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Why No Righty Kos? (More Navel Gazing and Free Republic Bashing)
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| Saturday, September 8, 2007
| Patrick Ruffini
Posted on 09/08/2007 5:16:05 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: Cymbaline
...And, I wish we had the ability to edit our posts after we submit them!
61
posted on
09/08/2007 12:00:57 PM PDT
by
Cymbaline
(I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stres)
To: disrgr
To: pnh102; All
Major difference between Kos and FR - on Kos you will find more than 7000 “F-— U” references. On FR YOU WILL NOT FIND EVEN ONE!!
Jealousy is a terrible thing.
63
posted on
09/08/2007 12:24:20 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
(America: THE GREATEST NATION on the face of the earth!)
To: showme_the_Glory
I was unaware DailyKos was almost twice FR size. I just browsed their site (my first visit there). The architecture is a bit busy, and their response time was pitiful. The blogs were more articualate and civil than DU.
The FR architecture beats others hands-down. And most FReepers are tops.
64
posted on
09/08/2007 12:35:56 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
To: kristinn
Free Republic is a "blog" for any freeper who wants to make it one. Personally, I have written a couple of lengthy "articles"/"editorials" (for example
GO NUCLEAR! (Response to NRO Editorial) 136 replies · 2,405+ views) and posted them (they count as "vanities") and received hundreds of replies and thousands of views - - far more than any individual blog would generate. Frankly, I'm not sure why any conservative would need their own individual blog when they can access Free Republic?
To: kristinn
Since I’m a member of Townhall I left this comment there:
I’m a long-time member of FR.. mostly lurking.
To me, FR is more of a news clearing-house. It’s a place to refer to news published elsewhere and to comment about it.
They actively fire-wall blog postings away from their main forum.
I complained about this on this thread there
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880584/posts
I said:
“I think the wall between Blogs and News is arbitrary and counterproductive. Some of the best journalists run their own blogs (Michael Yon... Roggio of 4th Rail.. Michael Totten... Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, etc)
We all complain about the MSM.. about its bias and omissions and then yet we exalt them as something special to keep the bloggers from polluting.
When I try to share important Iraq news that comes from a blog, some busy body will immediately banish it to the Blogs category and then no one sees it.
Tell me.. what is the advantage of this?”
They Said: “The desire is to maintain a good signal to noise ratio. Bloggers can always find FR threads related to their latest rant, and post some of their entry on that thread along with a link. That way, the blog post is put in context of the news story, and blog threads don’t overwhelm the news threads.”
I said: “So in other words something isnt news unless it appears in the New York Times?”
They said:
“Hardly.
However, there are, what, a few million bloggers now? Do you want any blogger who feels like it to start threads on FR? It’s about signal-to-noise. FR is still working out ways to let in the bloggers who add to the news signal while filtering those who just add their opinion (which can be added in the comments section of threads without creating a gazillion new threads).”
This is why, in my opinion, they fail.
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posted on
09/08/2007 1:03:22 PM PDT
by
pacelvi
(In general, Democrats are the only real reason to vote for Republicans. - Thomas Sowell)
To: rabidralph
Welcome, to FR!
Thank you kindly!
Sincerely,
d
67
posted on
09/08/2007 1:07:27 PM PDT
by
disrgr
To: Cymbaline
That said, I still wish FR had a true HTML editor. I hate having to type in all the formatting codes all the time.
If you use Mozilla Firefox, there are two little extensions you can use to help out. One is bbCodeXtra/htmlExtra, and the other is Insert Signature. The first one lets you chooses a variety of html or bbCode tags from a context menu with a click of your mouse. The second lets you input any characters you like so you can choose them from the context menu, with your mouse. For instance, one of mine is the < p > tag; I select it from the menu, click on it, and it prints on the screen. Used together, you don't have to type in tags over and over.
Sincerely,
d
68
posted on
09/08/2007 1:07:28 PM PDT
by
disrgr
To: Poser
Written by a man who seems to be unaware our thread with a pantload more than 700 comments (2132 to be precise). The Saturday Night Massacre thread had a post total in the 5 figure range.
69
posted on
09/08/2007 1:09:27 PM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
(Libs obviously don’t believe pro-lifers are terrorists, or they'd placate us by banning abortion.)
To: CyberAnt
we don't write FU to each other because we have imagination and vocabulary.
we'd write something more like: You pathetic peice of dried up frog spawn.
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posted on
09/08/2007 1:11:23 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Cymbaline
"
...And, I wish we had the ability to edit our posts after we submit them!"
Me, too!!! FRs still one of the easiest sites to get around in, especially if you're as tech-challenged as I am.
To: George W. Bush
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posted on
09/08/2007 1:17:02 PM PDT
by
Styria
To: Styria
AJAX = Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
That means that a web browser can interact with a webserver without having to do a postback or reload a page. This gives the webpage the ability to act more like a native computer program and provides some seam-less behavior that previously required the browser to redraw the whole page.
Google Maps is a good example of this.. as your mouse or map reaches the boundry of what is visible, instead of the page reloading from the server to get the images for the bordering space, the page can communicate with the server and get the info seamlessly.
73
posted on
09/08/2007 2:04:57 PM PDT
by
pacelvi
(In general, Democrats are the only real reason to vote for Republicans. - Thomas Sowell)
To: Mr. Silverback
The Saturday Night Massacre thread had a post total in the 5 figure range.Is that what it has been named? LOL. I felt like a voyeur on that thread. I didn't dare post a word, but I could NOT tear myself away from the blasted thing. At 3:00 AM, I think I stopped, only because my head was pounding, and I had to get up in a few hours.
Of course, I was back reading hours later. Last I saw, it had over 18,000 replies.
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posted on
09/08/2007 2:11:57 PM PDT
by
Shelayne
(I will continue to pray for President Bush and my country, as I am commanded to do by my Lord.)
To: disrgr; Styria
If you use Mozilla Firefox, there are two little extensions you can use to help out. One is bbCodeXtra/htmlExtra, and the other is Insert Signature.
You might be interested in a Firefox extension that I've been coding called FRstyle for a while. Started as a Stylish script, revamped to Greasemonkey, now a full extension. Only released to a small beta test group (including John Robinson who codes FR's Perl now). Some screenshots at Photobucket (each link opens in a new tab or window).
thread view
posting comments view
embedded YouTube video
Sloppy code, I'm still working on it, testing features, removing stuff I don't like. I like the embedding of YouTubes, the easy editing, the styles that are easier on the eye than black text on white. Well, chances are I'll never release it publicly the way things are now here at FR. Not worth the trouble and interest isn't strong anyway. FR is very largely a crowd of older folk who run the browser that came with their machine (IE on Windows, Safari on Mac).
Styria, AJAX is a technique to organize data via standard XML data techniques and using Javascript to manipulate pages and offer features
while a web page is loading. This allows for lots of 'live' features, updating only the parts of a page that have changed, integrating with blogs and services like MySpace, Facebook, etc. One of the more obvious applications would be the kind of things I do with Firefox (pics above) but on all browsers. A highly desirable feature would be live updates where your browser would send off a request every so many seconds requesting a page refresh of threads you currently have open, e.g. you have a thread open and the last post is #70 and after 60 seconds, your browser fires off a request telling the FR server the thread URL and post #70 and then it sends back a response with posts 71-80 which have been posted in the last 60 seconds. It would give FR a live feel and eliminate a lot of extra full-page refreshes, save server bandwitdth. You could also include the posting stuff right on the webpage, not take the user to a separate posting page. Again, less bandwidth, fewer clicks, fewer page loads, more immediate responses.
Ajax (programming) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To: SE Mom
That is so true. This is the first place I go. I literally run to my keyboard and tap, tap, tap away. When my friend called me with news of the 35W bridge collapse, I actually already had the TV on, but was not paying attention. It had just happened, so there was no video yet—just a local reporter on the phone, but I ran to my computer. Sure enough, there was a thread already started.
This place ROCKS, as far as I am concerned.
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posted on
09/08/2007 2:15:43 PM PDT
by
Shelayne
(I will continue to pray for President Bush and my country, as I am commanded to do by my Lord.)
To: kristinn
Conservative blogs don’t just whine about rich white Christian men, so therefore it won’t get as big an audience as DUh or Huffpo or Kos.
To: Thebaddog
78
posted on
09/08/2007 3:29:44 PM PDT
by
expatguy
(Support Conservative Blogging - "An American Expat in Southeast Asia")
To: George W. Bush
Wow, wow, wow! That would be a fantastic addition to the user's toolbox. Don't give up on it--surely there are enough people who would love it. I would, and I'm in my fifties!
Sincerely,
d
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posted on
09/08/2007 4:19:57 PM PDT
by
disrgr
To: tanknetter; rightwingintelligentsia
kos, etc are more like the kids on campus that would stand up on soapboxes reading political statements and manifesto to a small crowd. Isn't that the classic Leftist political architecture? Doubleplusgood duckspeakers declaiming to the mobiliz(ed/ing) masses?
And a tiny, invisible Politburo hashing out content in a locked room?
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