Ron Paul on Townhall

[Douglass Bartley]

http://rxpaul.townhall.com

Today:

Ron Paul Libel Virus Detector Still Working
Posted at 1:56:23 PM on Saturday, September 01, 2007

Case for Gold: By Ron Paul
Posted at 1:21:42 PM on Saturday, September 01, 2007

Texas GOP: Gov. Perry Said to Diss Ron Paul
Posted at 12:49:12 PM on Saturday, September 01, 2007

Texas GOP: Bring Back AuH20 and RR
Posted at 12:16:58 PM on Saturday, September 01, 2007

"Boom: Balance of Power Restored"
Posted at 11:47:47 AM on Saturday, September 01, 2007

Texas GOP: Hire Ron Paul, Finish Reagan Revolution
Posted at 10:53:26 AM on Saturday, September 01, 2007

Yesterday:

Texas GOP: Ron Paul: Pro-2nd Amendment . . .
Posted at 8:03:13 PM on Friday, August 31, 2007

Texas GOP: Ron Paul Carries Mantle of RR
Posted at 7:43:57 PM on Friday, August 31, 2007

Texas GOP: "A Time for Choosing"
Posted at 7:29:03 PM on Friday, August 31, 2007

Texas GOP: Ron Paul, Contrarian (i.e. Conservative) Repub.
Posted at 6:52:14 PM on Friday, August 31, 2007

Very Fun Ron Paul Index With Archive Link
Posted at 5:31:04 PM on Friday, August 31, 2007

Texas GOP: Save! the Constitution: Vote Ron Paul
Posted at 5:15:07 PM on Friday, August 31, 2007

Texas GOP Delegates: Chicken Pols Fly Texas Coup
Posted at 4:01:31 PM on Friday, August 31, 2007

Chicken Pols Fly Texas Coup
Posted at 8:53:46 AM on Friday, August 31, 2007

Bush Tenure: Unique Mix of Idiocy, Evil
Posted at 8:26:30 AM on Friday, August 31, 2007

What a Wonderful World
Posted at 12:13:26 AM on Friday, August 31, 2007

[Douglass Bartley]

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[Douglass Bartley]

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[LibertyEagle]

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[Douglass Bartley]

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[LibertyEagle]

Your blog looks wonderful, Doug.

[LibertyEagle]

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[Shink]

I love the Ron Paul Builds Goldwater "Rump" Wing bit. Gonna read some of the others now, thanks, keep it up, you two! Commented, by the way.

[Lord Xar]

I am not familiar with townhall... what is the significance of this?

[Shink]

I am not familiar with townhall... what is the significance of this?

Apparently Douglas and LibertyEagle have infiltrated the biggest GOP site there is and are spreading Ron Paul in a big way in doing so.

[jjschless]

Doug has the number one blog, out of 4500 or so, at a NeoCon stronghold. And it is devoted to Ron Paul. This is very significant in the blogosphere.

Doug how long has the blog been at one? Is it normal for a blog to remain at number one for an extended length on that site?

[LibertyEagle]

Doug is kicking some serious butt over there.

[LibertyEagle]

Apparently Douglas and LibertyEagle have infiltrated the biggest GOP site there is and are spreading Ron Paul in a big way in doing so.

Doug is the genius behind the blog. It's all him.

These days we aren't the only ones over there. Townhall has been infiltrated by several of us. :D More are certainly needed and welcome.

Dean, Townhall is the largest Republican website in existence. In addition to the columns they carry, which have a life of their own in the comments under each one, they also allow anyone to setup their own blog. There are currently 4500 of these blogs. Doug's blog Rx-Dr. Paul is numero uno! Quite a feat. And all of your visits over there help him to keep that title. It's important, because it gets his blog advertised much more, which in turn attracts even more visitors to learn about Ron Paul!!!

[specsaregood]

Liberty, you seem to know how to "use" that site. I find it's interface design abhorrent.

Is there something I am missing? Is there a way to "rate" particular articles, or blogs in general? I don't see it. Or is the #1 issue purely traffic related?

[Douglass Bartley]

Infiltrated is the right word, but now Townhall has its neo-con filters up for us. H0, ho.

[Douglass Bartley]

Thank you all. Come early, stay late. Blog No. 1 for about three weeks now. Back later.

[winston_blade]

Chuck Baldwin is a pretty big name. I think that Ron is making some progress.

[LibertyEagle]

Liberty, you seem to know how to "use" that site. I find it's interface design abhorrent.

Is there something I am missing? Is there a way to "rate" particular articles, or blogs in general? I don't see it. Or is the #1 issue purely traffic related?

Specs,

Just go to http://www.townhall.com/columnists/
Pick an article that you think is interesting and click on it. At the end of each article, there is an option to rate it. If you also want to comment on it, click on "comments" at the end of the article. You will need to register to comment.

The easiest way to register is to scroll to the bottom of the comments and fill out the form that you will see. After that, you're pretty set.

As for blogs, like Doug's my understanding is the way they get rated is by amount of traffic and length of time spent on the blog website. I'm sure comments don't hurt any either. This is Doug's blog....
http://rxpaul.townhall.com/

If you ever want to check it's rating, you do so by clicking, "Your blogs" at the top of the page, or by going here:
http://www.townhall.com/youropinion/

[Shink]

Thank you all. Come early, stay late. Blog No. 1 for about three weeks now. Back later.

Well, since every time I turn on the intronet, I click "restore tabs" or whatever (firefox;) ), I'll start leaving a tab of your website and bring it up every day and stay on it for long periods of time.

[specsaregood]

Specs,
Pick an article that you think is interesting and click on it. At the end of each article, there is an option to rate it. If you also want to comment on it, click on "comments" at the end of the article. You will need to register to comment.


Well, I have no problem commenting and whatnot, but I have yet to find the "Rate" option on the rxpaul posts.
Example:
http://rxpaul.townhall.com/g/5490922c-e65f-484f-9a0c-a3ffe5392ec2&comments=true#comments
http://www.littlebrothermedia.com/ronPaulDownloads/rxpaul.jpg

Is the rate feature only available on certain posts or certain blogs?

[LibertyEagle]

Specs.

I don't believe you can directly rate a blog. A blog gets its standings by the number of hits and the the time you spend on the blog reading articles. At least that is my understanding.

The ratings I was talking about have to do with the articles written by the regular columnists. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/

[Douglass Bartley]

And the number of page views and comments. Thanks everyone.

[LibertyEagle]

Chuck Baldwin is a pretty big name. I think that Ron is making some progress.

This is like the 3rd article he's written, in which he's mentioned Ron.

[LibertyEagle]

Very good video compilation, for those of you who haven't seen it.

Ron Paul -- A Man for All Seasons
http://rxpaul.townhall.com/g/8ec6962a-d7aa-4e2c-af1f-eb51359ad095&comments=true#95a0c4fa-9a78-4525-a623-9abf6bb36c7b

[Douglass Bartley]

Very good indeed as is the creator's site: http://republicanrenaissance.blogspot.com/ (http://republicanrenaissance.blogspot.com/)

[LibertyEagle]

Very good indeed as is the creator's site: http://republicanrenaissance.blogspot.com/ (http://republicanrenaissance.blogspot.com/)

Thanks, Doug. This looks to be a comment from the author:

Anyone who would like to distribute this video is welcome to a higher quality version of it, suitable for DVD. It is WMV format and is approx. 300MB, so it is much too large to send via e-mail attachment. If you know how I can get it into your hands, please e-mail me the info. and I'll be happy to do so.

-DM

So, if we want to get a higher resolution of it for duplication, it sounds like we can.

Is this one that we want to go together and pay to mass produce?

[Douglass Bartley]

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[Douglass Bartley]

I haven't seen the whole video, but if L. thinks it's good, I'll pay (my share, I mean), and I'll also issue a family edict to help. Our's is a large Catholic family, I might add.

[LibertyEagle]

I wish there was more in there about the proper role of government, something about states' rights, the relevance of our Constitution, etc., but from all those I have seen thus far, this one is the best that I can recall. If we wait around for perfection, we may miss the boat entirely. I did love how he interwove some of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan in there.

[Douglass Bartley]

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[Douglass Bartley]

Friends it's been good to know ya.

[LibertyEagle]

Friends it's been good to know ya.

Why are you sounding like you're going somewhere? :confused:

Ok, I see why. I just looked at your blog. ;)

Folks, you need to look over at Douglass' blog. He's outdone himself. :) http://rxpaul.townhall.com/

[LibertyEagle]

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[Douglass Bartley]

Narcissus smells rats in TH managment, which changed its blog rating "system", as a result of which Ron Paul knocked down from No. 1 to No. 3.

[LibertyEagle]

Yeah, and their rationale was more than just a little suspect. Especially since your blog has 5 TIMES the traffic of the sites above you.

[jjschless]

Yeah, and their rationale was more than just a little suspect. Especially since your blog has 5 TIMES the traffic of the sites above you.

WOW 5 times? I can't wait to see the data.

[specsaregood]

Why are you sounding like you're going somewhere? :confused:

Ok, I see why. I just looked at your blog. ;)

Folks, you need to look over at Douglass' blog. He's outdone himself. :) http://rxpaul.townhall.com/

Wow, it sounds rather Diebold-ian. I can see how that kind of bug would have happened and the reasoning behind the "fix". But if you have the data to prove your traffic superiority.......

From: http://rxpaul.townhall.com/g/aff936cf-8c97-4e15-921e-8f2b47ea70ff

"Thursday, August 30, 2007 1:44 PM

I [Josue] wanted to report a recent update that was completed on the Townhall Blogatorium Top Ten list. You will notice over the next few days some readjustments in the blog placement as a result of a bug fix implemented today.

We discovered a bug in the code that was causing blog link trackbacks to be counted as page views in the Top Ten counting functionality. As a result, bloggers that linked back to their own archives or posts would receive an incorrect larger number of "page views" that in fact where not actual reader page views. We have re-rendered the page view calculations with a fix in place, so the new Top Ten rankings should more accurately reflect the current running average of each blog's readership page views.

We apologize to all of our active and hard working bloggers for the mistake and thank you for your ongoing contributions to the great Townhall.com Blogatorium. "

[NoUseForAName]

Why does everything have to be a conspiracy theory? Its not like TH banned you. From what it sounds like the bug was legitimate. If they really wanted to get rid of you I dont think it would be that hard for them to delete you from the site.

[LibertyEagle]

Doug is working the stats now. He said the hits to his blog were 5 times higher than the nearest competitor, so it seems a little strange that he would be ranked below them. Let's wait to see the numbers.

[Douglass Bartley]

Doug may have been hasty. See edited version listed at Post #1.

[Douglass Bartley]

Why does everything have to be a conspiracy theory? Its not like TH banned you. From what it sounds like the bug was legitimate. If they really wanted to get rid of you I dont think it would be that hard for them to delete you from the site.

I may have been hasty, but there's no doubt about a Townhall "conspiracy", if you wish to call it that, against Dr. Paul. If nothing else, it's a conspiracy of silence. Add to that the fact that they censored "Liberty" last weekend. This is not mere negligence.

[NoUseForAName]

Doug is working the stats now. He said the hits to his blog were 5 times higher than the nearest competitor, so it seems a little strange that he would be ranked below them. Let's wait to see the numbers.

Sitemeter numbers are relatively worthless and can never be accurate in comparison to server or database based logging, which I believe is how townhall does it. They don't use sitemeter for ranking the user blogs. Do some research on the accuracy of sitemeter. Its not very good.

[Douglass Bartley]

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[Shink]

Does it still stand that the amount of time stayed at your blog helps your ratings? If not...it's kinda pointless for me to read everything and then just leave it up all day long.

[ghemminger]

Not sure about that one but wouldn't mind more help on my blog! Have you seen it?

[Shink]

Not sure about that one but wouldn't mind more help on my blog! Have you seen it?

You mean...THIS?
Ron Paul Walk Success
- - - http://www.itsmynet.info/GARKO.blog/?feed=rss2&p=439 - A Solid List of Things GARKO DESPISES http://www.itsmynet.info/GARKO.blog/?p=438 http://www.itsmynet.info/GARKO.blog/?p=438#comments Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:28:43 +0000 garko - - - - - - http://www.itsmynet.info/GARKO.blog/?p=438 - - - - http://www.itsmynet.info/GARKO.blog/?feed=rss2&p=438 - Aaron Russo and the Fight for Freedom http://www.itsmynet.info/GARKO.blog/?p=437 http://www.itsmynet.info/GARKO.blog/?p=437#comments Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:12:02 +0000 garko - - - - - - - - http://www.itsmynet.info/GARKO.blog/?p=437 ...

I clicked the link in your sig and I got mumbo jumbo...

[Douglass Bartley]

Does it still stand that the amount of time stayed at your blog helps your ratings? If not...it's kinda pointless for me to read everything and then just leave it up all day long.

Mr. Shink: Don't spend any more time there than you want to. Thanks for reading it. And the comments.

[LibertyEagle]

Mr. Shink: Don't spend any more time there than you want to. Thanks for reading it. And the comments.

Doug, what we're wanting to know is, what are the criteria that are examined for the rankings? I know you've said comments, hits and articles read, but does it have a positive impact for just sheer time spent on the site?

[specsaregood]

What I am interested in seeing is how townhall.com covers the straw poll. After all it is sponsored by townhall.com and named "Townhall.com Presidential Straw Poll"

So I wonder how they are reacting internally to being shunned by the "top tier" and most of the 2nd tier guys? Either they will have to give Ron Paul decent coverage or neglect their freaking event!

[Douglass Bartley]

http://rxpaul.townhall.com (http://rxpaul.townhall.com)

Texas GOP: Bring Back AuH20 and RR
Posted at 12:16:58 PM on Saturday, September 01, 2007

"Boom: Balance of Power Restored"
Posted at 11:47:47 AM on Saturday, September 01, 2007

Texas GOP: Hire Ron Paul, Finish Reagan Revolution
Posted at 10:53:26 AM on Saturday, September 01, 2007

[Douglass Bartley]

Specs: Your wish was granted. Link posted.

[specsaregood]

Specs: Your wish was granted. Link posted.

Thanks and commented there.
I also just noticed you are back at the #1 spot. Keep on fighting!

[BrazilLuLa]

http://www.townhall.com/blog


More Anti-Paul Posts! They really hate our guy.

[LibertyEagle]

Yeah, the people who work for Townhall are nothing to write home about. That's for sure. It says a lot more about them when they insult us and Dr. Paul, than it does about us.