[Lnc-business] Recent LP Facebook post - Our Continued Social Media Blunders

[Scott L.]

Comments under the Rand Paul meme on the LP's Photo Album subpage,  on our
Facebook Page.

 

These were copied at 6:15pm PST, Sunday, March 1 - so all of them were made
after the Chair ordered the meme only be removed from the Timeline page:

 

 

 

 <https://www.facebook.com/JSH1284?fref=ufi> Steven Headley Uhhhh ... did
you really just indirectly bunch Ron Paul in with the Clintons and Bushes?

LoL .. get fucked, guys. "Libertarian Party" ... except for the little
problem of them not actually being libertarians.

 

Like <https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos_stream?ref=page_internal>
. Reply
<https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos_stream?ref=page_internal>  .
<https://www.facebook.com/browse/likes?id=10153107330187726> 1 .
<https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos/a.10150126121157726.302978.597
8057725/10153089125312726/?type=1&comment_id=10153107330187726&offset=0&tota
l_comments=2446> 18 minutes ago

 

 

 

 <https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006270406069&fref=ufi> Roger
Rogers When was paul ever a president? You are a very mean and terrible
person. I cant believe what a mean person you are

Like <https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos_stream?ref=page_internal>
. Reply
<https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos_stream?ref=page_internal>  .
<https://www.facebook.com/browse/likes?id=10153107324172726> 1 .
<https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos/a.10150126121157726.302978.597
8057725/10153089125312726/?type=1&comment_id=10153107324172726&offset=0&tota
l_comments=2446> 23 minutes ago

 

 

 

 <https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006724758461&fref=ufi> Murray
von Friedman "No more Pauls" Wut?
Yeah, because Ron Paul sucked soooooo bad for the liberty moobment! Lol

Like
<https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos/pb.5978057725.-2207520000.1425
261105./10153089125312726/?type=3&theater>  . Reply
<https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos/pb.5978057725.-2207520000.1425
261105./10153089125312726/?type=3&theater>  .
<https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos/a.10150126121157726.302978.597
8057725/10153089125312726/?type=1&comment_id=10153107283447726&offset=0&tota
l_comments=2446> 58 mins

 

 

 

 <https://www.facebook.com/Powa69Haus?fref=ufi> Steven Roberts They hid this
bullshit from their page also, not enough for me

Like
<https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos/pb.5978057725.-2207520000.1425
261105./10153089125312726/?type=3&theater>  . Reply
<https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos/pb.5978057725.-2207520000.1425
261105./10153089125312726/?type=3&theater>  .
<https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos/a.10150126121157726.302978.597
8057725/10153089125312726/?type=1&comment_id=10153107132602726&offset=0&tota
l_comments=2446> 2 hrs

 

 

 

 <https://www.facebook.com/william.pentney?fref=ufi> William Pentney Without
the Pauls the Libertarian party would still be as irevelevent as the
constitutional or green party

Like
<https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos/pb.5978057725.-2207520000.1425
261105./10153089125312726/?type=3&theater>  . Reply
<https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos/pb.5978057725.-2207520000.1425
261105./10153089125312726/?type=3&theater>  .
<https://www.facebook.com/browse/likes?id=10153107162312726> 1 .
<https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos/a.10150126121157726.302978.597
8057725/10153089125312726/?type=1&comment_id=10153107162312726&offset=0&tota
l_comments=2446> 2 hrs

 

 

 

 <https://www.facebook.com/sms.4280?fref=ufi> Shannon Stephens Rob Paul's
son is running under the Republican party. Which is actually a smart idea.
He's more likely to get elected that way. But he and his father have
libertarian ideologies. Who ever made this for this page is an idiot.

Like
<https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos/pb.5978057725.-2207520000.1425
261105./10153089125312726/?type=3&theater>  . Reply
<https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos/pb.5978057725.-2207520000.1425
261105./10153089125312726/?type=3&theater>  .
<https://www.facebook.com/libertarians/photos/a.10150126121157726.302978.597
8057725/10153089125312726/?type=1&comment_id=10153107014002726&offset=0&tota
l_comments=2446> 3 hrs

 

 

 

 

As I have mentioned before on this e-mail list, some very smart LP members
figured out why the LP was so ineffective way back in 1997 at the SLAM in
Dallas, TX:

 

 

"The group unanimously concluded that their best approximation of a root
cause is:  

 

       Many Libertarians value being right more than being effective."

 

 

 

La plus ca change, la plus c'est la meme chose.

 

    Scott Lieberman

 

 

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From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of
Daniel Wiener
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2015 2:42 PM
To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Recent LP Facebook post - Our Continued Social
Media Blunders

 

Following up on Nick's comment, I have been tracking the number of "shares"
of this meme since yesterday (see attached graph).  The question in my mind
was whether it was better from a public relations perspective to just let
the matter die out, or to entirely remove the image resulting in a "content
unavailable" Facebook error for those who had already shared it.  If I saw
that the controversy was continuing at a high level or even accelerating
("going viral") then I would absolutely recommend removing the image as the
least bad course of action.  However, as the graph shows, the average number
of "shares" (which are no longer coming from the LP's Facebook timeline) has
rapidly dwindled over the past day from an average of 45 an hour to an
average of just 3 an hour.  So unless something suddenly changes, I'm
inclined to let it die off naturally rather than risk re-igniting the
controversy by pulling the image.

 

Dan Wiener

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