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?
I don’t know Stilton might smell worse...
“OK, I’ll bite, what is/was the “news” in an editorial?”
Based on recent elections and current events in Washington DC, it is “news’ to most Americans, including many “conservatives” that the very people they just elected caused the problem in the first place...
At the end of the column is a call for “activism” as the government is about to dump a few trillion more down the crapper...
Maybe I don’t understand the FR definition of News or Activism?
..and you wonder why people are reacting to you the way they are. Many of us have been nice and tried to explain to you the best we saw it, a different perspective, even citing evidence as I have that posts do drop off, even in breaking news, and that news and bloggers are both a mix of sources from MSM and alternative media, not just relegating alternative media to bloggers and liberal media to news, but instead, you continue to insult the FReeper community and the people who work for the site. I recommend you have a drink, sleep on it, and come back to this thread and read it as though you didn't post it... look at it from the perspective of those who responded to you. Comparing FR to DU, insulting FReepers, calling to 'dump' the site, the response people give you is expected.
I work with a lot of Web 2.0 and 3.0 education sites and I can tell you, how these sites work largely depend on the community demand. Based on the fact that 99% of the responses here are disagreeing with you and all agree that these editorials you used as an example are not news, you may be better to (as another poster put it) sell the author as an authority that people respect and want to see as news instead of griping that no one sees it your way.
There is an old adage in writing, if your point doesn't come across the way you wanted it, don't blame the reader, look to yourself.
I too rise in defense of Slim...I have no idea who he might be, but I am sure he is a great American.
Oh Oh...now you’ve done it...hey thanks!
I told you how to change this around. Get out there and pimp JB Williams, or any other conservative writer you feel needs to be noticed. Run bios of these guys as a stand-alone post. Inform us. That's what Free Republic is about.
I always have to hit a Mark Steyn column, or a Walter Williams column, an Ann Coulter column, a Bob Parks column.
I know who these people are. I want to know who JB Williams is. Give me a reason to find out who JB Williams is. Capiche?
Understood (now...) However, I don’t need to know how to find it, I posted it. I posted it where the most people could find it, in News and Activism. I’m sure traffic counts would support this notion.
That is apparently the wrong thing to do, but I’m still not clear as to why?
My Momma still loves me.
I don't know of a single freeper who would commit alcohol abuse and an enviromental crime by scotching the earth. Why waste good Scotch?
Just start a ping list like everyone else does.
So instead of contacting Jim Robinson or one of the many moderators, you post a vanity.
Not very logical.
So I'm pinging them for you. You'd think that you'd be more informed after 3 years. guess not.
You are incorrect.
A very fair response, and informative. Thanks!
A perfect example of what An Amused Spectator is talking about is Zo @ Machosauce Productions videos on YouTube. His first couple of videos, people didn’t get him and there was a lot of complaints about what he was talking about on the thread. A few of us where big fans kept encouraging people to keep watching and we kept promoting Zo.. now he has a plethora of fans here always looking for his latest video and he has even gotten the attention of Andrew Breitbart. We didn’t just complain that people didn’t respect him as an authority, we sold him and promoted him (in chat by the way)..
Appreciate your civil effort to be helpful....
Ah...no wonder I didn’t know about the ‘slim’ part. I’ve mostly noticed the first part...I will definitely rise in support...for all that would be worth.
LOL....
More FR civility punk?
I am quite certain there is no ‘scotching the earth allowed on FR...now drinking it is fine of course.
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