There are quite a few new members to BW(dot)Com and I want to call your attention to some older content. In line with Bill’s newest endeavor, MB2A, this interview from July 2017 with Dave Rubin has some parallels. I think this content is still flagged members only as I tried to send it to some friends as a link.
I recall Bill and Dave both saying that they believe they could put together a platform upon which 80%+ in the country would agree, pulling from both sides of the aisle. Give it a listen. You’ll find it under shows/wayback shows/ After Hours.
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I wouldn’t want this discussion public. Firstly from a privacy point of view as I guarantee that some news site would be trawling your posts for titbits to put in their latest ‘Racist Republican Says…’ article; and secondly because the very fact that you cannot read it at will means that if you want to join in, then you need to pay up.
Valid Points – didn’t think past the idea of increasing membership.
One thing I had not thought of before reading Jack’s comment and yours is this. Any creep willing to invest 9.95 Soros sponsored bucks in their pocket can become a member at BWDC. As this site grows, I wouldn’t put it past the creeps to start joining just to do what they did at the Tea Party rallies. Troll and cause problems which they can pass off to the world as our beliefs, actions, etc.
Ok, creeps, join and troll us. Look at our comments, and the caliber of the members so far. So what will they come away with? That we’re all pretty darned good folks who believe in conservative values?
And so the creeps show up. How hard would be be to spot them? About as hard as spotting “Evil universe Captain Kirk” when he showed up on the Enterprise in a trans dimensional switcheroo with the good and decent Kirk landing on the Evil Enterprise. It was easy to spot the raging Kirk, as it was impossible for him to behave in a civil manner.
Decent Kirk was , once he figured out what was going on, easily able to adapt in order to act dastardly as to avoid detection.
Which makes me think, I’d invest a few bucks to join the creeps at the Communist Socialist party just to be a provocateur. James O’keefe can’t be the only one to have so much fun.
It’s one reason I’d like to see this move to a forum style of site, we can then appoint moderators from the community; allow certain sections access only after a length of time, amount of posting, or level of trust; and remove those who cause issues, post obviously trolling content and the like.
While I didn’t elaborate o this, certainly an ideal framework could have the ability to everyone decide whether his posts are public or member only — some forum stuff even allow to pick license. And certanly in an imagined transition the default would go for hidden, leaving members to switch. (handling quotes would be more tricky even in the fantasy, but let’s overlook it for now.)
To the main point, isn’t is closely related to many parts of the MB2A series? Bill looked for standing up, for courage, for people turning their back to claims being racist — to just pick a few.
If even the small amount of people who actively support the author of those ideas feel need to cover (and never mind the delusion about privacy on internet, or thinking those calls will not happen anyway), what is the chance to getting anywhere?
No pun intended, just pointing out that a secret society is usually only good to arrange a coup, not a real public movement and getting traction in a free society.
I agree. I don’t post on any other social media for a reason.
But I would probably join a parallelly-structured, member-managed forum located somewhere else.
I wish this site got some upgrades. It’s seriously lacking in the infrastructure. Being slow as hell is “just” a major annoyance, the real problem is no simple&easy access to the info already posted. (especially huge contrast compared to well maintained sites like boardgamegeek — maybe some of that could be picked up, or the stack exchange)
While at it, is there a good reason to keep the conversation behind the pay wall? It could be like Kickstarter, anyone can read, only posting is limited to be a backer.
That is a good suggestion. You should sent this to Scott via a “Bug Report”. I am sure the influx of new members has Scott working on improvements.
I think I recall that we tried Discus at one point, and people didn’t like that either. Also, when SB Nation moved all of their sites to something called Coral, I believe, and it was universally panned by the users. So if there is a platform that works pretty well let Scott know.
Good one!
There is so much good content buried here on the site, and no easy way to browse through it.
Thanks, Laura. Still hoping Scott will be able to post some of his old series on the constitution that he did at PJ. Don’t think he has rights to it, though.