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2022-11-28 --Tech & Moderator Notes

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Posted by badanov 2022-11-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Ah'm doin' my best.
Thanks for doin' yours.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-28 02:16|| 2022-11-28 02:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Amen

Posted by Frank G 2022-11-28 06:49|| 2022-11-28 06:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Ever ask yourself, why Fred's is pretty much the only collaborative fusion and opinion sharing effort of it's kind ?

Posted by Besoeker 2022-11-28 06:55|| 2022-11-28 06:55|| Front Page Top

#4 The team does a decent job of handling obnoxious and slanderous posts while maintaining an open dialogue of views. Elon probably won't do better.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-11-28 08:22|| 2022-11-28 08:22|| Front Page Top

#5 The team does a decent job of handling obnoxious and slanderous posts while maintaining an open dialogue of views.

Let's not damn with faint praise here. The team is doing a fantastic, superb, incredible job.

Posted by AlanC 2022-11-28 09:01|| 2022-11-28 09:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Many thanks and a little something for the tip jar.

Posted by jpal 2022-11-28 09:03|| 2022-11-28 09:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Thank you, badanov. You've done your share of the lifting too these past days. While you're not ripping up east Europe in your tanks. 👍

Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-28 09:34|| 2022-11-28 09:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Huzzahs and many thanks all around. By far, the best educational bang for your buck to be found.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-11-28 09:42|| 2022-11-28 09:42|| Front Page Top

#9 I stumbled onto Rantburg about 20 years ago and have enjoyed the education and the education. Congrats and thanks.

A few things I enjoy most is the context (often hilarious) with the articles and the added clarity via the comments. Other sites are so large they either have no comments or hundreds. Here I know who is kidding, who is angry, who is sarcastic, who is trying to help and inform…

Posted by Airandee 2022-11-28 09:54|| 2022-11-28 09:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Congrats to Fred, the moderators and our long time posters!

Posted by DarthVader 2022-11-28 11:05|| 2022-11-28 11:05|| Front Page Top

#11 Thank you, badanov. You've done your share of the lifting too these past days. While you're not ripping up east Europe in your tanks.

Damned separatists being supported by, you know, rogue Russian military...

Posted by badanov 2022-11-28 12:02|| 2022-11-28 12:02|| Front Page Top

#12 Hat Tip to Fred and Burg

Posted by mossomo 2022-11-28 12:26|| 2022-11-28 12:26|| Front Page Top

#13 Other web sites present the news without all the bullcrap that comes from MSM. Other web sites let people comment about the articles like Rantburg. But the mods and commenters on Rantburg seem so much more informative and entertaining than any other site I've found.

Then there's the War on Terror which has sort of gone into the background for America but has never really gone away. Nobody covers it like Rantburg.

Now we have the war in Ukraine. Nobody presents and allows all the debate, the differing opinions, facts and histories about this war like Rantburg. Special acknowledgement to badanov who gathers and presents a great deal of information and takes considerable heat just because he tries to be even handed about it.

I can't go back to being ignorant of the things I learn here. It might be easier for me. It might make it easier for me to get along with some of the people around me. But I can't do it. I think it'd be like getting a lobotomy.

Hat Tip to Fred Pruitt, a true American patriot, and all the mods.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-11-28 12:59|| 2022-11-28 12:59|| Front Page Top

#14 Kudos to Fred and the mods - looking forward to the next half million

Posted by Slenter Panda4300 2022-11-28 13:31|| 2022-11-28 13:31|| Front Page Top

#15 The spectrum of news and the experience of the commentariat makes this site invaluable. The mainstream is focused on a narrative to the exclusion of all else. I am profoundly grateful for the the quality and effort that goes into putting it all together.

Posted by Cesare 2022-11-28 14:01|| 2022-11-28 14:01|| Front Page Top

#16 There will be more than a million posts if you scumbags don’t cancel my comments in the future.

Posted by ACA JOE 2022-11-28 14:09|| 2022-11-28 14:09|| Front Page Top

#17 #16 There will be more than a million posts if you scumbags don’t cancel my comments in the future.

Then don't be a douche.

Posted by badanov 2022-11-28 14:21|| 2022-11-28 14:21|| Front Page Top

#18 ^ I think the mods are immune to flattery, Joe...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-11-28 14:22|| 2022-11-28 14:22|| Front Page Top

#19 #16 - that's a L we'll have to live with

Posted by Frank G 2022-11-28 14:34|| 2022-11-28 14:34|| Front Page Top

#20 That is sort of like being offered a French Kiss from Flav-A-Flav 500,000 times over. It’s a hard pass for me Joe.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-11-28 16:54|| 2022-11-28 16:54|| Front Page Top

#21 ….By the way happy new year.

Posted by ACA JOE 2022-11-28 19:07|| 2022-11-28 19:07|| Front Page Top

#22 Fantastic!

Posted by Woodrow 2022-11-28 21:21|| 2022-11-28 21:21|| Front Page Top

#23 Wow, 500,000! That's nearly half a million. Congrats, Fred!

Ever ask yourself, why Fred's is pretty much the only collaborative fusion and opinion sharing effort of it's kind ?

I've kinda wondered. Made me think that maybe the burdensome loquaciousness of some new visitors was a form of DOS attack. Not to mention the actual Denial of Service attack.

Posted by SteveS 2022-11-28 22:12|| 2022-11-28 22:12|| Front Page Top

#24 burdensome loquaciousness

You're a gentleman and a scholar, Steve.

Thanks as always to Fred and the mods!

Posted by Matt 2022-11-28 22:20|| 2022-11-28 22:20|| Front Page Top

#25 go VLAD the impaler go kudos in doing Gods work i am in awe! can i have a no bid post contract ?

Posted by Sluse Grealet9429 2022-11-28 22:40|| 2022-11-28 22:40|| Front Page Top

#26 Sure, Sluse Grealet9429! But in this context, what exactly is a no bid post contract ?

Posted by trailing wife 2022-11-28 23:31|| 2022-11-28 23:31|| Front Page Top

#27 I have been Blessed with all of your efforts to keep the Earth and Heavens a-brest of proper information and im-proper humor.

The expertise in the Burg range in many ranges for a functional retort to anything the world that would throw many: pearl clutching barren cat ladies into a lethargic anxiety attacks but for refresher courses in Reality.

The world is ending Every Day in the rest of the world, But since September 11, 2001, The Rantburg has been everlasting and faithfully there for any GWOT or more needs.

I need say nothing than more than Thank you Fred, Staff, Com-Patriots, and GOD for This Place!

I So Love You All, and GOD Bless YOU!

Posted by newc 2022-11-28 23:41|| 2022-11-28 23:41|| Front Page Top

#28 Long Live The Rantburg

Posted by newc 2022-11-28 23:48|| 2022-11-28 23:48|| Front Page Top

#29 No-Bid Contract: Everything You Need to Know

Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-28 23:48|| 2022-11-28 23:48|| Front Page Top

#30 What newc said.

Posted by Bubba Pholuque6299 2022-11-28 23:57|| 2022-11-28 23:57|| Front Page Top

#31 You have commented 20465 times on Rantburg.

So... since 2003... little over 1,000 times posting a month? Guess I'm online a lot since I account for 4% of the postings.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-11-28 23:57|| 2022-11-28 23:57|| Front Page Top

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