Posted on 01/31/2002 8:32:21 AM PST by Admin Moderator
Way too many vanity threads lately. And way too much trash being posted. Please try to stay on topic (politics). Also, please do a search on a significant word from the title of your article before posting. This will reduce the number of duplicates. And, along these same lines, please use the original titles on your article posts. Do NOT edit the titles. Do NOT use "My Title" titles. This will also help to reduce the number of duplicates.
And, whatever else you do, please DO NOT post from DEMOCRATS UNDERGROUND (or any other such trashy un-American socialist hangout). Free Republic was intended to be a socialist free zone. We've gone to a heck of a lot of trouble to make it that way. Why in the world would you think we would be interested in having their trash posted here?
And QUIT trashing each other. You know who you are. Knock it off! Way too many flamewars and feuds going on. And, while I'm thinking about it, QUIT trashing our conservative candidates. If you want to criticize someone's position on some policy, have at it. But do not trash or smear the man. That would include Browne, Buchanan, Bush, Keyes, et al, or whomever else may be your favorite trashee (examples listed in alphabetical sequence). The idea is to get more conservatives elected, not to trash the ones you don't like. If you want to trash someone, make it a Democrat. Thank you.
And QUIT dredging up old communist propaganda to smear our conservatives. Sheesh! Whatever else you may think about our guys, they did not hijack airliners full of people and crash them into buildings. No, my friends, not even the dreaded CIA. Anyone who would believe (or even suspect) that crap is no FReeper. I've been pulling this crap whenever I see it and several people have been banned for continuing to post it. I do not want it on Free Republic. Any current FR poster who believes this leftist propaganda, please logoff immediately, send me your resignation via email, and I will delete your account.
Thanks,
Jim
All I am saying is that if Jim genuinely wants the Vanity threads to stop, the only way to stop it is to take action. He has tried the nice approach. It doesn't work.
Indeed. And those who would offer vanity posts should also cease all financial support of FR as well, since their filthy money would be insulting as well. That should cut down on the example of the duplicate FR fundraising requests that crop up repeatedly.
-archy-/-
For those who might be confused...
No. I'ts just for humor. Brain dead mutants can be fun!
No, that's a list of threads that have NOT been pulled.
PS: My reply contained neither foul words, nor epithets, nor slurs.
Well I've only been here about half a year but from everything I can see, FR is very much a community. I know-- and dig-- alot of folks here better than my own neighbors, because we share alot of the same ideologies as well as sense of humor... Yeah we could be all news and business all the time but that would detract from the warm and friendly community atmosphere that is one of FR's greatest strengths, IMO. It's certainly JimRob's prerogative to oust whatever he likes but he'll be doing the site a disservice if he cuts all vanities and whatnot...
Either Vanity Posts are allowed or they are not.Or possibly Vanities could be given their own thread for all vanities to post to daily. The thread could have a predetermined length of file size or time before it is cleared fresh(such as every 12 hours, daily, weekly, etc) to prevent the consumption of too much bandwidth.
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