Posted on 08/05/2007 4:54:00 AM PDT by Tree of Liberty
Yep. I’m waitin’ on April ‘08.
Yes, that was my point ;-).
And I was referring specifically to the Manson Girls.
Hey,you know what,you and the mods here are PLENTY fair and balanced. Most of the dopes who criticize you guys couldn’t run a toll booth on a highway. Running an open site like FR and keeping it fun,interesting,yes controversial and relevant without having it spiral out of control is a real juggling act and you do it well.Trust me I’ve been bounced from enough sites I could have used the name rubberball instead of Obie Wan but you guys have let me have my say where others wouldn’t !!!
I am curious, can you link me the thread you posted?
Swarm this Kos.......ya sore-losers !
Excuse me, Mr. Philetus, but who appointed YOU forum moderator? For your information, we post all kinds of topics here”
I posted to you in response to your whiny, complaining post #152, which is below.
Is there anything you don’t whine about?
This forum ain’t what it used to be.
My first glimmer of this was when I posted a thread a week or so ago, and it immediately became filled with graphics, songs, and stupid comments. It was a thread on dinosaurs & archeology. Someone posted a huge picture of Barney the Dinosaur (giant purple graphic). Someone else posted lyrics to a song, Alley Oop. Too bad the poster of a thread couldn’t moderate their own thread, deleting unwanted posts. Only downside is, you might end up only talking to yourself. Which might not be so bad. Needless to say, all the garbage they posted were thread killers, and I immediately abandoned the thread after the song lyrics were posted. Why waste my time wading through all that stuff. Too bad we couldn’t get the moderators on our side, to delete all the unwanted garbage.
152 posted on 08/05/2007 12:16:47 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (The Morlocks are above-ground now, and nobody seems to care.)
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Bump!
The day FR becomes an arm of ANY political party is the day I’ll opus. FR is independent because of you and the site you set up. KOS is a wholly owned subsidiary of the dims.
God bless FR!
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September will align them with a laser.
Naturally, you revise history. The coven was very good at ganging up on their opponents, starting flame wars and then getting the target banned.
So few feel any sympathy for them getting a taste of their own medicine.
Ok where is our FR conference with the leadership?
Where is the FReep of Kos?
This article is to marginalize the #1 conservative forum in the nation (per a recent article #8 conservative site overall)
However CNN does not cover FR beause it bootstraps these articles with a MEME. “FR is marginal”
rinse and repeat.
We need to FReep the CNN and PMSNBC to force them to acknowlege us.
(BTW remember when Rush made fun of the typical FR poster? Not so much now.)
Web 2.0 is fairness doctrine to censor the internet.
Must be nice to have the MSM giving 100’s of hours of free publicity.
If the MSM was interested in “fairness doctrine” they would give equal time to FR.
Keep in mind the some of those Rudy-bots were either paid posters or part of the viral agencies campaign effort.
The kos is a PAID for support site. That capitalist limo liberal there CHARGES candidates cash for support via a “consulting fee”. (see Lieberman is still senator)
FR does have a good record of cleaning out viral advertising efforts.
i second that observation
To be blunt about it: Duh.
I know you’ve posted that a million times, and at least once or twice to me.
I am addressing the issue of HOW to best effect FR’s goals. Turning that point into some strawman that you are being urged to be “fair and balanced” is not helpful.
Be biased toward your ideology all you want. But what are you going to do to advance your cause? Defeat people in the arena of ideas or simply shut people up? Or does your bias not extend to believing sufficiently in the strength of your ideas to overcome and win out? That is not equivalent to allowing FR to become a “liberal debating society.”
Further, I am not talking about the treatment of “trolls and assorted malcontents” and I believe you know that.
This is liberal orthodoxy if I've ever heard it. Nothing but some version of "the devil made me do it," "the man made me do it," "root causes made me do it," "it's all society's fault," blah blah blah blah. If the "target" engaged in conduct that was offensive enough that the mods---not the "coven," mind you---banned him, what caused the ban? Uh, the "target's" own conduct. Even if someone does---oh, boo hoo---start a flame war against you, is your response outside your control and, therefore, is whether or not you commit conduct that could get you banned outside your control? Conservatism is about taking personal responsibility. The "coven" did not commit the conduct that got the "target" banned, nor did the "coven" have the authority to ban anyone. That would be the mods. But, unless the JR and the mods are total nincompoops (is that what you are saying?), a person gets banned for his *personal* conduct on the forum. Right?
“Web 2.0” is just a euphemism for greater interactivity among internet users, whether it’s photo sharing with Flickr, social networking with Myspace, or easily posting a screed on a blog.
How does the fairness doctrine play into it?
No, it's the core conservative concept of seeing someone hoisted on their own petard. Nothing more, nothing less.
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