Posted on 09/17/2008 10:28:43 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
This is what the Nut Roots are doing to WGN-AM in Chicago:
Obama vs. WGN-AMIf you guys in the Robinson family don't get your act together, and get it together soon, then the Nut Roots are going to take down this site, and take it down hard, for the next two months.
The station is coming under attack for offering airtime to controversial author.
by John McCormick and Steven Schmadeke | Tribune staff reporters
September 16, 2008
chicagotribune.comChicago radio station WGN-AM is again coming under attack from the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama for offering airtime to a controversial author. It is the second time in recent weeks the station has been the target of an "Obama Action Wire" alert to supporters of the Illinois Democrat.
Monday night's target was David Freddoso, who the campaign said was scheduled to be on the station from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Chicago time.
Obama mobilizes rapid response on Web
Campaign targets media when attacks aired By John McCormick | Chicago Tribune reporter
12:32 AM CDT, September 17, 2008
chicagotribune.comMuch of Barack Obama's political success can be traced to a database listing contact information for millions of people, a tool that has proved invaluable in raising record sums of money and organizing a national volunteer network.
Now Obama's presidential campaign is increasingly using the list to beat back media messages it does not like, calling on supporters to flood radio and television stations when those opposed to him run anti-Obama ads or appear on talk shows.
It did so as recently as Monday night, when it orchestrated a massive stream of complaints on the phone lines of Tribune Co.-owned WGN-AM in Chicago when the radio station hosted author David Freddoso, who has written a controversial book about the Illinois Democrat.
You need to do several things to the Free Republic infrastructure and have them in place no later than about October 1; among them:
1) Mirror Free Republic to at least two other physical locations around the country - one on the east coast [Washington/NYC/Atlanta], and the other maybe more central [Texas has some large colo's with backbone connectivity].
Right now, I am seeing only two IP resolutions for "www.freerepublic.com" - 209.147.64.200 & 209.147.64.201 - and traceroutes have them [predictably] on the same physical network [I imagine that they are sitting right next to one another in the same server rack]:
2) Turn off as much of the relational structure at Free Republic as is possible, and return to a strictly flat file structure for as much of the content at Free Republic as is possible.[n - 2] mg-1.a01.mlpsca01.us.da.verio.net [n - 1] 128.242.105.82 [n] 209.147.64.200 The current relational structure is hopelessly broken, and the negotiations between the caching frontend and the relational backend are breaking down multiple times a day.
Again: THE RELATION STRUCTURE MUST BE DISCARDED - THIS IS IMPERATIVE.
[Furthermore, it is vastly easier to propagate a flat file structure to multiple physical sites around the country; trying to propagate a relational structure, in real time, with relatively limited funds for bandwidth, is essentially impossible.]
3) As things really heat up in October & November, I'd consider banning [temporarily] all non-political content, and instituting an aggressive policy of putting on probation the accounts of users who post lengthy, inane, unfocused, meandering, off-topic soliloquies - concentrating instead on promoting the work of people [like Kristinn] who are doing original investigative reporting and who are presenting their results in simple, straightforward, declarative arguments.
Along those lines, I'd move aggressively to upgrade the quality of the moderators who are policing the content at Free Republic - the quality of the moderation is utterly unpredictable from hour to hour - one hour there will seem to be a moderator who "gets it", and the next hour, it's as if that moderator's shift suddenly ended, and we have an utterly clueless moderator in charge of things.
I don't care if you're worried about hurting Granny's feelings if you tell her that she can't moderate for the next two months - we have to get some moderators in here who are up-to-date on current events and who understand the difference between original investigative reporting [regarding e.g. DEM/Obama treason & Bolshevik/Gramscian subterfuge] and the kinds of "Pray for my Kitty who is having feline leukemia chemotherapy tomorrow morning" threads which seem to waste so much CPU time & bandwidth at this site.
You do know I was kidding, right? It is not an easy job. I don’t want it. I could not do it. They do it well.
It’s certainly not the preference here and the mods will delete such posts when alerted.
JimRob has been clear about it . . . though some ‘minor’ such can occasionally appear over his name at the scoundrals so traitorously damaging out country.
I’ve never pushed abuse on anyone since I’ve been here. Am very hesitant to do so. This is the thread I have saved;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1755064/posts
Just kidding.
Really
:-)
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Alway use the word “alleged”
Several times if possible
“It is rumored by several high level DC Beltway sources that Barack Hussein Dukakis-Obama Junior allegedly confessed in his first autobiography (He wrote two!!!!) that his mental condition forced him to use cocaine.....”
That’s a resume enhancer right there sports fans!
Dittos on the donating
I am Alice and just fell through the rabbit hole, lol. What did I say that involves using ‘alleged’? Guess I need to backtrack my remarks to see what all I wrote.
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I sometimes use “alleged” a few times in comments
I also have refined my “codeword” selection to DefCom-3
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Lotsa thin-skinned sleepers on FR
Yeah.
That’s a good thread to save and for many to review.
Thx.
You must have been directing at someone else.
This is one ‘about to be sleeper’ soon, lol.
Used to be, in the early days,
the thin-skinned got hooted into silence rather quickly.
Seems too often now, the whiners get too much of their way. Though that may be getting back in order, now that I think of the last month or 3.
You’re welcome. I have it saved in my LINKS.
We use it when the normal link goes down.
I’ve forgotten the actual URL.
The Yahoo Groups "back-up" gathering site is here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freerepublic2/
It’s been a long time since I needed it, and was incorrect.
Another poster also corrected me, earlier.
Thank you, for providing the link, not just for me, but for anyone else too.
“I think he’s more inclined to put up with hazardous nooobeees as an unavoidable cost to allowing authentic Conservatives to the FR table.”
No problem, I made the mistake of posting before reading the other 250+ posts! ;-) (I just hit the “show replies” button and there were none).
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It was a “shotgun” post
Sleeper time soon here too
“To some degree, when things are busy, they rely on us old timers to alert them when things get too far over the line.”
Second, we’d have run out of MODS by now, as they would have shot themselves through the head, being forced to read every post on a thread they care nothing about.
Some say the MODS are not fair. I say, TOO BAD. LIFE SUCKS, YA KNOW!
The MODS are fair, in that they represent a variance in personality, opinion, and bias, much like the members of FREE REPUBLIC.
I know.
I don’t like it.
Each election, FR has become clogged, and each time, Mr. Robinson has increased his staff, and equipment to deal with the growth, and the problems.
We too, are responsible for Free Republic, by how we conduct ourselves, and our ability to deal with ill-intentioned visitors.
I’d rather he be able to, and fight the trolls that come (and they come all the time. Many of us, including yourself, have been at this for years and years) than have him lose that privilege, just to make it ‘easy’ for me.
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