I disagree that they delete opposing viewpoints.

It’s happened to me. I’ve seen happen to others, and I’ve seen others say it’s happened to them. And I recall an article in which Susan was encouraging people to come back to NQ, and admitted that the moderators had gone overboard in the past in deleting posts and banning people.

This happens, I think, because there is a very large NQ constituency that will not brook any disagreement with their views, and which labels all disagreement as trollery.

This is not just limited to the many, many commenters who routinely say “troll” to anyone who disagrees with them. NQ writers do it, too. NewHampster once put up an article from The Economist that referred to Hillary’s feminist credentials. The first comment responded on topic by criticizing Hillary’s feminism, which prompted a long and spirited thread. NewHampster reacted very badly to that, posting a long and bitter article the next day about how a “troll” had hijacked his thread, how all the comments were the “wrong” comments as a result, and how NQ readers should ignore “trolls” like the one who disagreed with him. He even claimed that Obama paid that reader to come here and disagree with him.

NewHampster’s demand was this: don’t disagree with me or talk to anyone who does. That attitude is so commonplace at NQ that no one should be surprised that dissenting views are deleted by an undefined group of moderators who act anonymously and surreptiously.

More accountability and transparency would help. Require moderators to identify themselves when they edit comments, and to acknowledge and explain their deletions.

(NQ focuses on the birth certificate?)

And I disagree that they delete opposing viewpoints.

You have done so much with just raw talent and passion, and the rapid evolution of this site and your audience is astounding.

I voted for you, and will ask my friends out here to do so, too.

Paul Kaihla
Soul’s Code
San Francisco

By the way, for those of you who haven’t heard…the site “Wonkette” is on a vendetta against puma sites. They have urged their readers to vote against Uppity Woman (for Best New Blog) and vote instead for a site they never read themselves, but thought the name was “cool”. (I can’t remember the name)

Wankette is up against the Confluence, and their website is busy trashing anyone who is not an obama worshipper. Their arrogance is really breathtaking, they apparently think they have the power & right to control the voting process.

So don’t forget when you vote, to support Uppity Woman for Best New Blog & the Confluence for Best Liberal Blog!

Please consider Michael Yon for best Milblogger

He Further Exposed the Abuses done to Valorie Plame nd Joe Wilson…(God Bless Them) and many other items of extreme interest have been reported here before they even became Main Stream Media issues..

Larry has never been an ASS KISSER…

He and Susan and Many here are My Kind of People…STREET FIGHTERS…

Larry has Championed Equal Right..and brought in the Outstanding Talents of susanUnPC..UppityGal..and so many other great People…His blog has attracted a wide Range of Multi Talented Peole…

Sure…Larry gets BLUNT…what you see is What you get..I like that…In the REAL WORLD.where Larry has Been….Life is Blunt..tragic…Dirty..Cut Throat..
Competitive..Dangerous…and the Game is DEADLY SERIOUS..Whwere People Die…and people use Blunt Language..Like Fuck..Shit..God Damn it..Bastards..and they see people Die and other People trying to Kill before being Killed…

If You can’t handle that…Grow Up…

I will drink a beer with larry and Susan and Light Larrys Cigar and Say..Thank You for your Service Larry anytime..

More than I can Say about…Bush..Cheney..Rumsfeld..and thier NEO~CON
CO-CONSPIRATORS…who have left our Nation In a Shambles..
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Oh…and who GREEN LIGHTED Israels HEAVY METAL Armored and Air Attack of Gaza…Leaving the Middle east in More Turmoil and a Large Burden on President Elect Obama…or else why did Bush and Isreal pre plan this Operation…??

Its Overkill as usual..Indiscriminate..Senseless REVENGE..

Just Who Infiltrated Palestine in 1948 and terrorized the Palestenians in the First Place..??

Who Put them on thier RESERVATION now called GAZA..??

Israel Did…The Zionists…There is No Difference between what they have done there to the Palesteians…and what The American Army did in the United States to The Indians at Wounded Knee..

A Lot of hatred and Resentment have been Created and in reality..It is really Understandable..

Manifest Destiny..?? I dont know..I’m not god..

Thats REALITY..Larry is a Realist and has the Guts to Speak the Truth and Challenge Issues and Institutions..Exposing other Sides and Points..

Thats Why I LIKE him…and No Quarter..

I consider Larry a guardian of the gate..and of Our Constitution..

long Live free Speech…

Please vote for Ace of Spades for Best Conservative, Day by Day for best cartoon, and F— You, Penguin for best Pet blog.

Vote for Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) for best celebrity blog. Yeh, I feel dirty endorsing that twerp, but I don’t want Margaret Cho to win.