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Is it time to dump Free Republic?
FR | January 28, 2009 | Me

Posted on 01/28/2009 10:46:53 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican

Repeatedly, FR moderators have moved TOP postings related to current NEWS and calls for conservative ACTIVISM from the News and Activism section, over to "blogger's and personal" which has no traffic by comparison.

I fully understand Jim Robinson's original purpose in launching FR, to provide a community in which conservatives could get TRUTH not available in the MSM, information not available in the MSM and access to fellow conservatives so that we could work together towards a conservative agenda.

Yet time after time, FR moderators bury this information over in "blogger's and personal" and kill story after story, vital to the conservative movement.

Why?

Without a change in this policy, I am through posting to FR. The moderators on FR have less sense than the moderators on DU, where they at least work to bury the opposition, instead of themselves.

What gives? Anyone understand this self-defeating policy?


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To: PlainOleAmerican

I don’t know, I can be a pretty rude idiot when I apply myself.

Don’t take the internet seriously, it isn’t worth it.


141 posted on 01/28/2009 11:49:38 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: PlainOleAmerican

Most blogs get posted or moved to bloggers. That’s what it’s for. Lots of people come here to promote their favorite blogs, so we gave them a place to do so. But there is no hard and fast policy. The mods have plenty of leeway with blogs or personal posts.

On the two examples you gave, yours is in news activism, the other in bloggers. There are no mod notes attached to either thread, so they’re probably right where the posters posted them.


142 posted on 01/28/2009 11:50:01 AM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: muawiyah
I was here 3 years or so before I figured out there was a different way to handle things.

LOL! Same here!

143 posted on 01/28/2009 11:51:10 AM PST by an amused spectator (Citizen Kenyan: Commander in The Effort Against Culturally-Influenced Misbehavior.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Anytime friend!


144 posted on 01/28/2009 11:51:19 AM PST by Constitution Day (Big Brotha Is Watching You)
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To: PlainOleAmerican
Yet, if the piece I posted had been printed in the MSM, moderators would have left it in News where it would be read by many more...

That is an assumption on your part, as I posted the links above, many of your Canada Free Press articles are left in news.. News has an element of "New" to it. No offense, but you are making a lot of stretch assumptions and taking this way to personally. For example, here are MSM editorials in the Bloggers section because they also are editorials.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2173625/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2173614/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2173524/posts

I've even seen Michelle Malkin stuff in Bloggers, so you are in good company.

Thomas Sowell a long time ago wrote a great article wondering if people wish you harm or well, and came to the conclusion that most people don't even think of you.. I think you should find that.. I'm sure the mods just seen an article, check to see if it is posted correctly, if it is an editorial that isn't "New" information (thus News) they move it.. no big whoop, nothing personal..

145 posted on 01/28/2009 11:51:20 AM PST by mnehring
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To: PlainOleAmerican
You REALLY need to work on your powers of persuasion.


146 posted on 01/28/2009 11:51:44 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: Constitution Day

I just about died laughing. Thanks again!


147 posted on 01/28/2009 11:52:10 AM PST by an amused spectator (Citizen Kenyan: Commander in The Effort Against Culturally-Influenced Misbehavior.)
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To: Billthedrill
ANYONE WHO SHOOTS A .45 INSTEAD OF A 9MM IS A GAY DARWINIST LOOSER AND ROBERT E. LEE WAS A CHILD MOLESTER.

I demand satisfaction!

148 posted on 01/28/2009 11:54:04 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Responsibility2nd
The piece had hundreds of hits in minutes, before being moved to Bloggers.... but, never mind.

Advice for the future... check Bloggers and personal in the future, not for my posts because I'm done here. But for REAL conservative news which can't be found in the MSM the moderators consider to be “real news.” Conservative news only comes from conservatives, which do not get printed in the MSM. If you don;t read them on the conservative news sites, you won't read them at all. But on FR, it's now news, it's personal blogging. And for the last time, I don't have a blog to promote. I posted a column that should have been of interest to any conservative.

149 posted on 01/28/2009 11:54:18 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: PlainOleAmerican

You need to go take a walk in the fresh air and calm down...if your beef is with the mods then take it up with the mods...STOP ACTING LIKE A CHILD!!!!Sorry I had to yell at you, but, since I have no idea where you are right now I can’t shake some sense into you.


150 posted on 01/28/2009 11:55:02 AM PST by crazyhorse691 (Obama is Americas new Forrest Gump...but with an oversized ego and ears.)
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To: Billthedrill

LMAO!


151 posted on 01/28/2009 11:55:16 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: BBell

In your email box direct from Debka...


152 posted on 01/28/2009 11:55:16 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: PlainOleAmerican

Good grief man. You are wrapped way too tight.


153 posted on 01/28/2009 11:55:35 AM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I didn’t leave anything out, did I? I mean, I was thinking of throwing maybe “neocon” or “bushbot” in there but it might have been overkill...


154 posted on 01/28/2009 11:56:06 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

If you want to help traffic, throw in something about the Confederate Flag, Obama’s Birth Certificate, and Scantly Clad Models.


155 posted on 01/28/2009 11:57:09 AM PST by mnehring
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To: PlainOleAmerican

“How many of you are FR moderators?”

Sorry. That’s classified. We can’t tell you.


156 posted on 01/28/2009 11:57:41 AM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: mnehrling

A long time fan... I have been posting his work here for years.


157 posted on 01/28/2009 11:57:42 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: Billthedrill

Agreed, brevity is the soul of wit.

Althought a CZJ picture would have been nice.


158 posted on 01/28/2009 11:58:37 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Just another Joe

“a documented news agency”

You don’t even realize the insane implication of your statement, do you? LOL

This is the point of my original question. Since the MSS (read: documented news agencies) don’t publish conservative truth in the “legitimate” news, what are the odds of complying with this nutty FR policy in order to get conservative news in the news section of FR?


159 posted on 01/28/2009 12:01:04 PM PST by PlainOleAmerican
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To: PlainOleAmerican

..and as you can see, they all aren’t moved to ‘bloggers’. At that, most I linked to are still news. It seems the only difference (as most others here have pointed out) is if it is an opinion piece versus NEWs. Don’t take it so personally.. put yourself in a mod’s shoes.. in addition to all the trolls, dealing with folks like me who are constantly smarting off and starting fights, and trying to organize the thousands of posts coming in, I really doubt they have time to sit there and search for your posts and move them to bloggers.. they probably just try to see, is this an opinion piece, is this actually news? If not, it is moved..


160 posted on 01/28/2009 12:01:25 PM PST by mnehring
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