Posted on 09/17/2008 10:28:43 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
This is what the Nut Roots are doing to WGN-AM in Chicago:
Obama vs. WGN-AMIf you guys in the Robinson family don't get your act together, and get it together soon, then the Nut Roots are going to take down this site, and take it down hard, for the next two months.
The station is coming under attack for offering airtime to controversial author.
by John McCormick and Steven Schmadeke | Tribune staff reporters
September 16, 2008
chicagotribune.comChicago radio station WGN-AM is again coming under attack from the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama for offering airtime to a controversial author. It is the second time in recent weeks the station has been the target of an "Obama Action Wire" alert to supporters of the Illinois Democrat.
Monday night's target was David Freddoso, who the campaign said was scheduled to be on the station from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Chicago time.
Obama mobilizes rapid response on Web
Campaign targets media when attacks aired By John McCormick | Chicago Tribune reporter
12:32 AM CDT, September 17, 2008
chicagotribune.comMuch of Barack Obama's political success can be traced to a database listing contact information for millions of people, a tool that has proved invaluable in raising record sums of money and organizing a national volunteer network.
Now Obama's presidential campaign is increasingly using the list to beat back media messages it does not like, calling on supporters to flood radio and television stations when those opposed to him run anti-Obama ads or appear on talk shows.
It did so as recently as Monday night, when it orchestrated a massive stream of complaints on the phone lines of Tribune Co.-owned WGN-AM in Chicago when the radio station hosted author David Freddoso, who has written a controversial book about the Illinois Democrat.
You need to do several things to the Free Republic infrastructure and have them in place no later than about October 1; among them:
1) Mirror Free Republic to at least two other physical locations around the country - one on the east coast [Washington/NYC/Atlanta], and the other maybe more central [Texas has some large colo's with backbone connectivity].
Right now, I am seeing only two IP resolutions for "www.freerepublic.com" - 209.147.64.200 & 209.147.64.201 - and traceroutes have them [predictably] on the same physical network [I imagine that they are sitting right next to one another in the same server rack]:
2) Turn off as much of the relational structure at Free Republic as is possible, and return to a strictly flat file structure for as much of the content at Free Republic as is possible.[n - 2] mg-1.a01.mlpsca01.us.da.verio.net [n - 1] 128.242.105.82 [n] 209.147.64.200 The current relational structure is hopelessly broken, and the negotiations between the caching frontend and the relational backend are breaking down multiple times a day.
Again: THE RELATION STRUCTURE MUST BE DISCARDED - THIS IS IMPERATIVE.
[Furthermore, it is vastly easier to propagate a flat file structure to multiple physical sites around the country; trying to propagate a relational structure, in real time, with relatively limited funds for bandwidth, is essentially impossible.]
3) As things really heat up in October & November, I'd consider banning [temporarily] all non-political content, and instituting an aggressive policy of putting on probation the accounts of users who post lengthy, inane, unfocused, meandering, off-topic soliloquies - concentrating instead on promoting the work of people [like Kristinn] who are doing original investigative reporting and who are presenting their results in simple, straightforward, declarative arguments.
Along those lines, I'd move aggressively to upgrade the quality of the moderators who are policing the content at Free Republic - the quality of the moderation is utterly unpredictable from hour to hour - one hour there will seem to be a moderator who "gets it", and the next hour, it's as if that moderator's shift suddenly ended, and we have an utterly clueless moderator in charge of things.
I don't care if you're worried about hurting Granny's feelings if you tell her that she can't moderate for the next two months - we have to get some moderators in here who are up-to-date on current events and who understand the difference between original investigative reporting [regarding e.g. DEM/Obama treason & Bolshevik/Gramscian subterfuge] and the kinds of "Pray for my Kitty who is having feline leukemia chemotherapy tomorrow morning" threads which seem to waste so much CPU time & bandwidth at this site.
As a side note, I can’t believe Yahoo hasn’t improved that forum software. I have a buddy whose 16-y.o. son could probably whip up better forum software inside of a month. You should see the 3-D game space “world” editor he wrote from scratch.
Yeah, for an almost real time message board the mirrors would need to be connnected with dedicated fiber which would place them on the same internet backbone and therefore still vulnerable to attack. Although it would be a vast improvement. Costly too though.
13 year old is a girl...you have met her. Thank you for the prayers and the hugs.
Certainly.
Sigh.
booked marked it and sent it to my email. Worked fine. Thanks
I have been told my computer is old so I thought the slowing down was because of that. It’s about 7-8 years old. Can’t afford a new one.
I guess somebody had better tell the Hillary people for McCain people because they are loud and know their stuff on Obama.
DOD is relocating all installations from indefensible positions to defensible positions.
[I can’t think of a downside to that. ]
Perhaps so. I have just seen so many brand new people putting up threads immediately and there were many posters who thought the threads questionable.
You know as well as I do that there are new ones joining just to cause friction, and as another well known freeper put it, “they can be very smart about it”.
I don’t really believe brand new freepers are going to immediately start donating to FR either.
I have a Dell computer and fast cable connection and yet have had all kinds of trouble getting around here in the past month. Each freeper has 4 or 5 pages of ‘their own’, so the large influx of new people is going to put additional burden on the forum when it is already working slow and at the most important of times.
Just some of my thoughts Mary, but I don’t push it because I am a graphics poster and even though my graphics bandwidth comes from another paid site they take up space here.
As has been said a million times, one picture can say a thousand words.
I honestly would like to know what the ‘upside’ to it is, we already have all the ‘thoughts’ available here from thousands of intelligent people and new freepers could join after the election?
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Indefensible from a terrorist standpoint,
An invasion standpoint,
An air attack standpoint,
A nuke cruise missile standpoint. . . .
What?
What are the advantages of the resulting siting and configurations, if one can wisely say?
Appreciate your kind responses.
I’m curious from the standpoint of END TIMES scenarios and globalist maneuvers, strategies, goals.
This effort includes "hardening" of supporting infrastructure in the surrounding area.
No "End Times" stuff about it. Father Abraham would have known how to use this technique.
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I understand, I think, the perspective . . .
However, IF
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I read JimRob right at all on the matter, he’d be very unlikely to do things that way.
I think he’s more inclined to put up with hazardous nooobeees as an unavoidable cost to allowing authentic Conservatives to the FR table.
We sort of need all the help from authentic conservatives we can get in this very critical election.
And, a lot of the mods are pretty sharp.
just my 2 cents.
[I think he’s more inclined to put up with hazardous nooobeees as an unavoidable cost to allowing authentic Conservatives to the FR table.]
I think you’re probably right Quix. I will say that I have seen a lot more cuss words with the newer freepers recently!
I have a link to an old thread where a Moderator named Olive posted a thread saying cussers would be warned or banned. It hasn’t been happening!!
Suck-up :-)
Only kidding....Please God, let the mods have a sense of humor.
Don’t know what to say about that.
I’m not in the loop, really, in terms of the mods. I just make inferences from what I observe.
To some degree, when things are busy, they rely on us old timers to alert them when things get too far over the line.
Honor to whom honor is due.
It seems to me that likely a high percentage of the mods do a yeoman’s job of it for free . . . with lots of flack . . . and lots of competing voices, biases, prejudices, sensibilities, . . . a virtually guaranteed NO WIN situation for them. Yet they keep at it year in and year out.
My hat’s off to them.
There’s evidently one or two or maybe even a handful who either have lots of ‘bad-hair days’ or are generally erratic or disagreeable personalities on the whole. Thankfully, it appears that either Jim or the rest of the mods keep such characters in line MOST OF THE TIME. It’s amazing to me, how well such characters’ personal agendas, petty vendettas etc. are kept in check.
Moderating a large board like this can’t be easy in any stretch of the imagination.
[I’m not in the loop, really, in terms of the mods.]
I’m certainly not either. I just know how bad it is to go to a site like DU, so I hate to see outright swearing used here.
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