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Originally posted by Spanky
I challenge anyone to find a better political discussion board than this one. This one is awesome. It is the perfect balance of facts and emotional attacks. For a while it was getting little high brow and touchy feely. The moderator (Ty) changed the tone by starting to be nice and polite to everyone, but that has since been rectified. Now the sarcasm and zingers are back. Politics is like sex. It is only fun if it gets a little nasty.
Most boards are just full of emotional baseless attacks (without any substance) or people preaching to the choir, or boring technical discussions. This one has great balance and a great give and take.
Anyway - that is just my opinion
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I have given up on the FB board. It is just too boring. Ty, maybe you could try and spice it up a little like you do this board? When this one gets dull you are good at throwing a piece of meat out. The FB board could definitely use some spice.
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I've been struggling with something re. this board for awhile now, and just today got an answer. I think no one will argue that at least half of the Dems who post here are too dumb, and apparently poorly trained in advocacy, to really compete with any of the Reps we let stay.
I've asked myself, why are so many bottom dwellers from their side allowed to stay- why don't the Dems clean their own house and run off some of the poorer examples? Truly, if my issues were being argued as poorly as most of what the Dems put up here, we would have a PM counsel with the substandard poster, and ask him to simply lurk.
Anyway today I got what may be a partial answer:
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release...ease_id=178875
- Republicans Outnumber Democrats Online, According to Nielsen//NetRatings
NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- November 01, 2006 -- Nielsen//NetRatings (NASDAQ: NTRT), a global leader in Internet media and market research, announced today that 36.6 percent of U.S. adults online are Republicans, 30.8 percent are Democrats and 17.3 percent are Independents. With campaign Web sites becoming increasingly important to reaching the electorate, candidates need to keep their fingers on the political pulse of the Internet.
So there aren't enough Dems and they can't be as selective- in order to maintain diversity here we have to allow the dullards to stay, is that it?
