In-House Wars: For at least one, the goal was to drive people away.

Admin Moderator | 8-2-02 | Admin Moderator

[ohioWfan]

BushBuckeye works, but BushBrownfan is more accurate....... and I found Woody Hayes intolerably hot tempered and immature, besides which he never used a passing game appropriately. :o)

(Look for the Browns in the playoffs this year.)

W.....winner, wisdom, winsome, Walker.......take your pick.

rintense, I'll back you up. You've told more than one Bush supporter to knock it off when he or she got out of line, and rightfully so.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the flag, Saber.

I know you have always been polite and sweet. Hmmm well, maybe not sweet, hehehehe. :-*

[Sabertooth]

I know you have always been polite and sweet. Hmmm well, maybe not sweet, hehehehe. :-*

Gimme time, I'll grow on you.

[Victoria Delsoul]

How much?

. .

I'm talking about time, not how much you'll grow on me, hahahaha, couldn't help it.

[SamAdams76]

I've noticed increased hostility here too and I've been here since the very beginning. I have a thick skin so it rolls off my back. But I believe there is a concerted effort by some to disrupt and they appear to go out of their way to provoke arguments. Not a big problem if the rest of us realize what is going on. Just refuse to take the bait when somebody tries to engage you in a flamewar. I usually respond with humor or irrelevance and they usually go away.

[Sabertooth]

couldn't help it.

From what I've seen of you, I don't think you can.

[Victoria Delsoul]

And you ain't seen much, LOL.

[PhiKapMom]

There are definitely trolls and disruptors on this site among the Bushbots, as there are among the Bushbashers. Folks have soured on this forum on account of both.

Wanted to bump this profound statement and add my two cents. Am sick and tired of the fighting going on both ways and find it totally unnecessary! Some of these flame wars are started intentionally and both sides get totally carried away. If people would not reply to an obvious flame, then the thread would up and die! Or just make a one liner and the thread would die anyways.

Why try and defend anything when some posters are obviously out to cause trouble?

[AmishDude]

Something just occurred to me. I was once accused of "talking behind someone's back" and I realized that under the new format, it's possible to hold a conversation on a thread without reading any of the other replies.

It makes it difficult for people to police those of their own ilk because they don't see the offensive posts.

[PhiKapMom]

Consider myself a Bush supporter and you are one of my favorite posters and yes you have supported Bushie's on occasion. From what I have seen you are a straight shooter who calls them like you see them. May not always agree with you 100% but I respect your opinion and on occasion you have changed mine!

[Mo1]

May not always agree with you 100% but I respect your opinion and on occasion you have changed mine!

Careful .. he may bring out the other kitty .. LOL

BTW .. I agree

[justshe]

Don't understand your post. You mean by just using the 'view replies' option?

[My Favorite Headache]

LOL!

[justshe]

And I'm betting that your minds were NOT changed because someone called you a derisive name, or attacked you, but rather by intelligent, logical dialogue?

[AmishDude]

Precisely. If I post my comments to a thread and lose interest in it, then I only have contact with it via clicking on "My Comments".

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for posting this worthwhile thread. Have been tied up the last several days and missed the other thread on Hannity. You cannot imagine how disgusted I am at both sides of these continual flame wars and would like to know what the point to them is except to drive folks away!

Time for some people to grow up and quit acting like a bunch of spoiled kids who when they don't get their way want to pick up their ball and go home! Or the person everyone went to school with that HAD to get in the last word! Thanks again!

[Timesink]

Say, each moderator has a six month tenure and then they retire. Others take their place. With a six month retirement a mod could return for six months.

The same would have to be done with the FAB as well for it to really have an effect, and I think the chances of that happening are nil.

But then, I don't think the 6-month term limit on moderators will ever happen either. Like it or not, the reality is that FR has a Star Chamber in the background. I can only guess that it's made up either of people that JimRob knows and trusts personally, or of people who have been members since as far back as 1997 or so. In any case, 99% of us posters are never going to be invited into that club, no matter what.

(I should add that I've never seen any moderator or anyone else With Power act in an unethical fashion towards any mortal Freeper. I wish the Star Chamber would include more relative newbies who've proven themselves as serious posters over time, but I don't believe there's anything wrong with the way the men behind the curtain are running things.)

[justshe]

***Thanks for posting this worthwhile thread.***

You are welcome. I have poked my head back into this thread off and on today...and, sigh, I'm wondering if the choir isn't being preached to. So many that participate in the 'wars' have NOT weighed in here. And a dialogue would be so much better if BOTH sides participated. But I have NO idea how to 'invite' them to this table. Just my opinion and I could be all wet.

[justshe]

Can you explain what the FAB is and its' function? Thanks.

[Admin Moderator]

In no way shape or form am I blaming the flame wars on this particular person.

What I am saying is that the flame wars are providing cover for, and are enabling, people who wish to divide and conquer the conservative movement.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Thanks, AM