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Hey, mods...lighten up a little

Posted on 02/07/2003 12:06:53 PM PST by jra

Edited on 02/07/2003 6:57:16 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Do we have new rules today? I've seen more locked threads and deleted posts today than ever.

If you're getting hundreds of reports of abuse, I'd understand...but it seems that today the mods have itchy fingers.


MODERATOR RESPONSE:

I've seen more locked threads and deleted posts today than ever.
Since you have been around a long time, and because I have not done so in a while, I thought I would give an overview of all the locked and deleted threads today. If there are any you disagree with, I am sure you will let us know. Thanks, AM

First was a vanity that was essentially an ad for another website:

An Important Message from the Australian Prime Minister

Posted on 02/06/2003 4:06 PM PST by chrisjohn316

An Important Message from the Australian Prime Minister at A Memorial by An Australian

http://www.chrisjohn316.com

He also had a few prior bans under his belt.

The next one pulled was "Rally for the Troops at the U. N. in NYC at 12 noon on 2/15/03 Thread II". It was pulled at the request of the person who posted it. "The reason for my request is that some people are concerned that the e-mail auto responder and number that I set up might be used to gather personal information. That is not the case, but seeing as I am getting concerned freepmails regarding this matter I prefer the thread be pulled. In addition, I made the mistake of taking my own initiative in helping the organization of the rally and that seems to have caused friction in [our] chapter"

The next was http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/837678/posts as you can see was a duplicate post, with the pull message linking it back to the original.

Next was a post called "American In Bosnia". We got a complaint from a well established freeper that it was a bogus post, and while we were looking at that the person who posted it submitted "My post is not true please delete I hope this is the right way to get it taken away."

Then came "An Important Message from the Australian Prime Minister". Guess what, same as before.

Then we had http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/837882/posts which was another duplicate, linked via the pull message to the original, as you can see.

Then there was this one which also was a duplicate. It was not linked to the earlier post because there were no replies to it and the earlier post was the very previous one on the latest posts page.

Then there was "Man ticketed for having 'noisy' flag" which was pulled because it had personal information of a private individual in it.

Another duplicate linked to the original was http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/837974/posts here.

Another duplicate linked to the original was here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838004/posts

Another duplicate linked to the original was here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838045/posts

Now we get a sorta meaty one. "Georgia seems to be in the pits." Posted by a newbie as his first action.

The risky games of Shevardnadse cost the people of Georgia too much. Now it becomes more and more dangerous to live in Georgia. Shevardnadse is to blame for the present situation in Georgia (and not only here). He did his best to shelter Chechen bandits from Russian ‘federals’. Chechens of course didn’t waste time and just settled down in Pankisi. They used the area to store weapons and ammunition, to train terrorists and even (!) to produce poison gases. Only when Bush smelled the rat in Pankisi did our president came to senses. He only made a try to more or less bring order in Pankisi. Threats from Basaev and Udugov were fast to follow. Well, the words of Udugov from one of his interviews have just flashed through my mind. He recommended his people in Georgia to be correct and rather tough at the same time with Georgians for them (that is for us) to feel (!) the ‘power and threat’ of the Chechen fighters. Got it? Even then they felt themselves masters on our soil!!! They had the nerve to do it! And Shevardnadse swallowed it! Can WE swallow it as well?
That one has been banned before.

Another locked and linked duplicate here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838081/posts

Next was a post called "I got kicked out of DU!". Jim doesn't want posts about DU up, especially by newbies.

An ad for a book was next: "'Bible Code II' Predicts Year of End Time"

Next was "Department of Homeland Defense Web site---pitiful!"-- the person who posted it asked for it to be pulled since the website in question updated their information right after he posted it. All of four replies were lost.

A newbie posted "University Conference Focuses On 'Gay Language' " Turns out the newbie was a returning banned poster and when his account was nuked the post was pulled.

Another duplicate linked to the original: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838308/posts

A vanity titled "Should We Bomb The Vatican First???" was next. It had been pulled the day before as well.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838340/posts was another duplicate.

Then we have the Zots. All of these were posted by our daily trolls. You can click my profile for the history of the zots. But here are the links to all the zots- you can click 'history' on each one and see what the original post was, but in each case the poster was nuked because they were returning banned posters (who do this every single day):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838137/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/837975/posts

That's it. So which ones should we have lightened up on, out of curiousity?

I missed one in my scan of the report.

I pulled this one: "Rumor has IDF and CNN merging"

Hopefully why is self-obvious.


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To: Willie Green; Dog Gone; Admin Moderator; Lead Moderator; aculeus; general_re; Poohbah; ...
Looks like there's also somebody called Lead Moderator who has never posted anything at all! This is starting to get spooky!

It is spookier than you think. Lead here rhymes with red, not reed. Step out of line and BANG!

81 posted on 02/07/2003 6:28:39 PM PST by dighton
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To: dighton
There's that "Nasty Little Clique" thing again. ; ^)>
82 posted on 02/07/2003 6:30:07 PM PST by Vigilantcitizen (Teach a kid about firearms.)
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To: jra; All
I've seen more locked threads and deleted posts today than ever.
Since you have been around a long time, and because I have not done so in a while, I thought I would give an overview of all the locked and deleted threads today. If there are any you disagree with, I am sure you will let us know. Thanks, AM

First was a vanity that was essentially an ad for another website:

An Important Message from the Australian Prime Minister

Posted on 02/06/2003 4:06 PM PST by chrisjohn316

An Important Message from the Australian Prime Minister at A Memorial by An Australian

http://www.chrisjohn316.com

He also had a few prior bans under his belt.

The next one pulled was "Rally for the Troops at the U. N. in NYC at 12 noon on 2/15/03 Thread II". It was pulled at the request of the person who posted it. "The reason for my request is that some people are concerned that the e-mail auto responder and number that I set up might be used to gather personal information. That is not the case, but seeing as I am getting concerned freepmails regarding this matter I prefer the thread be pulled. In addition, I made the mistake of taking my own initiative in helping the organization of the rally and that seems to have caused friction in [our] chapter"

The next was http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/837678/posts as you can see was a duplicate post, with the pull message linking it back to the original.

Next was a post called "American In Bosnia". We got a complaint from a well established freeper that it was a bogus post, and while we were looking at that the person who posted it submitted "My post is not true please delete I hope this is the right way to get it taken away."

Then came "An Important Message from the Australian Prime Minister". Guess what, same as before.

Then we had http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/837882/posts which was another duplicate, linked via the pull message to the original, as you can see.

Then there was this one which also was a duplicate. It was not linked to the earlier post because there were no replies to it and the earlier post was the very previous one on the latest posts page.

Then there was "Man ticketed for having 'noisy' flag" which was pulled because it had personal information of a private individual in it.

Another duplicate linked to the original was http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/837974/posts here.

Another duplicate linked to the original was here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838004/posts

Another duplicate linked to the original was here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838045/posts

Now we get a sorta meaty one. "Georgia seems to be in the pits." Posted by a newbie as his first action.

The risky games of Shevardnadse cost the people of Georgia too much. Now it becomes more and more dangerous to live in Georgia. Shevardnadse is to blame for the present situation in Georgia (and not only here). He did his best to shelter Chechen bandits from Russian ‘federals’. Chechens of course didn’t waste time and just settled down in Pankisi. They used the area to store weapons and ammunition, to train terrorists and even (!) to produce poison gases. Only when Bush smelled the rat in Pankisi did our president came to senses. He only made a try to more or less bring order in Pankisi. Threats from Basaev and Udugov were fast to follow. Well, the words of Udugov from one of his interviews have just flashed through my mind. He recommended his people in Georgia to be correct and rather tough at the same time with Georgians for them (that is for us) to feel (!) the ‘power and threat’ of the Chechen fighters. Got it? Even then they felt themselves masters on our soil!!! They had the nerve to do it! And Shevardnadse swallowed it! Can WE swallow it as well?
That one has been banned before.

Another locked and linked duplicate here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838081/posts

Next was a post called "I got kicked out of DU!". Jim doesn't want posts about DU up, especially by newbies.

An ad for a book was next: "'Bible Code II' Predicts Year of End Time"

Next was "Department of Homeland Defense Web site---pitiful!"-- the person who posted it asked for it to be pulled since the website in question updated their information right after he posted it. All of four replies were lost.

A newbie posted "University Conference Focuses On 'Gay Language' " Turns out the newbie was a returning banned poster and when his account was nuked the post was pulled.

Another duplicate linked to the original: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838308/posts

A vanity titled "Should We Bomb The Vatican First???" was next. It had been pulled the day before as well.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838340/posts was another duplicate.

Then we have the Zots. All of these were posted by our daily trolls. You can click my profile for the history of the zots. But here are the links to all the zots- you can click 'history' on each one and see what the original post was, but in each case the poster was nuked because they were returning banned posters (who do this every single day):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838137/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/837975/posts

That's it. So which ones should we have lightened up on, out of curiousity?

83 posted on 02/07/2003 6:30:45 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: jra; All
Might as well give this response in the article body.
84 posted on 02/07/2003 6:31:17 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: Dog Gone
I should definitely get my training wheels as a Sidebar Moderator, although I haven't seen one in months and suspect they've all been banned by the cruel and inhumane Admin Moderators in order to prevent a coup.

The Sidebar Moderators control the Admin Moderators, they just don't know it.

85 posted on 02/07/2003 6:33:28 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator
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To: Willie Green
If Admin Mods can ZOT! there's no telling what a "Lead" Moderator is capable of. Makes me shudder just thinking about it.

That's akin to asking what a 20-meg ICBM can do. Thinking about it will only cause nightmares...

BWAHAHAHAHA!

86 posted on 02/07/2003 6:35:14 PM PST by Senator Pardek
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To: Admin Moderator; dighton
"So which ones should we have lightened up on, out of curiousity?"

I thought the "I saw Elvis at the Belagio" thread did not receive a fair shake. ; ^p>

87 posted on 02/07/2003 6:36:00 PM PST by Vigilantcitizen (Teach a kid about firearms.)
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To: dighton
It is spookier than you think. Lead here rhymes with red, not reed.

Chilling.

I suspect that you won't be around too long after making this speculation, which I don't agree with AT ALL Mr. Lead Moderator sir!

88 posted on 02/07/2003 6:38:43 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Senator Pardek
Thinking about it will only cause nightmares...

Yeah, I can't even call in to Art Bell about this anymore,
and I don't think George Noory is quite up to speed just yet,
At least with Art, I'm sure he would've seen the connection between Shadow Mods and the shadow people.

89 posted on 02/07/2003 6:40:32 PM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Dog Gone; Willie Green; Lead Moderator

Lead Moderator, recently declassified photo.

90 posted on 02/07/2003 6:42:36 PM PST by dighton
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To: Willie Green
There will never be another Art Bell.

What is it about the human mind that makes it so open to that stuff at 3 AM?

91 posted on 02/07/2003 6:48:12 PM PST by Senator Pardek
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To: dighton
Lead Moderator, recently declassified photo.

Nah, that can't be.
Not unless he's been spotted with an Admin Mod,
and I don't think they're allowed to be photographed together.


92 posted on 02/07/2003 6:52:05 PM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Senator Pardek
The more important question is what makes the human mind crave White Castle hamburgers at that time.

Come to think of it, these may be related phenomena.

93 posted on 02/07/2003 6:52:53 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: Senator Pardek
What is it about the human mind that makes it so open to that stuff at 3 AM?

Could it have anthing to do with the bars closing at 2:00 AM?

94 posted on 02/07/2003 6:53:09 PM PST by CharacterCounts
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To: Willie Green
I was suspended after that was taken. I couldn't help it, I was thirsty and Lead Moderator was hogging the apple juice.
95 posted on 02/07/2003 6:53:59 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: Admin Moderator
"We've restored many for people. "

Oh 'people'- but what about the rest of us? Why do people get treated better than us?
When has a mod ever done anything for an alien?
Lots of alien posts are rejected simply because they link to an off-planet web site.
The Earth time-continuum is so backward and crude that the luxorian-bescal data is garbled so you Zot the post for being nonsense. It that our fault that Earthlings won't invest in upgrading their planetary Kar fields?

And worst of all if we complain you act as if we don't even exist!

96 posted on 02/07/2003 6:54:40 PM PST by mrsmith
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To: Admin Moderator
The more important question is what makes the human mind crave White Castle hamburgers at that time.

You must be from NJ. My people are profiling at the moment.

97 posted on 02/07/2003 6:54:56 PM PST by Senator Pardek
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To: jra
I missed one in my scan of the report.

I pulled this one: "Rumor has IDF and CNN merging"

Hopefully why is self-obvious.

98 posted on 02/07/2003 6:56:33 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: Senator Pardek; Admin Moderator
The more important question is what makes the human mind crave White Castle hamburgers at that time.

You must be from NJ. My people are profiling at the moment.

Ah ha! I've looked at the handy White Castle map.

We now know approximately where you live, well almost.

99 posted on 02/07/2003 7:01:05 PM PST by katnip
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To: don-o
Dude, I was just messing around with him. Next time I'll put the sarcasm tag on my comment.

:)
100 posted on 02/07/2003 7:02:55 PM PST by ChuckHam
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