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, I can be a pretty rude idiot when I apply myself.
Don’t take the internet seriously, it isn’t worth it.
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.
LOL! Same here!
Anytime friend!
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..
I just about died laughing. Thanks again!
I demand satisfaction!
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.
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.
LMAO!
In your email box direct from Debka...
Good grief man. You are wrapped way too tight.
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...
If you want to help traffic, throw in something about the Confederate Flag, Obama’s Birth Certificate, and Scantly Clad Models.
“How many of you are FR moderators?”
Sorry. That’s classified. We can’t tell you.
A long time fan... I have been posting his work here for years.
Agreed, brevity is the soul of wit.
Althought a CZJ picture would have been nice.
“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?
..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..
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