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Please follow the below example.

To any moderators I have maligned.

I sincerely apologize.

Let us put all of this behind us.

I am sorry.

Joe

I, of course, apologize to anyone I maligned during the course of the conversation.

Gooood moooooorrnnning FREEREPUBLIC!!
Thanx for the very human words, Badjoe.
BTTT, God Bless America, and LET'S ROLL!!

Please follow the below example.

To any moderators Joe has maligned.

He sincerely apologizes.

Everyone put all of this behind you.

He's sorry.

Dainbramage

Please follow the below example.
To any moderators I have maligned.
I sincerely apologize.

Oakey doakey, but I have an hour to take a whack at the moderator that silenced me, right?

Just tell me who the little rascal is and we can move quickly to reconciliation with little bloodshed.

smiley face, smiley face, smiley face.
said in jest
meant to be funny...

Joe, thanks very much for posting this. I believe this is going to go a long ways toward starting the healing process. I'm hoping that no one blames the moderators for any of our woes. I am the guy who instigated the moderator program, established the rules and set the standards. If there is any blame to place, place it on me. Besides being broad shouldered, I'm hard headed. You can't hurt me. LOl

Seriously, the moderators only act on the rules and guidelines I set forth. They do not randomly ban people and they do not ban people they don't agree with. If a decision has to be made on someone that they've interacted with in the past and they believe there may be some bias, they usually recuse themselves and leave it to others. Furthermore, in most banning situations (except for emergencies or the very obvious), there is a group discussion and a consensus is reached before a banning takes place.

And even them some mistakes have been made and we've ended up reinstating the person. There may have been mistakes made where a person did not get reinstated, but again you can blame me for that. Those decisions are mine.

It is also my decision when any "old timer" gets banned. They're not making them anymore so I don't like banning anyone who's been with us for awhile. Actually, I don't like banning anyone at all, but sometimes there's no getting around it.

We are working on a new observer system and as soon as we get it installed we will select a staff to man it and will be available to explain all of our actions.

Joe, ya know we love ya. One of us has even experienced your gracious hospitality. But I gotta say this. If we are going to have a disagreement, can't we do it in private FREEPmail? I noticed this whole scenario was on the new website. Done with great pleasure I noticed too.

This is THE SITE. The one that gave a voice to all of us who felt frustrated and felt the need for a place that had like minded people on it.

That we get whacko's on here, is a given. I always liked that free speech was afforded here. See, Joe and us probably have differences of opinions, but we love him and Willa like family. I will defend then to the end.

If Joe wanted to see what was going on in a certain area, it is good to remember he was dedicating a ton of time to raising funds for this forum. BECAUSE HE BELIEVED IN JIMROB AND THIS FORUM. Pure and simple!!!

I've never seen a more active advocate for FreeRepublic than BADJOE.

Jim needs to be more of a participant, and we need BADJOE, and others like him. Otherwise, this forum will fade away like any other fad. Trust me!!

LOOK!!!!! The Conservative radio programs and even tv programs continue with a huge audience. That is because the majority of Americans want a place to expose their opinions. To SUPPORT this Government.

I don't mind dialogue, and intelligent debate. But it becomes fanatical. And then we loose credibility.

Joe.. you are very important to the survival of FR. If no one believes that.. then it is there SEVERE problem.

Jim, we all started long ago with you. *Though we can't get our original start date put on our home page!!!!

WE love this site,...and though they don't post, it has truly become a family affair. I cannot tell you how many people I have sent to this site.

WE LOVE YOU....

The other site,. well, God Bless them. They are trying. But when I saw some of the trouble makers there, I didn't sign up.

I'd love to sign up to more FR type of sites. But not until they feel brave enough to have control over their sites like JIM has had over his.

So as you can see,.. I love BADJOE, but we also respect JimRob. We think he is doing a great job of weeding out the chaff. Thats just our opinion. After all, this is a website developed by Jim. It is based on his ideologies. If people dont' agree.. then see ya.

When Jim for whatever reasons tries to leave that philosophy, he will loose in membership, and monies.

We love FR,..and we wish JimRob, and our buddy BADJOE well.

Love, US, the VETS

I do love this forum and I have a ton of respect for what you do to support it.

I have been guilty, several times, of what you speak about. Time to be more responsible in my actions.

I will contribute, again, to the next fund raiser.

Then, I will not log in for the next 30 days.

The quantity of - and the recently achieved sophomoric level of some of them - the pleas to contribute are intolerable.

The moderators do indeed need to learn some “moderation” – their bias is all too often openly blatant.

I understand the need for $$$. I fully support that.

Please filter who can post the solicitations and what those ads say.

That was a huge turn off the last round.

I know, I'll be flamed for even thinking of the concept of criticizing FR.

LVM