Reports of Kos speaking at this conference:
Kos says being a "comment Nazi" and banning right-wingers from comments was instrumental to Daily Kos's success.
Says it all, no? Needless to say, that's not how we do business at Sound Politics.
UPDATE: in response to Bruce at comment #6, which mirrors an question I had in response to a post citing a Tweet recently, citing Tweets is now perfectly acceptable for public figures. If one pays attention to the blogosphere, including MSM sites, Tweets from respectable figures are being quoted/cited. Whether that's MSM types like Jake Tapper and George Stephanopolous or established bloggers like Matt Lewis and Patrick Ruffini, such Tweets are viewed as credible. That's the new reality. Get used to it.
Posted by Eric Earling at March 15, 2009 02:41 PM | Email ThisBS! HA is one of the worst. Little Eichman Clownstein is a filter NAZI.
Posted by: Clownstein on March 15, 2009 03:18 PMAnd it's appreciated.
--New Left Conservative # 1
Posted by: New Left Conservative # 1 on March 15, 2009 04:03 PMAre you saying that NO one has EVER been "banned" from SP?
Posted by: KVIFan on March 15, 2009 04:13 PMI could show you a few, but they've been filtered and cut...
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on March 15, 2009 04:45 PMI've only banned one commenter, ever...and that was actually a truly insane nutjob on the right who had a very bad habit of totally taking over comment threads. In addition, I junked a comment from someone advocating what I recall was rape of a public official.
I can't speak with certainty for other contributors, though I believe Stefan has banned two commenters to my knowledge.
Posted by: Eric Earling on March 15, 2009 05:15 PMAh, I see, the selective of banning of an exceptionally small handful of truly offensive commenters is the equivalent to religiously banning those with whom you disagree politically. Got it. Smooth thinking.
Posted by: Eric Earling on March 15, 2009 05:25 PMPudge, on the other hand, prefers to call people liars without any evidence and then shuts down the thread when he can't defend his ridiculous statements and even people who support his views have told him he is wrong.
Pudge cannot be wrong. Pudge is a legend in his own mind.
Posted by: correctnotright on March 15, 2009 07:45 PMSPEAK ENGLISH!
Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on March 15, 2009 08:05 PM#17 - Pudge has more evidence than you dare to believe to call certain others liars. It's easy for those who don't sway his views to play the victim card and I have seen him swayed - he is more detail oriented than most. I have disagreed with him about some interpretations, but he gets the big picture correct a vast majority of the time. If you don't believe this, I suggest that you take a poll, but I doubt if you will because you know what the results will show.
Posted by: KDS on March 15, 2009 08:32 PMWhen I go against Pudge in an argument - he has NOTHING, calls me a liar and runs away or shuts down the thread after I eviscerate his wimpy third-grade level ideas.
If Pudge has "more evidence than I dare to believe", he sure has not presented it. I guess all that evidence is still constipated, because the rest of the crap he presented wasn't worth the TP it came out on.
Posted by: correctnotright on March 16, 2009 07:16 AMNot true. A number of people have been censored by Stefan on SP.
This makes your blog even more unlikely to be believed.
Posted by: Comment on March 16, 2009 08:35 AMLeftists do two things when their ideas are challenged: The lie and resort to name calling. Or they use outright censorship. It's how they've played the game for years on the college campuses they control in every state.
I used to challenge comments on HA on occasion. I was told by one of the regulars, "don't you realize this is a liberal blog?"
I'm not aware of anyone being banned here. Jim Miller tends to shut down threads when they get nasty or deviate from the original topic. I don't fault him for doing so. He doesn't ban anyone because of their opinions as far as I am aware.
Generally Sound Politics welcomes dissent. I've long suspected that the leftist "trolls" are often the same person, or small group of persons. One can generally predict their behavior which, once they are presented with factual evidence, invariably disintegrates into a volley of sometimes very nasty personal name calling. For example, I received this well thought out, mature response on another thread from longtime commentor "demo kid" a couple days ago:
"And your mind is "open"? Bull. You're nothing but a washed up old coot, imploding in on your own impotence, with no interest in anything except for yourself. Get off my lawn"
Here, I think most of us take these kinds of comments from members of the esteemed opposition for what they are. Extremely revealing.
Kos and leftists in general don't want actual debate, or any sort of discussion about political philosophy. Can you say "fairness doctrine"?
It would be helpful if you knew what you were talking about, since a regular read of the comment threads reveals dissenting comments on the right as well as the left, often from the same souls who are never banned. Any regular reader/commenter can confirm that fact.
However, based on a couple clues, I suspect you are our old friend "Conservative not Republican" who has also tried going by "Steve," Sue," and a number of other names.
You have been warned.
Posted by: Eric Earling on March 16, 2009 10:46 AMThat means that if you are the same soul - the lone commenter I have ever banned from my threads - and start acting that way again, then yes, I will delete your comments without question. The very fact I've only banned one commenter ever might speak to what a moron we're talking about here.
Meanwhile, the stark deviation between your statements and the actual reality of my Sound Politics comment threads is both laughable and reveals your detachment from reality.
Posted by: Eric Earling on March 16, 2009 11:04 AMI don't recall that my "dissent" was stopped in any way.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on March 16, 2009 11:07 AMAnd I repeat, as the only person ever to be banned from my posts at Sound Politics that's quite an accomplishment.
@29 - "Kim" doesn't recall much because Kim isn't playing with a full deck. If one were, however, I'd say regular commenter Hinton is a great example of someone who disagrees with me vociferously and sometimes with venom, but who obviously is free to post away.
Posted by: Eric Earling on March 16, 2009 11:18 AMI say it all the time. The most frustrating aspect of participating in a local political blog is not really knowing anything about most commentors. This particularly applies to the leftists who post here. Not one of them will reveal honestly what they do for a living, whether they have familes, etc. Yet knowing some details about a person's life is essential when discussing political issues. For example, a guy running a construction business might have an entirely different political perspective than someone who teaches at Seattle Central Community College. I think that's important, though certainly I respect the right to anonymity. I've never found the slightest reason to be afraid of using my own name in years of writing to newspapers, or blogging here, or even on HA.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on March 16, 2009 11:44 AMPerhaps this is needed.
Meanwhile, I think anyone who has dealt with the aforementioned clown in any comment thread will attest to the accuracy of comment #29.
Posted by: Eric Earling on March 16, 2009 02:23 PM