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Let us know your ideas on how to improve this new site!

As we just launched this site, we're still adding features and ramping up promotion. Let us know what you'd like to see here and we'll make it so! Our goal is to help facilitate not only the exchange of ideas but to help consolidate a clear message on important topics.

Also, please give us your thoughts on how we should best position this site so as to live up to the ideals of the IDW movement.

Thanks so much!

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I just got here! 😀
Let me look around and I'll get back to you.

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When I started listening to Ben and Dave I would have considered myself liberal. Now I'm a constitutional conservative. A big thank you to everyone who kindly debated with me, you all helped open my eyes to the hypocrisy of the left. I will always support free thinkers and freedom.

Wow, that's a pretty big jump on the surface but not incompatible to share both liberal and conservative viewpoints. It's also helpful to share concerns when deciding on policies.

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I hope this site will remain free of sanctions for speech. I am so tired of Facebook telling me I have violated their community standards for posting somethin about Muslims or CHRISTIANITY. Tired of being in Facebook jail!!

Just remember to humanize any enemy that you might have. I have to re-read the "turn the other cheek" passage as to how many times are you required to turn cheek before speaking your mind?

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I think as long as you stick to your original intentions you will be fine. Dont allow this to get as convoluted as Facebook or as biased

Yeah, we're thinking more about design now. Do we want to be more reddit or Facebook. I'm thinking something in between where longer posts and comments are encouraged. FB seems to get more one-liners. Reddit a bit too tangled.

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Thanks Admin, I will

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Excited to be here!

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As a retired educator, I am most concerned by the lack of knowledge students have today about American history and American Exceptionalism, in favor of pushing a Socialist agenda. My other concern is that freedom of speech is increasingly threatened. I’m here for the exchange of ideas and the access to Peterson’s Walsh’s, Levin’s, etc. writings and speeches.

Our first phase is community. Next will be more educational resources on the movement.

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I think a “question of the day” selected and discussed could try to focus people into one topic.

Yep! Thinking of a featured question or video every day so to help focus the community on a daily idea. ?

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I think it would be hard for someone who is not already a fan of one of the main figures of the IDW to find a place on this site. I do not know how big your team is or what kind of resources you have, but perhaps some sort of video outlining each of the (biggest) IDW members' views (or a separate video for each one added to their bios) would help people to decide to join a group. And maybe the groups centered around specific people could be called something other than "fan" groups. I am part of a couple of such groups and I would not consider myself a fan of the figures, but I do like to see what kind of thought is going into the posts in these groups.

Agreed that we need to start adding more value to communicate the ideas of the IDW. We'll start that this week - will take a few weeks to get it live.

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There should be a message and it should read like this.

Welcome to The IDW Community. We humbly ask that you do not engage in trolling or shitposting. We do not threaten to censor you or ban you if you do decide to engage in these activities. We are simply asking that you do not. If (like us) you agree that there is little precious time to fine a solution to the empanding changes that threaten our civilisation (and make no mistake that is what we believe and what we are trying to do) then we are sure you agree the 100% of our energy must be dedicated to this task, this discipline.

Thank you in advance for adding to the discussion in good faith.

I am sure you guys could compose this with more eloquence.

Interesting. We could have that be some sort of pledge taken before allowed to post?

I kinda sorta like the idea, but because so much commentary is miswritten (or misread), one person's attempt at satire or a bad joke will be another person's trolling shitpost, so it's hard to make the distinction sometimes. (And let's face it, general literacy has not gotten much better over the years.)

And we don't want this place to devolve into Facebook's mode of having teams of reviewers to arbitrate complaints (which we know are usually biased and somewhat arbitrary - and besides, FB has the teams of people; this place may never, we hope), so maybe we could have some kind of community policing. We don't necessarily want to throw people off the island (as a general rule, and I don't think it's wise to give people that kind of power, anyway), but perhaps there could be a sort of rating system within groups where group members' ratings are collected through some kind of algorithm that adds or detracts weight to the various comments.

By that I mean that aside from the "like" reactions (which include "angry", but may not necessarily mean "this is a bad comment" ), it would be useful to add "comment ratings" indicators: "this is a helpful comment" vs. "this is not a helpful comment" (or "this is an unhelpful comment", to make it more obvious), and the collection of "helpful" vs. "unhelpful" ratings would elevate a person within that group. (Because participation and commentary may vary between groups, too.)

@Admin I actually do love the idea of a pledge. A very specific pledge. If you violate the terms of that pledge your post can be censored. I think this is a great idea. The key though is that it must be short and simple and that the it must be enforce exactly as intended. LOVE THE IDEA!

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Do you have an app yet?

Yes, both Android and iOS/Apple apps have finally been approved. We will start putting up links today or tomorrow!

@Admin thanks admin. I'm really looking forward to it.

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I just signed up a few minutes ago. I opened the email link to verify my account, but the idw page is telling me that it couldn't verify, and to try again.

I had the same problem, but found the email in my spam folder.

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Keep the conversation open. This will be awesome. Different opinions, open conversations. No snowflakes.

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I love the place... the idea... the people are absolutely great.

just one thing .. Let's allow GiF Meme. 🙂 they are fun to make.
That's my suggestion

I'll see what can be done - will probably just limit animated gifs to posts/comments (and not profile photos)

@Admin Of course. We just wanna (or I wanna lol) take something like the invasion of the body snatcher.. or the SNL sketch living in the VAN by the river and put some statement in those... they are hillarious if you get into it LOL.

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FIrst and foremost, please de-clutter the page. I think there are many design patterns that I think could be incorporated to 'beautify' the page, but the first thing that jumped out to me was how busy my home page was when logging in. This was the first thing that jumped out at me.

Love the idea of the website though, and I am happy that something like this is being made! Looking forward to getting to know the community and site more!

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I just saw this today for the very first time, fantastic!
I am in a couple of conservative groups on Facebook and enjoy them very much, one of the subjects that comes up quite often is how everyone wishes that there was a good alternative to FB. I will be letting the people in those groups know about IDW. I have not checked out everything here yet but if you have it set up to where people can share links,media and pictures, I think that this will be a huge success. The problems with other social media sites were that the setup was cumbersome and difficult to navigate through, so inevitably people that would go to the other sites would only use it a couple days then revert to using FB. I enjoy listening to Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager as well as many of the others listed here. I am looking forward to using this site and hopefully we have all found a new social media home to replace FB.

Our user interface is still version 1.0 and we're working to making it easier to use.

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Looks good. Just joined.

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Hi, Atheist secular humanist here and antitheist but not a militant one. I'm from Luton and have experienced a huge influx of Muslim communities.
I am worried about combating the dilution of ethics I hold valuable whilst by placing my loved ones in danger. So any advice, give me a shout!
Also as we enter a new age of technology and the communications boom that's brought, we will see many changed in global attitudes. I think the turnover of new information creates much faster turns in social evolution and I hope this site will help perpetuate reasonable debate.

We're championing truth, facts, and reason regardless if they may hurt someone's feelings. We want to promote the fact that any preclusion of reasoned, humanistic, and civil opinion is evil. This used to be the normal position but political correctness has run out of universal appear (e.g., almost everyone agrees that the N-word is offensive but now what is considered "taboo" is anything the far Left doesn't agree with) and has been weaponized in order to silence objection. We're here to fight back. Welcome!

@Admin Then let us replace left wing and right wing views with correct ones

I left the UK many years ago, but I understand your fears. I honestly don't know if there is a solution to the "Islam" issue being inimical to western ideas. They seem to be stuck in a century long gone, and until they catch up, we will continue to have cultural conflicts. It's very sad; back in the '70's I had many Muslim friends, exchange students from the middle east. Everything seemed to go bad with the Ayatollah Khomeini.

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An app would be nice.

The Android app is approved and we're almost done with the iPhone one (we've been fighting with Apple on approval). Once both are live, we'll promote the heck out of them. 🙂

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I Just joined the site but it sounds like you're trying bring like-minded people together for a real discussion and I'M IN! I'll continue to look around and give my humble opinion if/when necessary. lol

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I knew this site was coming and I am happy to be a part of the social conversations that aim to enrich our objectivity and perspectives .

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I have learned so much from the people involved with this new and much needed website. Just signed up so don’t feel I have enough experience with it to be making suggestions at this time

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I’m a Democrat, but just barely. I am left bobbing in the wake of the blue wavelet. I’m glad there are people willing to consider another idea or viewpoint. I bring 40 years knowledge of caring for the frail elderly, I am a retired RN with a small business trimming toenails in the clients home. I am an Army Veteran, 95b, and lived on a commune for a year when I was young. You have done a good job with this site. If I can find it and use it, anyone can. Thanks.

Ah, don't sell yourself short! We still have to figure out if we want to pull out extremists away from their party or toward a more enlightened one.

Today, I feel we are all alien our historically familiar identities such as Democrat or Republican. ..
I see myself more than ever as a classical liberal "libertarian" with conservative leanings rather than Republican...
My GF and her entire family have been historically left of center & socialist leaning- Democrats - Lately though, she has been very disappointed with how the values of her party have been abandoned

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After 20 years on the internet, i finally got my own, unmodified name.

First mover advantage!

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