On right wing discussion boards, are glaring errors corrected by other posters?

[Buzz Clik]

DU can get really feisty when somebody disagrees with posted material. We correct factual errors routinely, and even opinions that are essentially unsupportable get blasted.

Does the same happen at conservative discussion boards? I know that some DUers watch Freeperville and a few others quite closely and might be able to provide insight.

For example, if some Freeper stated, "The United States has more proven petroleum reserves than the entire Middle East," would this poster be descended upon to prove this nonsense or, better yet, would some Freeper swiftly disprove this fallacious claim? My very limited experience tells me this rarely happens.

[Scuba]

1. In my small sample, such errors are not corrected, they're propagated.

[Buzz Clik]

2. DUers aren't perfect, and some of our members repeat claims that are simply wrong. But, ...

... generally somebody steps up and makes the correction.

[Agschmid]

3. Much more of a herd mentality.

But grammatical and spelling mistakes which can take you down here on DU are often overlooked completely.

[L0oniX]

15. There is a "herd mentality" here too ...it's just not as large ...and it's topic dependant.

[Agschmid]

16. Very topic dependent...

Ill admit I was part of the beyonce wars...

[Cleita]

4. Back in the days before DU and when boards were pretty open to everyone,

errors were posted, but so were facts, but the discussions deteriorated so quickly that the trolls basically took over every discussion with every ad hominem they could fling at a liberal, even using liberal like a dirty word. That was more than a decade ago.

As far as freeperville, it's very easy to get PPR'd there if you don't agree with everything the administrator of that website believes in.

[Buzz Clik]

5. So, correcting an error could get you dumped if that error is critical to rightwing argument?

[Cleita]

7. Yes, if it's an error FR wants to perpetuate. They don't care much about facts

but ideology.

[MineralMan]

6. Not very often. On most of them, those who correctly

point out the flaws in the right-wing memes are summarily booted off the sites.

[Buzz Clik]

9. Do you hang out much at Freeperville? Lurking?

I tried a couple of times, but the format of the board has not evolved since about 1995. I find it unreadable.

[MineralMan]

11. I never go there. I posted on that site several years ago,

but was banned there in 2006, and really haven't bothered to look at it much since, except for looking at an occasional link from here. I don't think I've looked at the site even for that for at least three or four years, now. There's nothing there worth looking at.

[Buzz Clik]

17. I hear that!

[leftyohiolib]

8. god i hope not i'd hate to think they ARE being corrected and they're still so mis-informed

or maybe it's a case of wilfull ignorance

[Buzz Clik]

10. "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."

Do we really want to keep it that way?

[rrneck]

12. The internet facilitates confirmation bias. nt

[Buzz Clik]

18. The echo chamber effect...

[CJCRANE]

13. They just repeat what they want to believe.

The reason why I'm a DUer and not a Freeper is because DUers have had always had more information and more facts and an attitude of not suffering fools or letting our intelligence be insulted.

[Populist_Prole]

14. Back years and years ago when I leaned more right then left

I recall on various forums that when someone posted something over-the-top crazy or stupid, most of the corrections/chiding were not due to the view as such, but more for the worry that it was impolitic. Now these weren't political forums as such, but general "lounge" type boards in forums of other interests/hobbies and politics were the most common subject.

The most common complaint among posts were people calling each other's claim to an ideology in question just because they didn't tow every aspect of the neocon line. Yeah, herd mentality.

[Buzz Clik]

19. Democrats agree on only about 50% of their platform items; we argue bitterly among ourselves.

That's why it is trivial for moles to come to DU and go undetected for years.