Why No Righty Kos? (More Navel Gazing and Free Republic Bashing)

TownHall.com ^ | Saturday, September 8, 2007 | Patrick Ruffini

[Greg F]

I think it’s probably worth paying that price if we can get people acting like true activists. Conservatives have paid a price for being inattentive to candidate recruitment and what’s actually going on at the county committee level. In effect, we allowed the unchecked rise of machine operators like Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, and John Doolittle who sacrificed conservative principle for back-scratching enrichment.

He's right about this. Run for an office and encourage good local conservatives to do the same. Every real candidate drains the "opposition," whether liberal Republicans or Dems, of resources to fight for that seat, whether you win or lose.

[Larry Lucido]

As a caveman I’m offended (but I agree).

[Psycho_Bunny]

I do miss the linking that was removed several years ago - where you could click on the "TO: FRUser" and you would jump to the comment the current comment was directed at.  It made it much easier to follow an idea through large thread.

[piytar]

Then there’s LGF (www.littlegreenfootballs.com) where 1,000 plus comment threads are relatively common.

(And no, it’s not a hate site, it’s an anti-terrorism pro-America pro-Israel site.)

[Seabee133]

Kos vs. Freepers is nothing more than an internet version of CNN vs. Fox News. Liberals like hype, pomp and circumstance, and smoke an mirrors. They are not worried about content. I like the fact Freepers is simple, the points get across and you can argue your point either way. Of course the typical liberal response would be, “It’s so simple cause conservatives are to stupid to know how to operate something difficult.” My response to them would be,”Liberals are to worried about looking good than actually doing good, so who is the real moron here.” Either way, there are some fantastic concservative blogs LGF, Free Conservatives, Free Republic etc. the only liberal blog that gets any kind of attention is Kos. Hmmm, kinda makes you think.

[Nephi]

I agree with your interpretation of “primitive” in the article. I also agree with your assessment of freerepublic’s architecture.

A noob recently started a thread suggesting that freepers be able to rate the posts of other freepers. Poor guy. He took it like a man.

I agree with his suggestion, though.

As Kristinn explained on the O’Reilly Factor, freerepublic doesn’t have the budget to moderate freepers like they may want to. A rating system might work to freerepublic’s advantage. Most freepers are governed by a sense of honor that would self replicate in a voluntary ranking system. On the DailyKos, it might have the opposite effect, the more outrageous and vitriolic, the higher your ranking.

Ranking criteria might consist of voting whether a freepers post is thoughtful, sarcastic, sophomoric, humorous, etc and then freepers could eliminate posts irrelevant to their criteria. That way, freepers could eliminate posts like this by setting their preference to eliminate ‘thoughtful’ posts. (c;

As freepers become more and more vitriolic toward certain candidates and their supporters, the negativity discourages discussion and that can’t help freerepublic as a forum to espouse Jim Robinson’s brand of conservatism.

[CHEE]

This is good news. If he is BITCHING then we are HITCHING!

[philman_36]

...you could click on the "TO: FRUser" and you would jump to the comment the current comment was directed at.
In your reply click on the "To 9" and you'll get the same thing.

[philman_36]

Picking “To 23” on this reply, just like my last, will get you to your reply.

[Stegall Tx]

My answer, as articulated here is that there is a conservative Daily Kos, that’s it’s Free Republic, but that it doesn’t really “count” since it’s not a blog, and more critically, it won’t play nicely with the rest of the movement and it doesn’t worship candidates like Kos does.

In my opinion, this is what really bugs them about FR. This is not a Republican site. It is a conservative site and we (well, most of us) don't tolerate non-conservatives even when they dress themselves as Republicans and try to say the right things at the right time just to get our votes.

[showme_the_Glory]

RIGHT-— Libertypost.org 157,700 Lucianne.com 299,600 Libertyforum.org 132,800 Clownposse.org 010,300 Littlegreenfootballs.com 603,400 Freerepublic.com 1,308,300 LEFT-— Democraticunderground.com 792,600 Dailykos.com 2,048,900 WideAwakes 16

[sageb1]

Ruffini is right about something. I’ve mentioned it before here. Daily Kuss takes its activism to the local level. FR doesn’t do that. I’m not talking about GOE. I’m referring to state activism - the 50 state plan of Howard Dean. This is not a criticism of FR. I have yet to see any conservative blog/forum that does what they do on the local level. However, when it comes to global issues, they have much less knowledge and understanding than FReepers.

[sageb1]

Exactly.

[avacado]

Yep! That snippet that you quoted is actually quite a compliment. It basically says that the Kos people are sheep and march lock-step in their group think, without question. We (FReeRepublic) on the other hand think for ourselves and if we don’t like something, contrary to majority opinion, we make our position known within the FReeRepublic community.

[sageb1]

“I agree with his suggestion, though.”

I don’t. The system we have is fine. If someone says something worthwhile, we can bump it or reply. Conversely, if a post is not notable, it is ignored. In my visits to dKos, I’ve seen threads devolve into nothing more than “why did you troll-rate me” whining. We don’t need that.

[Jagman]

Why no Righty Kos?

I can think of a couple of reasons:

Not many mentally ill people ascribe to conservative ideals.

Republican just don't know that many swear words!

[B Knotts]

We did some more local activism around 2000, but it kind of evaporated. I’m not sure how to get that going again.

[Smartaleck]

Sorry, but I’m missing the bashing part?

[jamndad5]

(DU was, and is, a joke). That community may not be the healthiest one around, but it’s still a community.

snicker!

[sageb1]

I’m not sure either. The set up for the state forums isn’t really conducive to a lot of ongoing discussion. Do you use your state board?