It's not irrelevant to point out buckscountybeacon is a propaganda spam site deceptively posing as a regular pre-existing local newspaper. That's what this conversation is about. The one you logged into reddit to partake in.

What's irrelevant is you randomly dragging Trump into the conversation. But like I said, it's not exactly intelligent people behind this.

Are you illiterate?

/u/yeag86 held Trump's website up as an example, not me. As consistent with my other interactions all these people chiming in deep in this thread to make their first reddit comments of the day to defend this scam site seem to be complete morons.

Nobody is talking about Trump, we're talking about this barely functional scam website built by some tech illiterate moron with a WYSIWYG.

The average person off the street could assemble a better functioning site. You guys can't even figure out why you're not being listed in the SERPs.

The quality of the site is indicative of it being a scam website, posing as an established local news site.

Wtf are you talking about?

Okay, what?

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/ ?

This is a professionally built website, regardless of what your politics are.

What point are you trying to make here?

Not only is OP's scam site not professionally built, suggesting this isn't a legitimate organization, much less an established local news journal (which it's not, this is a scam site made to look like local news), this isn't even built by a competent hobbyist or a tech-savvy person who isn't a developer.

At least try to argue over the line of where something becomes deceptive. The structure of this website is objectively bad. There's not even an argument to be made against that.

Not only is the site scammy and dishonest, the people suspiciously coming out of the woodworks to make their first reddit comment of the day in defense of this site, don't seem remotely intelligent.

What website are you talking about?

And no, this site is absolute trash in a lot more ways than one. As far as the search results go, it's not that it's not "in the top results", it's that it's so far back it barely gets indexed at all. Three pages back is deep, and it's probably more than that, I just only bothered to check back three pages.

But the joke that it is on a technical competence level isn't the point. The point is that it's a malicious propaganda site aimed at deceiving viewers into thinking it's an established local news source for Bucks county.

When I keep getting responses denying it, yes. Especially from OP who began copy and pasting the same responses to me.

It's a deceptive and poorly made propaganda site dressed up like something its not, and one of the people involved is filling this thread with lies claiming it's an established local news source.

Why are you so offended someone pointed that out? What purpose does your comment serve except to whine that somebody pointed out how gross and misleading this junk site is?

Prior to their discussion with me, they almost exclusively post articles from a low quality site built with a WYSIWYG editor that doesn't even make it into the top few pages of google's search results for "local news bucks county pa", despite being dressed up and named as though it's some established local news source. From what I peaked around at, it's 98% hyper partisan political articles, all of which load incredibly slowly, often with broken images, and the first random article I clicked on turned out to be republished content from elsewhere.

Essentially it's a poorly built partisan junk site, which didn't exist until this election cycle, masquerading as an established regular local news site.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Pennsylvania/comments/y3zcdf/stop_the_corruption_no_more_congresspeople/isf7nps/?context=3

How about you link the context of you repeatedly suggesting that I'm some back woods redneck because I disagreed with you?

Nobody called you poor, let alone "shit on you" for it.

I pointed out that I'm not the straw-man caricature you were fantasizing I was.

When have I ever done that?

That's not at all something I'd do. At least claim that I'm some right winger like the rest of the slanderers.

It's not a news site, buckscountybeacon is a propaganda spam site dressed up as a local news site, built with a WYSIWYG plug-in for wordpress.

Wordpress is simple enough, and a fine CMS for something like this. You don't need a WYSIWYG editor on top of that.

Nothing about this site is authentic. It's literal spam.

It's deceptive as hell. It's dressed and named as if it's an established local news source. You have to scroll to the very bottom of the page and click the about us to see any mention of being openly progressive.

That is deception. The same as homeopathic products being packaged as medicine and mixed in with it on the shelves.

Furthermore, nothing about the site or your horrible attempts at defending it demonstrate competence at any level.

> The Elementor website builder allows WordPress users to create and edit websites by employing the drag and drop technique

It's built with a WYSIWYG editor ffs, lol.

Yeah, the technical quality is an aside from the politics of all this, but it's pretty bad, and doesn't exactly shout authentic local news.

edit: "The Elementor website builder allows WordPress users to create and edit websites by employing the drag and drop technique"

It's built with a WYSIWYG plugin for wordpress lol

"Original reporting"

Literally the first random article I clicked on was republished content from elsewhere.

It's a blatantly deceptive propaganda site dressed and named as if it's an established local news site. Same as homeopathic medicine being dressed up as medicine and placed next to the real stuff on the shelves.

This isn't right wing trolling, it's pointing out gross and deceptive practices. And claiming that I'm a right wing troll is all you can do at this point, because the site is blatantly deceptive and there's no way of defending it when called out.

You don't even make it into the first three pages of google for "local news bucks county pa", and the site was created this election cycle.

It's a deceptive propaganda site for which your reddit account exists to spam.

Not what was said.

Again, you think being openly deceptive now helps you defend the claim that you aren't with your spam site?

Now you're just repeating the same irrelevant responses. And you're supposed to be claiming you aren't deceptive?

> The Beacon is fed through Google News

This has literally nothing to do with the statement that it does not get listed in the top three pages of google's SERPs for the query "local news bucks county pa". This is a statement of fact and highlights incompetence. Even being under a year old, you should be able to make it in there, but there are good reasons (which I won't state) you're not being listed.

But on this one, I genuinely think it's a coin-toss whether your misunderstanding here is incompetence vs deception.

> when your homepage barely works.

That's what was said. Not "the site doesn't work".

You're so unaware of yourself you try to pull deception in the conversation where you're supposed to be claiming you're not deceptive.

> doesn't consistently load images

That's what was said. And you're using scroll-jacking on your homepage. Of course you don't know what that means because you can't build a decent functional site, much less are you a journalist as opposed to someone spamming propaganda from a deceptive site thrown together less than a year ago.

This is a political spam site dressed as local news that doesn't even appear in the top three pages of google's results for "local news bucks county pa".

> You are not even good at trolling.

Because I'm not trolling, I'm pointing out the blatant deception of this site. And you have no business criticizing anyone's competence when your homepage barely works.

The website doesn't consistently load images and has text that vibrates all over and hijacks scrolling. It barely works.

Being a brand new site from this election cycle, I don't blame you that it isn't the top result, or even in the top handful of results. But your site doesn't even make it into the top three pages.

This is not "deceptive right wing trolling" this is calling out your deceptive practices.

Why would it be from the 1950's? It could be from the 90's, or the 2010's, or the 2000's.

Nope. It's from this election cycle, and only features political propaganda, despite being dressed up and named as if it's a local news source.

It barely even has a functional homepage. Doesn't even make it into the top three pages of google for "local news bucks county pa". Probably for specific reasons I don't even want to state because it would help them fix it.

This is to local news what homepathic products are to medicine. It's deceptively packaged and delivered in the same way.

No, you'd have to scroll to the bottom of the page and click the about us to see the site declaring that it's a progressive propaganda source and not actual local news.

The rest of the site is dressed up and named so as to suggest that it's local news. Same way homeopathic products are boxed like medicine and placed next it on the shelves.

It's not an established news source. It barely even has a functional home page.

I click on one other article and random and it happens to be scraped from other sources, the site's entirely political except for one article that I saw.

It doesn't even reach the top three search engine results pages on google for "local news bucks county pa". I'm not criticizing it for not making the top three results... It doesn't even appear on the top three PAGES.

Yet, it's dressed up as a standard local news journal, when it's not. That's deceptive. It's exactly how homeopathic medicine is sold.

It's not. But that's not what you did. You dressed it up as a typical non-partisan local news source, and placed any mention of "progressive" in your about page.

90% of your content is hyper left political, yet you've dressed it up like generic local news.

As I've said, homepathic medicine places warnings in the fine print too. It doesn't make it any less of a scam when it's dressed like medicine and placed next to the real stuff.

And I'm in no way trolling. I'm pointing out a gross and deceptive practice, which is you trying to deceive people for political aims.

Homeopathic medicine has its warnings in the fine print as well.

This is spam relying on deceiving users into believing it's an established local news source. You didn't name this junk site Bucks County Progressive, you deliberately named it to appear like a general local news site.

It's not trolling it's pointing out your gross deception.

Yes, human beings made this site. I didn't suggest aliens or raccons did. That doesn't make it an established local news source.

This is the political "news" version of homeopathic medicine. Yes, there are warnings in the fine print that it's homeopathic medicine. It's still deceptive to package it as actual medicine and place it on the shelves next to the advil and cough syrup.