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Poll: Proposed FR Rule Change about breaking news
Posted on 02/12/2004 8:58:45 AM PST by 1stFreedom
My post on the Kerry story was pulled. Why? Because before the story actually broke, someone posted a thread that indicated Drudge had a breaking a world exclusive story. (We all love the early warnings about a breaking drudge story, even if the story turns out to be about nothing.)
On this post, there were tons of posts speculating the cause, etc. The last time I looked there were 500+ posts.
I posted the story after Drudge broke it, and immediately the responses were relevant and not speculative.
My question to you is, shouldn't the older post be frozen, especially since there were 500 odd posts which were not dealing with actual story? Or would you rather freeze and remove the new post with relevant information and posts?
I don't care about MY posts being bumped. I've posted breaking stories from Drudge, and I'd expect than once the story actually comes through, my "early warning" post should be locked.
An alternative suggestion is for the moderator to EDIT the original post warning of the breaking news and to insert the actual story into the original post.
What do you think? (DU members, no need to try and influence this poll! LOL)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
MODS GONE WILD!
To: Coop
How about the idiot kickers?
To: 1stFreedom
It seems that Robinson needs to speak with todays mod.
I will inform him of such. I also had this thread pulled of front page news.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076732/posts Dean calling Kerry Corrupt and proving it.
My suggestion is we go the head of the Freerepublic
command, and let him hear about it and reply.
ops4 God BLess America!
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posted on
02/12/2004 9:28:36 AM PST
by
OPS4
To: OPS4
That thread was, and still is, listed in Front Page. And it wasn't put back. It never was taken out.
To: Lead Moderator
How about the idiot kickers? Now you're just talking nonsense!
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posted on
02/12/2004 9:33:33 AM PST
by
Coop
("Hero" is the last four-letter word I'd use to describe John Kerry.)
To: 1stFreedom
Don't really care...
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posted on
02/12/2004 9:34:24 AM PST
by
blackbart1
(I miss Tony...)
To: 1stFreedom
In the true spirit of a conservative news forum, I think we should stick to fixing people's computer problems, captioning photos, and discussing the relative merits of posting breaking news stories.
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posted on
02/12/2004 9:36:19 AM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: Coop
To: 1stFreedom
What do you think? Who cares. Pull this one
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posted on
02/12/2004 9:39:29 AM PST
by
paul51
To: 1stFreedom
I agree with your assessment. I was just about to leave for work when I noticed the original thread. I also noticed 400+ messages, the first 50 of which were nonsense. I was actually wishing someone would do what you had done; i.e., post the actual story. Instead, I took the time to go to Drudge.
To: Lead Moderator
I went there twice and could not find it, apparently, either there was a glitch, or I missed it.
Ops4 God BLess America!
Hint: If a story is breaking as the Drudge and NewsMax stories were, you will have some who do not want the news
seen that is Pro-Bush. We are a conservative site, and expect lead stories favorable to our cause to be seen, as they are breaking.Duplicates are not necessary but the two stories in question were original posts.
Ops4 God Bless America!
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posted on
02/12/2004 9:47:58 AM PST
by
OPS4
To: OPS4
A story will only ever show up in one of your configured sidebars. So if you post something to extended and frontpage, as you did, on some of your page loads it could show up in frontpage and in others it could show in extended. Which is another reason to not post things in several of the default sidebars.
To: Lead Moderator
Thanks for the info. I did not know this.
Ops4 God Bless America!
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posted on
02/12/2004 9:55:26 AM PST
by
OPS4
To: Neets
There are wise posters, and idiot posters...you are the latter. Let it go.Hiya, Neets. Where ya been? I've really, really, really missed your Kool-Aid smile.
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posted on
02/12/2004 10:05:11 AM PST
by
Glenn
(What were you thinking, Al?)
To: Glenn
Hi Darlin...a health issue had me quasi sedated for a little while.
I have missed you too Glenn!!
Let me know when you want to borrow my pom-poms or cheerleading skirt, OK????
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posted on
02/12/2004 10:25:14 AM PST
by
Neets
(Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.~)
To: Neets
Let me know when you want to borrow my pom-poms or cheerleading skirt, OK????And deny you your only source of taxable income?
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posted on
02/12/2004 10:27:49 AM PST
by
Glenn
(What were you thinking, Al?)
To: Glenn
And here, all this time, I thought you loved me.
Happy Valentine's day to you too Sweetiekins.
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posted on
02/12/2004 10:29:18 AM PST
by
Neets
(Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.~)
To: 1stFreedom
Replace the old thread with the new in breaking news and add links to point to the other from each thread.
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posted on
02/12/2004 10:45:35 AM PST
by
DrewsDad
To: 1stFreedom
Here's what I think should happen. Just my opinion...
I think that the ability to post something directly in Breaking News sidebar should be taken away. We should then post our articles, just as always. Then the moderators can "upgrade" articles to the Breaking News sidebar as they see fit.
This should end all the squabbling and all the "hurt" feelings about having one's post downgraded in status.
Also, during a genuine breaking story, the moderator should not have to choose the very first thread posted on that sujbect. The moderator may choose the thread with the most details to be the thread to represent the breaking news story on the sidebar.
Thus, a breaking news thread that is linked to a genuine article might be chosen over a "DRUDGE FLASH - NOTHING FOLLOWS" type thread that was posted 10 minutes prior.
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posted on
02/12/2004 10:55:45 AM PST
by
SamAdams76
(I got my 401(k) statement - Up 28.02% in 2003 - Thanks to tax cuts and the Bush recovery)
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