The purging started earlier than this; over the last year most of the conservatives who didn't accept the creationist line were forced out. Jim Robinson, FR's owner, has called evolution a Marxist plot and said that all science is political (which ironically is a Marxist sentiment).
The website is now a kook site, with people pushing geocentricism (GourmetDan), people who argue openly that slavery isn't a moral issue and is perfectly OK (taxesareforever), people who think surgery is Satanic (Editor_Surveyor), people who claim to be atheists but attack anybody who doesn't accept a literal Genesis as being Marxist homos (Sir Francis Dashwood), people who think the moon landings were faked (taxesareforever again), people who believe in crop circles and alien abduction (quix), people with ties to racist organizations like League of the South (pistolpaknmama and l8pilot), people who openly call for the nuking of Mecca (too many to name), people like EV above (Eternal Vigalence, AKA Tom Hoefling), a third rate political operative who hasn't backed a winning candidate and wants to drive out any candidate that has a chance to win.
The list is endless. Whatever is the reasoning behind JimRob's latest purges (is he getting paid to defeat Rudy? Is that even legal?), his efforts over the last year have only lessened the impact the site can have. Whether he likes it or not, the thing that people liked about the site was the ability for conservatives of many different stripes to debate and chat. Nobody knows what the new heresy will be, and whose head will be on the block next. Who wants to post on a site like that? Who wants to be told "Shove it asswipe!", as Jim Robinson himself actually told a Rudy symphasizer?
FR is a fish rotting from the head down. Time to make some chum and start over.
A number of science-minded conservatives started a website last May called DarwinCentral.Org
Like-minded conservative/libertarian leaning people are welcome to check us out.
The purging started earlier than this; over the last year most of the conservatives who didn't accept the creationist line were forced out. Jim Robinson, FR's owner, has called evolution a Marxist plot and said that all science is political (which ironically is a Marxist sentiment).
The website is now a kook site, with people pushing geocentricism (GourmetDan), people who argue openly that slavery isn't a moral issue and is perfectly OK (taxesareforever), people who think surgery is Satanic (Editor_Surveyor), people who claim to be atheists but attack anybody who doesn't accept a literal Genesis as being Marxist homos (Sir Francis Dashwood), people who think the moon landings were faked (taxesareforever again), people who believe in crop circles and alien abduction (quix), people with ties to racist organizations like League of the South (pistolpaknmama and l8pilot), people who openly call for the nuking of Mecca (too many to name), people like EV above (Eternal Vigalence, AKA Tom Hoefling), a third rate political operative who hasn't backed a winning candidate and wants to drive out any candidate that has a chance to win.
The list is endless. Whatever is the reasoning behind JimRob's latest purges (is he getting paid to defeat Rudy? Is that even legal?), his efforts over the last year have only lessened the impact the site can have. Whether he likes it or not, the thing that people liked about the site was the ability for conservatives of many different stripes to debate and chat. Nobody knows what the new heresy will be, and whose head will be on the block next. Who wants to post on a site like that? Who wants to be told "Shove it asswipe!", as Jim Robinson himself actually told a Rudy symphasizer?
FR is a fish rotting from the head down. Time to make some chum and start over.
A number of science-minded conservatives started a website last May called DarwinCentral.Org
Like-minded conservative/libertarian leaning people are welcome to check us out.