FR should require a paid subscription to post any article.
I believe DU runs on fornicated CForum+ Version 1.1 by dcscripts which is no longer in business as of 2009. They also leverage advertising, I saw a Verizon article there the other day while trolling articles about the AZ incident. (Know thy enemy)
My point is that I see the inevitability of both forums needing to be modernized. Not just upgraded, but a complete rewrite or rebranding.
I’m a fan of “if it’s not broke don’t fix it” however that logic doesn’t apply to technology.
FR has proven its value many times from Buckhead’s forged Bush letter discovery to the recent AZ incident and rapid documenting of leftist hate speech.
The question is, we have a good thing going, how can we keep it going and in what form?
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*Three posts, and bang. Gone. I'm not good at pretending to be liberal.
>>FR should require a paid subscription to post any article.<<
Great idea!
While I understand why you're saying it, all the same, actually doing this would kill the site dead. Which, perversely, would solve the current problems, in a way.
Or, to post at all.
Hey, good idea...
I'm a fan of “if it’s not broke don’t fix it”, too. As a 35+ year programmer (half of which was Control Data operating systems), I was part of a team of 4 who created a software package in 1991 that the Govt still uses today. During that time, I've seen a lot of knock-offs fail and the technology advancements have come full circle to the back original architecture.
“FR should require a paid subscription to post any article.” I wonder if requiring a paid subscription to post comments and use messaging would be even more effective.
Actually, if they'd clamp down on the blog pimps, that might help a lot.
I checked out the posting history of some of them and there are precious few who actually participate in the forum. There is one who posted 26 threads in one day. Hardly anybody commented on them. He never replied to a one of them.
I don't have a problem with people who are linking to their own blogs to get the traffic being charged for the service. FR is not a free advertising site.
And I don't see the point in wasting bandwidth to store useless or pimping threads.
At the risk of encouraging the posting police, maybe they could eliminate some of the dupes. Having a thread posted twice because someone didn't see the first one is one thing. But on some of the big breaking news stories, we're seeing 5,6,7 or more threads. That's not necessary. Of course, if people used KEYWORDS, it would help.
That's a suggestion I have. Make the KEYWORD section mandatory when posting threads. That way when people do keyword searches to find threads, they get something. It's not hard to think of keywords for articles.
"We had a good thing going, going gone." Stephen Sondheim
I hope we won't find ourselves singing that song.
>FR should require a paid subscription to post any article.<
I agree. I’m a paying member of Rightnation as well and no one can post articles until they are a paid member and it has worked to keep the site alive since 2003. God forbid we see another vanity article (sarc)
I’ll gladly take it over if you deside to let it die Jim.
This site is too important for our country.
I spend time ere every day - I’d gladly pay a subscription fee
I am a computer engineer with 25 years experience AND A college degree in it, and a ton of colleagues willing to help.
>>FR should require a paid subscription to post any article.<<
I have posted a total of 466 threads. Not a single one of them was posted for my benefit. I post articles to help keep other FReepers informed, not myself.
Excellent idea! A certain amount of dollars per month would allow a certain amount of posting articles, including vanity's. ANY post.
It would certainly keep trolls from posting, well, not without forcing them to contribute to FR. That would just be sweet. =)
And no rolling over!