Posted on 09/06/2007 8:49:54 PM PDT by fred4prez
I spend a few minutes each day staying in touch with pop culture and news; Digg, Youtube, and Freerepublic are my mainstays. I have discovered, as I'm sure most readers have, that the comments and discussion of an article or post is as, if not more, interesting, funny, and informative as the original article.
The problem is wading thru all the mediocre comments (often 100's) for the real gems among the bunch.
I would like to suggest a rating system similar to other sites that allow other readers to rate comments which will allow other users to sort the comments by number of "kudos" if he/she wishes.
A side benefit of this system is that it would cause comments that are in line with FR's principles to rise to the top, while users who post distracting comments will be virtually "punished" by getting negative comments buried.
FR is an awesome site that I dearly love, but it needs a bit of updating; what does everyone else think?
Hey Newbie, Free Republic is perfect as is.
It’s not the site’s fault you don’t have time to wade through “mediocre” responses.
Here it comes. You’re gonna get it now.
Nah!
LOL!
IBTZ?
I don’t know about rating responses. I didn’t know this was a popularity forum.
I rate your post -5, poor.
Your spelling, grammar, and punctuation are all atrocious. I feel diminished after reading your mediocre vanity.
LOL!
“Bump” is our rating system............Your idea is interesting, but I believe different people have different views of postings, relating to where they are in life/politics, etc. How would you rate them? For relevance? Humor? Insight? Intelligence?
The system is fine.
Yeah, just what the web needs, another Digg clone.
Hey Newbie-slammer...it’s not a bad idea at all.
Oh, BTW, there’s this thing called Web 2.0 you might be interested in reading about...but hurry, 3.0 is just around the corner.
I'll be happy to ping you to my comments to save you some time.
Take a hike.
I've noticed that problem too, with Digg and Youtube.
We already know we're the best.
We don't need any more peer review than we already have.
The current system is fine.
Individual comments stand on their own merits or lack thereof.
I thought that was a good idea 10 years ago, but now I see that all the sites that use such systems still have many more idiots posting than here.
The best way to deal with idiots, trolls and spammers is to nuke their accounts, which is how FR deals with it.
The FR system has proven to be the best, IMO.
Yes, but in new media sites, like Digg and Youtube, you can choose to read only those comments which others found most helpful and informative.
Hereafter: If you are not hereafter what we are here after, then we’ll still be hereafter you are gone.
I had a black cat for 16 years- He was a great friend. What’s the name of him or her?
Let your mom preview the threads and tell you which comments you should read.
OMG those kitties are JUST TOO CUTE!
It’s generally considered bad form to show up in someones house and start telling them what’s wrong. Why take any advise from anyone with such poor manners?
That’s Claymore. He’s about 4 months old. Check my FReep page for more!
And thanks!
To: fred4prez
From: JennysCool
Hey Newbie, Free Republic is perfect as is.
09/06/2007 8:51:40 PM PDT by JennysCool ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -Mencken)
Betcha can’t wait to upgrade your Commodore!
Good luck with that.
We already have a simple, infallible system. Mine rate 10 out of 10.
What took you so long to get around to redesigning FR? You’ve been here over a month.
You know what I do when I don't find a comment 'helpful and informative'? I scroll to the next one. It's that easy.
Wow! What a face! What’s the name?
Yes, but that would have been a mediocre response! :-)
Why on earth should we let any drooling idiot with a keyboard and posting privileges pass judgment on our gems of composition? Art isn't a democracy. You shouldn't need some panel of mouth-breathing illiterates to tell you what has literary merit and what does not. You know a masterpiece of elegaic brilliance when you see it. The way to tell is to look at the bottom. If it says "Billthedrill"
...it isn't. Thanks for playing.
Per the new rating system, you have been voted off the island.
Buh-bye.
Hmmm....I donate to FR and make frequent comments here....I don’t see any problem with airing an idea for others to discuss/deride/applaud etc. That’s the fun of this site!
They sent a big dude around to stomp on my keyboard. I guess that was a low rating.
I think you hate me and want to destroy my only real life, here, in cyperspace, annonymous but for a nick name no one understands but me, one of a multitude who believe in preaching to a choir (and even listining to the feed back once in awhile).
What have I ever done to you?
You swine. You vulgar little maggot. Don’t you know that you are pathetic? You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, I’ll bet you couldn’t pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won’t go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you.
You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you. You are a bloody nardless newbie twit protohominid chromosomally aberrant caricature of a coprophagic cloacal parasitic pond scum and I wish you would go away.
You’re a putrescence mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.
You are a bleating fool, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done.
I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?
If you aren’t an idiot, you made a world-class effort at simulating one. Try to edit your writing of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.
You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.
You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You’re a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won’t have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot.
And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?
You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meatslapper.
On a good day you’re a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go.
I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I’m sorry. I can’t go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don’t have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh.
The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of what you wrote, because, well... it didn’t really say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative flame was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us “normal” people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are “challenged” persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn’t have been “right”. Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.
P.S.: You are hypocritical, greedy, violent, malevolent, vengeful, cowardly, deadly, mendacious, meretricious, loathsome, despicable, belligerent, opportunistic, barratrous, contemptible, criminal, fascistic, bigoted, racist, sexist, avaricious, tasteless, idiotic, brain-damaged, imbecilic, insane, arrogant, deceitful, demented, lame, self-righteous, Byzantine, conspiratorial, satanic, fraudulent, libelous, bilious, splenetic, spastic, ignorant, clueless, illegitimate, harmful, destructive, dumb, evasive, double-talking, devious, revisionist, narrow, manipulative, paternalistic, fundamentalist, dogmatic, idolatrous, unethical, cultic, diseased, suppressive, controlling, restrictive, malignant, deceptive, dim, crazy, weird, dystopic, stifling, uncaring, plantigrade, grim, unsympathetic, jargon-spouting, censorious, secretive, aggressive, mind-numbing, abrasive, poisonous, flagrant, self-destructive, abusive, socially-retarded, puerile, clueless, and generally Not Good.
I think you should go hang out a digg and leave us alone.
Under your rating system, there would be no beeber, no moose, and no cheese, and that is a world in which I wouldn’t care to live.
har-d-har...yer hilarious, no really, mean it
We should at least make this option available to Freepers younger than 12!
You’ve been here 2 months and want to change things?
Go back to DU...
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