Slavery Is a Mere "Nit" to Republicans

Digging it deeper (2.00 / 2)

Every time Bob McDonnell's supporters try to defend him, they just make it worse. Here's a letter to the editor in today's Roanoke Times:

Like it or not, the Civil War and the Confederacy are integral parts of Virginia's history, and you cannot rewrite history no matter how loud your voice or large your platform might be.

I don't recall this media feeding frenzy during anything to do with Black History Month.

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by: TheGreenMiles @ Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 11:28:34 AM UTC

Where did the other comments here go? (4.00 / 1)

It says there are four comments, but only Miles comment is showing. What's up with that?  

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by: Brian W. Schoeneman @ Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 18:16:05 PM UTC

There's a hidden comment. (0.00 / 1)

n/t

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by: lowkell @ Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 18:44:41 PM UTC

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Hidden? (4.00 / 1)

As in censored? Or is there some way of being able to see them that I haven't figured out yet?

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by: Brian W. Schoeneman @ Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 18:47:32 PM UTC

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Oh god, not this "censored' b.s. again. (0.00 / 1)

How may times do we have to go through this?  This is a COMMUNITY blog with a RATINGS SYSTEM (difficult concept, I know). As with pretty much every other community blog in existence, if a comment gets enough "troll" ratings, it disappears except for "trusted users." Do I really have to explain Blogging 101 to you?  

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by: lowkell @ Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 19:05:09 PM UTC

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Not to mention that the concept of (0.00 / 1)

"censorship" applies to the government suppressing free speech rights. Given that a blog isn't the government, it doesn't have to allow any comments at all, can ban anyone it wants, can delete any comments it wants, etc., etc. Again, this is Blogging 101, what about it don't you understand?

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by: lowkell @ Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 19:06:12 PM UTC

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My experience with "community blogs" is about zero (4.00 / 1)

This is the only community blog that I read, so forgive me if I'm not up to speed on all this stuff. I just think it's pretty unfortunate that you let folks censor things they disagree with by rating them zero. I, personally, would like to read everything, regardless of community ratings.

Too bad there's no way to set that up.

And, for the record, we don't allow censorship over at TC. You are free to come over and debate me whenever you want Lowell, and we won't censor what you write.  

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by: Brian W. Schoeneman @ Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 19:11:41 PM UTC

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You could read everything (0.00 / 1)

if you were a trusted user. So, work on getting enough "mojo" and eventually you might become one.  Again, though, it's not "censorship" unless the government does it. On a private blog, like TC, I would not only expect but hope that you'd moderate comments to an extent.  You wouldn't leave a stream of profanity or pornographic content up there, would you?  No, didn't think so...

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by: lowkell @ Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 19:15:17 PM UTC

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Yeah, right (4.00 / 1)

Unless I suddenly woke up tomorrow as the reincarnation of JFK, I doubt I'm ever going to get enough "mojo" to become one. It seems as though a few folks on here like to give 0 and 1s to anything they disagree with. That's unfortunate.

We only moderate out the spam and the pr0n. Profanity is okay to a certain extent, but what we never, ever do is let anyone moderate comments based on content. I guess that's where I have the problem.

What does it say about the community when the community is intolerant of opposite opinions?  

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by: Brian W. Schoeneman @ Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 19:24:28 PM UTC

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To the contrary, I think you'll find a great deal (0.00 / 1)

of tolerance here for opposing viewpoints, intelligently and civilly expressed.  When comments become belligerent, ad homimem, or untruthful, it's a different story though...

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by: lowkell @ Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 19:31:31 PM UTC

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Have you looked through the number of ratings for my comments? (4.00 / 1)

I don't think I've ever been belligerent, ad hominem or deliberately untruthful (although I have made mistakes). That hasn't stopped folks from giving my comments zeros and ones, including you, Lowell.

As I said before, I don't expect tolerance from Democrats on the internet - they are quick to point out intolerance in others but not so much when it comes to looking in the mirror.  

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by: Brian W. Schoeneman @ Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 19:59:10 PM UTC

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