I miss some of the exiles, but it’s been clear for a long time that Jim did not want any Giuliani campaigning on the forum. Perhaps the situation can be reevaluated next year after the party nominees have been chosen. We’re going to need all of the help we can get to stop Hillary.
I think “campaigning” is the distinction. There were some posters who sounded like paid campaign staff, constantly posting repetitive and predictable stick-to-the-talking-points stuff. Maybe they got banned, but people who have posted meaningful pro-Rudy viewpoints, like yours truly, haven’t. I’m not a “Rudybot”. I’m fine with his abortion stance, but concerned about his RKBA stance (despite the fact that he’s moving in the right direction) and his general comfort level with socialist programs. Of the current viable candidates, I lean towards Romney, mainly due his extensive and impressive private sector experience. But as someone who lived in NYC through Rudy’s tenure as mayor, I don’t buy into any hyperbole about how Rudy’s so awful that we might as well have Hillary as our President if our only alternative in the general election were to be Rudy. David Dinkins (Rudy’s predecessor) was that awful, but not Rudy.
The silliest aspect of this article is the suggestion that FR is some sort of slick outfit with marketing goals that drive the “administrators’” decisions about what content to allow. I seriously wonder if the writer even knows that there is no cost to join and post on FR, and no advertising accepted that would translate into financial benefits for the “administrators” when participation is higher.
Personally I think JimRob’s anti-Rudy campaign has been a bit overboard, but it’s his site and anybody who disagrees with how he runs it is free to set up their own site and run it differently. Fact is, the whiners don’t have the energy or commitment level to create and maintain a high-volume, technically sophisticated, intensively moderated, and very influential forum like FR. They think Jim should keep doing the huge amount of work involved to keep this forum up and running, but take orders from them to make the forum suit their tastes. That’s not how things work in the real world, nor is it how they should work.
-—I miss some of the exiles...-—
Like a migraine.