Opinion of "nice guy, FF :)" reasoning

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At best heaps too much praise on bland and generally non contributing posters. Which is minor and not worth complaining much about. But at worse results in praise for quasi-white nationalists and genocide supporting North Korea apologists, so yeah, HR.

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Honestly, I'm rather flattered that you think about me so much.

I'm thinking more of a truly vile and utterly disgusting sh!tposter called TNF we once had.

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Also I really don't see how it applies to Santander, who's an asshole irrespective of his political views.

Horribly misguided politics, but I think his heart is in the right place. FF.

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I think there's something to be said for saying that posters are FFs even if you disagree with them politically. There are definitely posters on this forum who are good people, and state their case in a reasonable manner. The fact that I disagree with many of their views doesn't make them a bad person, in my eyes. On the flip side, there are also posters who I agree with a fair amount of the time, but who are enormous tools. IMO, the FF/HP rating should be at least mostly independent of whether or not you agree with their views. I'd hate to think some people think of me as a horrible person just because my views are different from theirs.

But don't things like obvious white nationalist sympathies and North Korea apologism go far beyond simply "different views"?

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The Manichean HP versus FF thing is a fail right out of the box. FP, BP and HP, as in Freedom Poster, Beta Poster, and Horrible Poster, would make more sense. Judging folks on the internet as people rather than posters is problematical.

Using Greek letters as adjectives in one of the worst memes ever. Let's not spread it further.


Also, from that thread Morden linked to:

Without a doubt, a true freedom fighter.

Looks like I'm not the only one who ever changed his mind about a poster, right BRTD?

Was jfern an effective right wing hack back then?

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Hey Tony here's over 40% support for a Trump troll on these grounds: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=244606.0