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How would most posts sound if most of what you were to get were agreements amongst the members?

Try 'getting something done'. Trolls come here to disrupt. Conservatives come here to get something done. Conservatives live busy lives and babysitting trolls is not on our agenda - less talk and more action is.

the outside world coming to your site for quotes or for finding out how the "conservatives" feel about a particular issue.

BUT when they come here THINKING the poster is a conservative and gets liberal views and/or spinning the facts - that is damaging and the trolls know that - so mission accomplished. Remember there are many lurkers who don't sign up for that very reason. I've send a few friends here and they don't have time for all the 'crap'. They aren't looking for 'entertainment'. They're serious and consider their time valuable.

Why would it be of higher quality just because you have strictly "conservative" members and conservative viewpoints on the site?

At first, I couldn't believe you said that. On second thought, yes I can.

It would get very boring very fast, and boring is not quality.

If one comes here to be entertained - then this site fits them. If one is coming for political activism - they encounter 'debate' w/trolls boring and a waste of time for they know 'their game'. You are making an error in your assumption that having a truly conservative site there would be less members.

If one comes here to be entertained - then this site fits them. If one is coming for political activism - they encounter 'debate' w/trolls boring and a waste of time for they know 'their game'. You are making an error in your assumption that having a truly conservative site there would be less members.

"Discussions" where everybody is like-minded and everybody makes the same posts, and every says "I concur with you, dude", is not a discussion site at all, and where there is no discussion and no disagreements, then it's also not entertaining.

Now, if you think that a forum where everybody thinks alike and posts alike and are in complete agreement is the way to go, then you, no doubt, are very "happy" in that "Stepford" town that you live in.

And, how can you even make the statement that with a strictly conservative forum, that there wouldn't be fewer members?

The kind of place that you prefer is the one that, like the Taliban, no one can disagree with them. Yeah, your views might be the exact opposite of the ones from the Taliban, but, your world would, just like in the world of the Taliban, not be tolerant of differing viewpoints. Heck, we have intolerant people like that in our own country: they're called "liberals/progressives".

Try ‘getting something done’. Trolls come here to disrupt. Conservatives come here to get something done. Conservatives live busy lives and babysitting trolls is not on our agenda - less talk and more action is.
***I’ve tried time and again to have CoLB trolls removed and JimRob’s response was to tell me to stop hunting trolls. That suggest he has an interest in keeping the level of entertainment up as compared to the level of discourse.

BUT when they come here THINKING the poster is a conservative and gets liberal views and/or spinning the facts - that is damaging and the trolls know that - so mission accomplished.
***That’s why an idealogical litmus matrix is a good idea. We no longer have to assume that the poster is a conservative, we can look it up on their profile. Again I find it necessary to say that we wouldn’t be banning anyone on the basis of their profile because they’re out in the open with their views.

Remember there are many lurkers who don’t sign up for that very reason. I’ve send a few friends here and they don’t have time for all the ‘crap’. They aren’t looking for ‘entertainment’. They’re serious and consider their time valuable.
***Apparently JimRob considers the entertainment element more valuable than these conservatives’ and lurkers’ time.

If one comes here to be entertained - then this site fits them.
***It pains me to say that I agree with you on this item.

If one is coming for political activism - they encounter ‘debate’ w/trolls boring and a waste of time for they know ‘their game’.
***So... JimRob could keep the discourse level high and still keep the entertaining trolls around by implementing an idealogical litmus matrix. He has no interest in doing that, so FR will continue its sad slide.

You are making an error in your assumption that having a truly conservative site there would be less members.
***Very good point.