Tight times at Free Republic

 Let's get it started with this post by Jim Robinson today:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4140533/posts

Please keep those donations coming in, folks. We need to bring in at least another $10K before the end of the quarter. We can do this! Let's get 'er done. [FReepathon]
03/24/23 | Jim Robinson

Posted on 3/24/2023, 8:52:05 AM by Jim Robinson

Please keep those donations coming in, folks. We need to bring in at least another $10K before the end of the quarter. We can do this! Let's get 'er done.

Thank you all very much!

God bless.


Gosh, donations to FR are down by 20%? Well that's just sad. 

Damned shame that Jim/Chris has been banning some of the most active financial supporters of FR for daring to express opinions and observations that they don't like. It's so shocking that when you ban people from your site that they stop giving you money. Amazing how that works, isn't it? 

In the forums the number of old accounts with a sudden and passionate interest in supporting the Russian conquest of Ukraine is noticeably increasing. There are also an inordinate number of accounts who joined in 2022 showing up with frequency on these topics and again with a passionate interest in supporting the Russian conquest of Ukraine. 

I found a new use for AI. 

You can use ChatGPT to analyze if certain posters on FR are using multiple accounts. This works by having the AI analyze the frequency of specific words and phrases recurring with these accounts. 

You can also use it to analyze grammar to identify a posters primary language. 

It's too soon for me to publish results because I need to validate the analysis against known accounts before I assume the analysis of the other accounts is valid. 

In any case I bring this up so other people can start looking at using AI to analyze both foreign accounts and sock-puppet accounts (multiple accounts used by the same person or persons). 

That is all. 

Comments

  1. AnonymousMarch 25, 2023 at 2:44 PM

    Counterproductive banning has happened more than once in FR's history. I'm looking forward to the ChatGPT analysis. There have been some older accounts that were active on Ukraine threads that just stopped posting without explanation. I wonder how that fits into things.

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