This site is inundated with democrat trolls/political establishment operatives. That’s one of the key problems. There are topics of legitimate disagreement between conservatives like The war Ukraine but there are just way too many never-Trumps for it to be organic. You don’t see this level of trump-hating “conservatives” anywhere else. Most conservatives know it’s Trump or America is over.
It can’t be that as often the worst comments come from people who signed up 10+ years ago.
I don’t know, it was pretty vitriolic here in the run up to the 2016 election of President Trump, pretty bad indeed. Also, this ‘Conservative’ site has a very large contingent of doctrinaire Republicans, who aren’t anymore fans of President Trump than Dems are.
I think this is due to the design of free Republic. It really doesn't allow for shadow banning so they either Zot you, suspend you for a period of time, or you keep on going. Because we don't have shadow banning the government has no other recourse except to send trolls our way to shape opinion.
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“You don’t see this level of trump-hating “conservatives” anywhere else. “
Where is “anywhere else”? What other conservative discussion/news aggregation sites are there?
“but there are just way too many never-Trumps for it to be organic.”
I haven’t seen them.
“there are just way too many never-Trumps for it to be organic”
There are too many here false-labeling others as never-Trumpers!
“This site is inundated with democrat trolls/political establishment operatives. That’s one of the key problems.”
There are many leftists who created accounts way back in the 90s who use those accounts to troll conservatives. JimRob used to have them zotted very quickly once their intentions were clear, but that has not been the case over the past year or so. I’m sure his ill health has something to do with that since he has not been able to stay on top of things as much as he did years ago.
Of course, we also have the recently created accounts who are here just to create division. The anti-Trump self-proclaimed LLR’s are the worst.
The best thing to do with repeated offenders is to hit the abuse button and then ignore them. Hopefully, they will eventually get banned.
I believe this site is supposed to be for “like-minded” people. If they aren’t a conservative they should go elsewhere for their daily dose of TDS.
“There are topics of legitimate disagreement between conservatives like The war Ukraine but there are just way too many never-Trumps for it to be organic. “
One can’t have a legitimate discourse on any subject if the only view some here will tolerate is the one Trump favors.
When a forum becomes an echo chamber, it begins to die .