Vanity Post on Vanity Posts, Duplicate Posts, Trash Posts, Commie Propaganda, etc., Vol V, No. 1

FR | 2/2/02 | Jim Robinson

[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

[Robert_Paulson2]

Tough room tonight. Thanks for the heads up. I guess that means I cannot put my pet peeve vanity post in as breaking news either tonight?

Drat.

:-(

[kayak]

Well, my guess is that you can put your vanity in but they'll play hokey-pokey with it and take it right back out .... :-)

[Robert_Paulson2]

ya think?

I do too.

[nunya bidness]

I guess that means I cannot put my pet peeve vanity post in as breaking news either tonight?

You told me you would say that.

[Robert_Paulson2]

I am robert's broken vanity post...

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

the well written vanity is a very imporant aspect of this forum to me.

I think that the definition of a well written vanity is one that does not get pulled! By that definition all vanities by the Robinsons, and the Moderators, are exceedingly well written. LOL!

[onyx]

Bump To The Top! Good show. Keep it up!

[Jordi]

 

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[onyx]

What a stupid post.

[Jordi]

So this is the definitive proof that you are a bunch of undemocratic nazis. You don't want to discuss anything. You think to be the sole depository of TRUTH. You can do as you want, fill your ears with cotton, but always remember:only God knows the truth. Expell me if you want. I accept to face people with different opinions, and i'm pride of this ,regardless my personal opinions. You don't. You FEAR to understand something that could change your mind. So either you aren't firm in your beliefs or you are firm but without enough arguments to defend them.

Old Communist.

[Bahbah]

No, here is your Bahbah. Hehe. Take care. BTW, I like a silly thread now and then.

[TaxPayer2000]

[Cyber Liberty]

I like silly threads too, but yesterday they were dropping like flies.

[Bahbah]

Big smile. Yes they were. And some of the Vanity posts were very informative, at least to me. I have learned lots about computers, digital cameras and the like. Also got some good laughs. I wonder, however, if the concern is bandwidth about which I know absolutely nothing.

[TLBSHOW]

I am the king of Vanities. And as a great example here

Dressed in prison-style striped clothing, one carried a sign bearing a Nixon-esque caricature of the senator and the words "I am not a crook," while his cohort wore a mask of her face. They called her election as senator a disgrace and said he had sold pardons during his final days in office, adding that they were dressed as prisoners to emphasize their belief that the Clintons belong in prison.

My 4 year old won't go back to bed. Oh man! Here I am ready to rock.....

I even got a plug in for Radio FR LOL read the thread...............hee hee hee

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I was told the other day by a moderator that a thread was pulled because it was "tabloid material". Is this something new? It seems "news" from tabloids used to be allowed.

[prisoner6]

Free Republic is an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America. And we always have fun doing it. Hoo-yah!

Some vanities ARE informative and fun. There've been a TON of 'em about cars, music astronomy and Lord knows what topic that haven't been directly related to politics.

Without a sprinkling of vanities we'd lose our personality and that's one of the main things that sets FR apart from other websites. Without allowing some personality to we'd become just another sterile political forum, and that's the reason I highlighted what I did in the text I excerpted from the FR front page.

Conservatives have enough to battle, and enforcing the stereotype of us being puritatinical, frumpy and anything but fun-loving folks doesn't help. I would wager the fun aspect and personality of this forum are two of the main reasons newbies keep coming back.

Tin-foil hats and rightwing-nuts banished!? God forbid! When I engage a leftie in conversation and they call me a rightwing-nut I come back without missing a beat, "Yup, I'm proud to be a rightwing-nut helping to hold the Constitution together as the leftwing loose screws fall out". Or, "I'm a member of the Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy" (aside - I can't remember which FReeper came up with that clever slogan but it's a classic). The thing is when I hit 'em back with something like that it might get a laugh...break the ice...and a worthwhile exchange might follow.

Perhaps the problem is like Topsey we've grown too big. Maybe FR should evolve into a FreeRepublic Nation...a disributed forum. Costs and responsibilites could be spread over a series of seperate but related websites. Kind of like peer to peer networking. I'm sure it would be clunky and ineffective at first, but with the correct software and participating sites it may eventually be justified. "Temporary inconvenience - permanent improvement", to borrow a phrase from PennDOT.

Just my 2 cents worth.

prisoner6

[kinsman redeemer]

Honey! I'm Home!

[prisoner6]

If nothing elese they were good for a laugh. And, if I remember correctly didn't several abloids, both here and in England, break lots of information in the Clinton years that eventually turned out to be true?

prisoner6

[TLBSHOW]

WELL IF IT BREAKS A CLINTON STORY THATS COOL, IF IT BREAKS SEX WITH GOATS? WELL YOU GET THE DRIFT.......