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SmittenKitten
2011/08/31 17:48:42
Check out the HOT list.
Out of 13 politically-related questions, 12 are from Conservatives. This is better than most days. Most days there are no questions submitted by Liberals. WHY? Sodahead won't tell us.
Look at this one:
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/confirmed-barock-obama-...
Going into it's 3rd day on the HOT list, it has 506 opinions.
My question, which ran over the weekend, now has over a thousand opinions. Within 20 hours of being published, it had more opinions than the top question listed on Page 1 of the HOT list, on that very same day.
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/barack-obama-will-be-th...
My question, however, never appeared on Page 1 of the HOT list. I did find it on Page 2, for a very brief time, but as it received more activity, it was moved farther back on the HOT list. The last time I saw it, I found it on Page 12, even though it was more active than the top question listed on Page 1 of the HOT list.
And look at this question. It's on the HOT list and has only received 33 opinions . . . after 5 HOURS, less than 7 responses an hour!
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/obama-making-speech-wit...
This question is averaging less than 6 responses an hour.
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/a-possible-scandal-in-t...
This is an embarrassing situation for Sodahead. This is what they claim in their marketing propaganda:
"SodaHead is the premier opinion-based community where visitors discover, debate, and discuss today's hottest issues. They share their unique views on breaking news, hot topics and controversial issues and a diverse panel of staff writers provide original and exclusive content daily.
With that many angles, the discussions on SodaHead will open your eyes to a panoramic view of your world that you won't get anywhere else, allowing you to see the big picture and discuss it."
When you only promote the views of one side, the other sides are not represented. That doesn't equate to, "many angles"; it equates only to one.
Don't you think that Sodahead has a responsibility to live up to its claims?
Out of 13 politically-related questions, 12 are from Conservatives. This is better than most days. Most days there are no questions submitted by Liberals. WHY? Sodahead won't tell us.
Look at this one:
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/confirmed-barock-obama-...
Going into it's 3rd day on the HOT list, it has 506 opinions.
My question, which ran over the weekend, now has over a thousand opinions. Within 20 hours of being published, it had more opinions than the top question listed on Page 1 of the HOT list, on that very same day.
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/barack-obama-will-be-th...
My question, however, never appeared on Page 1 of the HOT list. I did find it on Page 2, for a very brief time, but as it received more activity, it was moved farther back on the HOT list. The last time I saw it, I found it on Page 12, even though it was more active than the top question listed on Page 1 of the HOT list.
And look at this question. It's on the HOT list and has only received 33 opinions . . . after 5 HOURS, less than 7 responses an hour!
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/obama-making-speech-wit...
This question is averaging less than 6 responses an hour.
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/a-possible-scandal-in-t...
This is an embarrassing situation for Sodahead. This is what they claim in their marketing propaganda:
"SodaHead is the premier opinion-based community where visitors discover, debate, and discuss today's hottest issues. They share their unique views on breaking news, hot topics and controversial issues and a diverse panel of staff writers provide original and exclusive content daily.
With that many angles, the discussions on SodaHead will open your eyes to a panoramic view of your world that you won't get anywhere else, allowing you to see the big picture and discuss it."
When you only promote the views of one side, the other sides are not represented. That doesn't equate to, "many angles"; it equates only to one.
Don't you think that Sodahead has a responsibility to live up to its claims?
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SodaHead 2011/08/31 20:46:41
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At this point it is getting boring listening to the same campaign lies and the same blame game against any and all who oppose this idiot in brief. In the end Obama will get his butt kicked, things will go back to normal and sites like this will disappear as people will have better things to do.
So yeah I agree with you but if SH didn't take the liberal role what else would there be but conservative opinions.
and Spunkysmum, they were eliminated for far less than what liberals got away with.
It is what it is and we have the choice to stay or leave. Personally I stay for a few friends but quite frankly this is getting real boring and the new breed of liberals are just a bunch of high school punks that are looking to vent their adolescent frustrations.
Translate: No one likes your lame threads.
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You have a beef with SH because majority respondents on this social network are conservatives?
How about you going on HaffPo, Salon.com, Media Matters, etc. and demand the same thing from them. Post equal amount of liberal and conservative comments to articles on the site.
If you will be able to do that, come back to SH and post your censorship rant again.
FYI, people posting on this site are exercising their right given to them by the first amendment to the constitution. This site respect the first amendment and lets people like you, to post their unconstitutional views unrestricted.
Respect it.
There might be a time in a short future that a right-wing conservative government will ban any leftist opinion to be in the public view, including internet. Surely your own hero in the White House and people like you are laying the path for it.
Because the way I see it, there is no favoritism. They post a question, we reply. They post a follow up question, we reply. They combine the results and post it in another blog.
As a matter of fact, if we are talking about favoritism, my personal opinion is that the polls and blogs posted by SodaHead, not the questions but what you the actual blogs, are written by leftists or left-leaning people.
That is my opinion.
Understand one thing, if you cannot understand anything else. DEMOCRACY. You know what it is all about. The majority rules. And luckily for me and unluckily for you there is much more conservatives on this network then there is liberals. No-one is forced to sign up nor no-one is forced to quit. No-one has to pay to be here, of pass any kind of acceptance test. If you have a beef with Sodahead not balancing the political voice, have a beef with your fellow liberals who refuse to join the network. Don't look for equality in poll outcomes and equality in opinion that is fabricated. Look for democracy - aka majority prevails.
Please get the concept of Democracy right, because the next administration, hose and senate is most likely to be in the republican’s hands. That is a strong possibility. If that happens, it will happen b...
Understand one thing, if you cannot understand anything else. DEMOCRACY. You know what it is all about. The majority rules. And luckily for me and unluckily for you there is much more conservatives on this network then there is liberals. No-one is forced to sign up nor no-one is forced to quit. No-one has to pay to be here, of pass any kind of acceptance test. If you have a beef with Sodahead not balancing the political voice, have a beef with your fellow liberals who refuse to join the network. Don't look for equality in poll outcomes and equality in opinion that is fabricated. Look for democracy - aka majority prevails.
Please get the concept of Democracy right, because the next administration, hose and senate is most likely to be in the republican’s hands. That is a strong possibility. If that happens, it will happen because of democratic elections, which would mean that majority of people disagree with liberalism and see liberalism as failed ideology. Whether they are right or wrong is a different subject but if you believe in Democracy, respect the voice of majority.
make blogs and polls concerning what is being done, and not one of whining and you might see yourself on the hot page