CDZ What is the neutrality of this site ?

[beagle9]

Is it off balance or is it operated in a neutral balance that works for the promotion of all opinions without bias or interference unless violate the rules ? Is there a lean ?

 

[Pogo]

If there is, we can't talk about it.
That's all I'm sayin'.

 

[Indeependent]

Neutral.
If you can't tell it's neutral after over 6,000 postings then nobody's input is going to help.

 

[beagle9]

Just checkin the opinion here, because it needs to promote neutrality always, and promote open debates without bias or interference unless someone breaks the rules. I think it does, but was wondering for some reason.

 

[beagle9]

Neutral.
If you can't tell it's neutral after over 6,000 postings then nobody's input is going to help.

. 6000 postings ? Who me ?

 

[cnm]

I'm still trying to work out how a site can have varying neutralities.

 

[ScienceRocks]

This site is very bias to the far right as most of its members appear to not like the government very much. Of Course, there's a few like me and some of the liberals here that do post in favor of our government.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The site is fairly neutral, imo.

 

[TheOldSchool]

This site is a bunch of crazy nutjobs battling each other and making zero progress, and sometimes the needle wobbles but it's usually stuck in the center.

 

[beagle9]

I'm still trying to work out how a site can have varying neutralities.

. Easy, stay neutral in varying ways right ?

 

[beagle9]

This site is a bunch of crazy nutjobs battling each other and making zero progress, and sometimes the needle wobbles but it's usually stuck in the center.

. Good answer, but not sure if it's zero progress. Ever heard of getting the word out sometimes is all it takes to light the fires ?

 

[beagle9]

Great site I must say or at least I've enjoyed it over the years.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Is it off balance or is it operated in a neutral balance that works for the promotion of all opinions without bias or interference unless violate the rules ? Is there a lean ?

Pretty much neutral. The Mods are not power mad.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

This site is very bias to the far right as most of its members appear to not like the government very much. Of Course, there's a few like me and some of the liberals here that do post in favor of our government.

Having no trust in government is hardly a bias.

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
- Thomas Jefferson

 

[cnm]

Easy, stay neutral in varying ways right ?

No, neutral or not neutral.

 

[320 Years of History]

Is it off balance or is it operated in a neutral balance that works for the promotion of all opinions without bias or interference unless violate the rules ? Is there a lean ?

I can't say whether the site itself is neutral or not. I can say that by my observations:

• The site's membership appears to be vastly more right wing than left wing. I base this anecdotal conclusion on the fact that I can count the number of left-leaning posts/members on one hand whereas I need more fingers and toes than I have to count the right-leaning folks.
• The membership eschews discussions that require one to address matters in intellectually rigorous ways, preferring instead to merely air their opinion, but provide little, or more often no, cogently developed support for it. I base this anecdotal conclusion on the fact that on the few occasions I've entreated for discussion based purely on credibly supportable lines of argument, nearly never has anyone taken up the task to present such lines of argument. In some cases, folks are unwilling to even answer simple questions.
  • Debate Now - True, somewhat true, not true, misunderstood, misspoken....
    
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• The membership here is quite willing to discuss topics, most notably economic ones, of which they have little to no real understanding. I base this conclusion on the following:
  • the frequency with which I see remarks that fully ignore basic economic concepts such as, but not limited to, elasticity of demand, buy-or-build decision making processes, comparative advantage, forms of competition and their characteristics, tariffs and quotas and their impacts, difference between a shift in supply/demand and movement along a supply/demand curve, etc.
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  • the infrequency with which I see folks cite peer reviewed papers to support their PsOV or lines of argument
  • the frequency with which I see editorial commentary cited in support of PsOV or lines of argument
  • the frequency with which I see folks make fallacious lines of argument
  • the frequency with which I see folks make completely unsupported assertions
  • the frequency with which I see folks raise points that bear no direct correlation to the topic under discussion and the writer makes no attempt to rationally draw the connection, assuming there might actually be one

What role the site's managers and administrators have in that being the nature of discourse on USMB, I cannot say.

 

[Pogo]

What role the site's managers and administrators have in that being the nature of discourse on USMB, I cannot say.

That's what the actual topic question is. And it's an exercise in futility, for we literally cannot say. We can say "the site is neutral" all we like but if we don't believe that we're prohibited from discussing it, so there's really no point to this thread.

 

[flacaltenn]

Easy, stay neutral in varying ways right ?

No, neutral or not neutral.

Well -- there's actually neutral on CONTENT -- which is what most folks measure and care about. But I think it's also neutral in representation..

Although I think we're short 7 Hispanics and a Mennonite..

 

[320 Years of History]

What role the site's managers and administrators have in that being the nature of discourse on USMB, I cannot say.

That's what the actual topic question is. And it's an exercise in futility, for we literally cannot say. We can say "the site is neutral" all we like but if we don't believe that we're prohibited from discussing it, so there's really no point to this thread.

I think one can say that the site's moderators and administrators:

• respond to member requests and do so equitably
• accord respect to members without regard to their own political persuasion(s)
• refrain from driving discussions in one direction or another
• exhibit indifference with regard to political PsOV expressed by members

The OP's question has two dimensions: (1) that of the site's character accruing from the membership and (2) that of site's character accruing from the site's operational management. There's little if any neutrality and/or objectivity in the former; the latter seems pretty decidedly neutral. The latter seems to me usually objective, but I've observed instances whereby the moderators have opted to squelch or modify the nature of thought in the interest of "keeping the peace" or maintaining the expressed tone of a given sub-forum. I may or may not concur with the mods' decisions in some of those things, but all in all the mods don't exhibit extremes of asceticism in their decision making. That's about as it should be, indeed as it must be, in a forum dedicated to political discourse.

 

[320 Years of History]

Although I think we're short 7 Hispanics and a Mennonite..

ROTFL