robinson
--- I do happen to have made about 6800 total posts since I got here tho, in Jan '98.
When did he ever claim he did, smarta$$?
Chump change, my friend.
BTW, do you want to be the one who tells the people who really cannot afford to come here using "pay for play" that they can't come on FR?
I give MORE so everybody can come.
You didn't major in irony, huh?
And while we're at it, that lamer spelling thing never ceases to amaze me. Like somehow if you say a$$ or sh!t or b@st@rd no innocent children will figure out the missing letters. And suddenly, magically, it's not profanity any more. How old were you when you learned how to spell those words correctly?
You going to cuss, Jack, then cuss. Otherwise, I recommend "smartaleck" or "wisenheimer" or "smartypants" as the family-friendly alternatives.
BTW, when you said this a few posts back...
But these same people have also declared their intent to destroy FR, so consider the source.
...would you mind identifying who "these same people" are, and post a link to where that specific intent was stated?
Thanks.
Jim, I'm going to come out of voluntary exile everytime to answer erroneous statements you utter about me.
First, the messages were sent to all of us via FReep mail, not email, from Clarity. Since they were sent to us all via your own internal messaging systen, I presume the complete record of everything sent is on your servers, accessable via your software. Please confer with John to confirm. I have discussed the details surrounding my receipt of these FReep mails with John at RuR.
Secondly, I have absolutely NEVER declared any intent to destroy your site, nor have I ever harbored such an intent.
Now, back into the mists go I...
You fail to realize that all posters contribute by taking the time and effort to post here. As I always understood it, the main purpose of this forum was to accomodate conservative discussion. The contributions that members make are first and foremost, the coments that they make on the threads here. I sense an almost angry attitude from the contributors here that they are somehow giving everyone else a free ride. Why should this anger anyone here. There is no expectation for contributions here is there?
Nothing in between? Do you think Jim and John should live like monks? Maybe in a cave?
I realize that you are desperate for people to come there. It sucks to only have a few people to talk to, all agreeing with each other (or else).
Don't tell ME that I'm welcome to post. I'm not. You made that clear a very very very long time ago, when you kept banning me and anyone else who wouldn't agree with your tactics or policies, or viewpoints. You made a choice to operate a closed forum a long time ago. It's your problem if you have to live with the consequences now.
I avoid looking at your site, because it it dirty. The few times I have, I wanted to bathe afterwards. Cesspool, indeed.
That wasn't my point at all; my point to him was simply that if you make it pay per post, some people cannot afford it.
I'm against anything other than FREE choice. That being said, it does get on my nerves when people who most likely do NOT donate try to distrupt this forum.
Now, you're going to ask me how I would know they haven't donated, right? And I'm going to tell you that I don't know, but they'd be damn stupid to DONATE money a place they hate...........oh, wait a minute......never mind. If they DID succeed in closing down FR, they would have no life, so it's in THEIR interst to keep it going!
Their activism project is what occupies a large part of their lives and that is, seeking to destroy Free Republic and the "PTB." They are obsessed with it. "They" are the denizens that inhabit the "Darkside," the various anti-freeping boards on Yahoo, Delphi, EZboard and elsewhere. The boards come and go and the people keep shuffling their various allegiances for or against each other, but they all agree on one thing, death to Free Republic. They are mostly people who were banned from here or left in disgust or in protest of our policies, or politics, or management style or whatever. Many of them left because of petty personality clashes or extreme personal hatred for the so-called "PTB", i.e., me, Brian, Connie, Bob J, BadJoe, etc. No need to pretend. You've been an active member of many of those boards.
YEPPERS! Mojo could boost this thread into the most fascinating in FR's fascinating history.
But ON THIS THREAD!
And no pay-per-view until #5000.
I thought those WERE the correct spellings. And yes, your irony was lost on me.
You are joking of course.
If you've been reading this post...and I doubt that...then you would know that there is no "right" answer for those people.
this doesn't seem to be private as it asks for and accepts public money.
Wrong again, FR does not ask for public money it solicits private funds on a voluntary basis. If someone disagrees with the way it's run they should not contribute.
When Jim starts getting money from the appropriators in Congress then that will be a different thing all together.
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