The rating system is flawed. Before you all start reading this, then clicking on "weathercoins" to see if im a troll or something: im not a troll. But I was just looking at the 'hidden comments'(for TU users, comments can be seen even if the rating is under 1.0, otherwise they are deleted).
MOST OF THE HIDDEN COMMENTS ARE NOT BAD.
The Hidden Comments are mostly Republicans. MOST OF THEM JUST EXPRESSED THEIR POINT OF VIEW. There is no annoying troll. Some of them say their point of view-- even sometimes in a question, and are given "0's" and are taken off the comment list. Then people, such as most recently someone by the name "wallace", continue to post things asking why their comments were taken off. Yeah, that can be annoying.
BUT THEY ARE RIGHT. Dkos is a liberal blog. Liberal=free-thinking.
When the opposition posts their disagreements with us, it is great for us to respond: maybe we will have won over a new voter. But when we silence the opposition, as in saying the opposition should not be seen, we are acting just like the Republican blogs. If them.
We say we want open debate in this country, and we go so far to achieve it. Dkos has probavly even made accomplishments on a large-scale, such as Boxer voting our way then crediting us with decision.
But if we truly want open debate, how about if we start by not immediatly silencing "dissenters"?
Do you guys agree, or does this post sound incredibly stupid? IF YOU AGREE, RECCOMEND! (and if I dont get any reccomedations, I guess I'll know why :))