Is "Free Republic" a scam?

[Archae]

I think it is.
Jim Robinson rakes in tons of cash from his Freepathons, not to mention teh events they promote, yet the site itself looks like something that's almost no cost at all.

[hughee99]

1. Let's see, who do we know

who continually supports politicians even though those very same politicians routinely screw them over at virtually every opportunity? Why should their online forums be any different then their elected officials?

[denbot]

2. The coservative base is a target for the biggest scam ever.

From trickle down effect, to Sarah Palin, everyone takes advantage of freepers and their ilk.

[TxVietVet]

3. I went on the Freepers site a couple of times.

They kept removing my posts. I guess they didn't like it when I was calling them stupid f*cking conservanazis. :kick:

[BlueJazz]

16. For awhile, I held the record for being thrown off Freerepublic 17 seconds. They didn't...

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..like me calling them a pack of "Dumb Ugly Bags of Water"

:) :)

[WeDidIt]

4. $320,000/year from "Freepathons" alone

And the site is using the same fucked up interface they started with all those years ago with absolutely no enhancements in the intervening time.

[Ian David]

6. Not to mention the money Bush made California pay them when they sued. n/t

[Archae]

10. I never heard about that.

Details?

[Ian David]

11. Some public official in California called FR a hate site.

Rimjob sued.

Bush ordered the sate (or municipality) to settle.


I'll see if I can google it.

Here we go:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x128845
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6097754
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1017284

Fresno.

[WeDidIt]

17. That whole episode was another scam

because Rim Job was posting entire articles verbatim on his site, got sued, and had to pay. That was how Bush kept the scam site alive.

It's outlived its usefulness now, which is why Freepathons last two out of every three months.

[leeloo]

20. Ian David said the Freepers sued CA and Bush made CA pay..?

[WeDidIt]

25. Free Republic was about to go broke because of the judgement against them

The episode where Bush told CA to pay up over the CA official calling it a hate site was the scam to keep the Freepers going when by rights they should have gone belly up over the LA Times judgment against them over copyright infringement.

[leeloo]

27. OK i know FR is a scam,but do you have a link so i can post it elsewhere,

Ian posted 3 links about bush and when i read them nothing mentions bush, actually one link is a DU poll,i post stuff on other websites and need evidence such as news stories,blogs etc...
Saying it ain't so.......

[leeloo]

13. Bush made them pay wow do you have the link?

[TxVietVet]

9. The freepers are a dumb lot. There was another bunch that was worse.

I'll have to see if I can remember their website. One of them came on our anti-war forum and was accusing us of being nazis. I called him a conservanzi and showed him the 14 characteristics of fascism. It blew his mind. I wish I could remember their name. They got so rabid against one another they shut the site down for quiet a while. I'll have to see if I can find it.

If you think the freepers are ate up with the dumbass, these other guys were even worse. They were active on the freepers also.

If the freeper site is a scam, they deserve it. They need to get screwed. The main reason is that they think they know it all. You can't tell any of them anything. They know all the conservanazi lies and propaganda.

[K8-EEE]

5. Well, everyone on it thinks GWB saved them from Saddam

Who was just about to murder us in our beds with his massive WMD arsenals.

So, yeah, they're def a bunch of saps. Easy pickins for Jim Rob, although it seems like it took all week for the freep-o-meter thing to go from 81% to 82%!

[Initech]

7. No it's a pyramid scheme.

[onehandle]

8. Yes. nt

[agentS]

12. Yes it's a scam, and they like it like that.

The site's pathetically simple because most folks accessing it are on dialup 56K modems, using AOL or a local ISP from their shack in the mountains, making meth, no teeth, growing wacky beards like the UNAbomber.

Anything more complex than FR takes too long for them to load.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. Yes. But, the suckers would probably misspell "scam".

[Posteritatis]

15. The visual layout of most high-traffic sites is the least expensive part

I don't know what their expenses for bandwidth, staff, and thisthatandtheotherthing are, but no matter what the quality of the site's layout that would be a drop in the bucket expensewise.

[Canuckistanian]

18. I wouldn't call it a scam

More like "heavily subsidized", thanks to the sugar-daddy who ALWAYS rushes in at the last minute to keep that site going.

That sugar-daddy always seems to find value in it, so it doesn't seem to him like money wasted.

I think there's some saying about fools and money, but I can't remember it right now.

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. I think it's a cesspool.......

......full of you-know-what.

[Archae]

21. I expect the right-wing lurkers to be jumping on my butt soon.

Hiya Stan! You too.

Any bets as to how long until one of the right-wingers, including the Freepers themselves, attack me?

[Hepburn]

22. No, but close.

Free Repuke is SCUM.

[progressoid]

23. It's not different from any other RW operation.

[GoneOffShore]

24. Kind of like asking "Does Ratzinger protect pedophiles?"

[chollybocker]

26. Audit his ass off.

[KonaKane]

28. The entire conservative movement is a scam.

And always has been. Ask Sarah, who even in her glacierbilly dumbfuckery figured out how to fleece the teabagging faithful with her bloated speaking fees and her stupid book.