Posted on 09/08/2007 5:16:05 AM PDT by kristinn
FR may be primitive in its architecture,
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I guess “primitive” is a synonym for “user friendly.”
Why SHOULD there be?
Blind allegiance only sets you up for ridicule later.
The “intellectuals” will decide what’s right for us, just give them manpower and $$$. It’s about power and not policy.
Go there anytime, watch them for a second and it's only "Three, two, one blast off" before one of the Kosmanuts goes ballistic.
That's cute but not intellectually stimulating.
“A rating system might work to freerepublic’s advantage.”
uh, the only FR “rating system” that matters is the option on the far right:
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yayhoo message boards allow posters to award stars, LOL
The author of the article would simply respond with "That's because you're a Neanderthal'!
Thanks for the post ... intereresting to have a look at FR from outside our ‘box’ ... even though that perspective drifted a little goofy, replete with snide put downs.
On my very first visit during the Whitewater days, I knew FR was the place to be.
I walk through the doors, sit and have a cup of coffee, read the news, listen to interesting conversation and sometimes join in the give and take.
Emphasis on “give” ... Freepers are hunter/gatherers ... roaming the wilds, bagging a critter and posting it on the wall for all to partake, or ignore, as we will.
Emphasis on “take” ... as I always come away from FR with a hat full of new information, sensible ways of looking at things that I might not have arrived at myself, and a feeling of friendship with people I’ll likely never meet except in cyberspace.
There’s more real news here on FR in a single day than all the networks and failing newspapers combined.
JimRob has done a wonderful thing for his friends, neighbors and Country ... may the Good Lord always bless him.
You know what I love best about FR’s format? The lack of emoticons... Too many sites I visit have become emoticon ghettos similar to DU.
lol
One of the most valuable and truly amazing features about FR is the way it covers breaking events. Not sure if KOS, DU etc do that too?
It has never failed- i.e. if there’s an earthquake in some obscure part of the world- either a freeper is there- or their first cousin is and just sent the freeper an email which is passed on to us...
We all come here ASAP the instant there’s big news anywhere- and that includes the globe- not just the US and Canada.
Saying FR is a conservative website is incomplete- it’s that..and a helluva lot more.
.. when something’s happening- my first thought is to log on here - I know I’ll find out what’s REALLY going on in less time than any cable station. Freepers provide links to live coverage of the event within 5-10 posts...followed shortly by other in-depth links to give context to the story. (What does strip mining mean? The map for the campus at Virginia Tech etc)
Absolutely remarkable.
Paging PJ Comix...white courtesy phone.
Actually, I think FR has the best forum interface on the Net. For instance, try joining one of those million generic bulletin boards and pinging someone...
That’s a good one of the little twerp.
In his response, Patrick Ruffini also discusses FreeRepublic, making a strong case that FR can indeed be considered the conservative Kos although not quite: “[T]here 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.”
Ruffini is correct in saying that FR will never completely fulfill the same role for the right that Kos does on the left; he’s also correct that FreeRepublic is more independent-minded than Kos. This is mainly due to the fact that FreeRepublic is run as a noncommercial, non-partisan, conservative web site. That very much sets it apart from DailyKos and the rest of left-wing blogosphere which is hyperpartisan and highly commercialized.
FreeRepublic’s different nature has prompted many GOP politicians and PR staffers to write it off as not useful to the cause. This is a huge mistake. In my eight years of being on FreeRepublic, I can say that Freepers can very readily be persuaded to enlist in worthy conservative causes. Almost every day there are Freepers out and about protesting left-wing Democrats, demonstrating against nutjob protestors, and representing the right in online polls and forums. I’ve had them help me out with a number of projects.
Freepers are some of the most energetic and involved members of the political web. The key to understanding and working with them is to realize that they’re not Republican robots. In that way, they are very much representative of the GOP base as a whole. The main reason Freepers won’t work with GOP politicians is the same reason Republican voters haven’t turned out for them: the Republican party has not sufficiently worked with them. If GOPers want Freepers to turn out and help the cause, they need to stop kowtowing to the liberal elite media, explain their policies to the public better, and come to a strong conclusion as to what center-right means for the Web 2.0 world. Once that’s done, the Freepers and the conservative base will turn out in droves.
I didn’t take “primitive” as being a dis. I think he meant it as this site has a very basic architecture for hosting our format.
I think you may be right. Different forum software has different features that appeal to diverse people. I lurked here for some time before signing up, so had a general idea about how it's set up, but the format is definitely different from any other I've seen. Not saying that's good or bad, just thinking of the old seventies tune, "different strokes for different folks". :)
Sincerely,
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Yup, FR has some features no other boards have, the ability to link posts together by post number and ping specific people.
That said, I still wish FR had a true HTML editor. I hate having to type in all the formatting codes all the time.
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