Don't ask.....
Posted on 06/15/2006 10:07:52 AM PDT by xpertskir
I have recently joined "The Daily Kos". I have done so to pursue honest, reasonable, and rational debate. I have started posting on the site and became aware of an interesting and disgusting policy on. The troll policy is described as follows in the FAQ:
"Dealing with trolls Trolling is a sad reality of internet life. Most trolls tend to be blatant, posting comments or diaries that are clearly intended to provoke an angry response. Other trollish messages are posted simply to disrupt the conversation in a diary. Directly replying to the content of a trollish message is usually a waste of time; trolls tend not to be interested in actual debate. There are two methods in wide use to help keep the community as troll-free as possible. The first is troll-rating comments. Trusted Users (see above) can give comments a rating of troll. If a comment has been rated by two or more users, and there are more troll ratings than recommends, then that comment (and all replies to it) are automatically hidden. Hidden comments and their responses can only be seen by Trusted Users. Unfortunately, there is no similar mechanism for hiding trollish diaries. Instead of writing detailed rebuttals of whatever claims or argument the troll is making, the standard response to a troll diary is to post comments containing recipes for tasty dishes. Plenty of examples can be found in the Troll Diary tag. An entire cookbook of recipes has been collected and is being sold as a fundraiser."
I have been given this "troll rating" even though I have not used swear words or attacked other users peronally. I suppose it should not surprise me that these moonbats would want to censor and control the "content" that they read. I forgot that they only like the 1st ammendment when it protects their speech. I have emailed "Kos" and asked him about the policy. I find this policy absolutely ridiculous and am happy that Free Republic does not have a policy such as this, NO MATTER how unpopular the post may be.
FYI my name on The Kos is "clintonliedandpeopledied"
WOW I have just realized that Free Republic does have a similar policy. In trying to post they would not let me use www.dailykos.com which is why I used aol.com.
I don't like cats, particularly since a cat came in my backyard and beat my 25 lb. dog up. I had to take him the vet to have his poor little nose patched up.
It wouldnt matter what my name was.
"...they just attack me or Dub Yah for that matter."
The man's name/title is "President Bush." Give him the respect he deserves. Thank you.
Who is this "they" that's always saying stuff, anyway?
I hope the little guy's OK.
Now he knows what kitties do.
Don't ask.....
Are you going for the understatement of the year award? To go on Kos with the name "clintonliedandpeopledied" would be like going on FR with the name "banallgunsandoutlawChristianity".
Yeah but yours is an opinion.
Clinton Lied and People Died is a fact.
"Heck, we do that here."
Thats unfortunate. It is one thing to remove a rude and offensive person who is attacking users. It is a completely different matter to censor unpopular ideas. In my view the whole point of sites such as these is to "filter" through these different ideas to find one that is most appealing to you or makes the most sense and just to have fun.
You're right though.
If you scratch that thing you're gonna have a bump, and it'll bleed and become infected, and next thing you know, off comes the arm.
And all because you couldn't stop from scratching it. Well, I hope you're happy now, Ms. had-to-scratch-it-because-it-itched-really-really-bad. You'll never make the major leagues now! All that practice. Down the drain! All those nights of going to bed hunger. All the camps, the overnights to the games! Gone. GONE! For a lousy mosquito bite!
Baking soda may help, as will any cortisone (ie cortaid, cortisone 10) cream or spray.
Censor? Censorship is government power. This is a private website and the owner can invite and disinvite whoever he wishes.
Do you think someone should be able to show up at a party you are holding uninvited, say stuff you don't want to hear but you shouldn't be allowed to toss them out?
Don't Freepmail me again.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME. I voted/helped elect him. I support him on almost all of his stances(screwing the pooch on immigration), and I respect him immensely. I can call him what I wish."
You have missed the whole point.
Perhaps I was wrong and FR is no different. I for one thought that we had differing opinions and hashed it out in a logical and reasonable manner. Am I the only one?
LOL - you sound just like our medic. He said the same thing pretty much when I went to get some cream for it. He looked at the bite mark and said "Aw, man...that arm's going to have to come off."
You'd make a good medic.
you guessd it...
scratched it.
No, I have not. Freedom of Association is just as vital a right as Freedom of Speech - and was upheld by SCOTUS when governments tried to force the Boy Scouts to admit gays.
Perhaps I was wrong and FR is no different.
We cheerfully excercise our right to associate with whom we wish.
I for one thought that we had differing opinions and hashed it out in a logical and reasonable manner.
We have a lot of differing opinions here. We even have a couple of liberal posters we keep around for target practice. But for the most part, you cannot debate liberals in a logical or reasonable manner, so it is pointless to have them here posting. Am I the only one?
Thanks. My current penpal in Iraq is a medic. It's rubbing off!
Now stop scratching!
Chill out.
When I talked about the 1st amendment it was an illustration of the liberal ideology, not an attack of the constitutionality of a stupid website.
And you had concepts such as censorship completely wrong in the process.
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