“Some of us happened to know and respect those people.”
I know what you’re saying. It’s a shame some are gone. But they just didn’t want to be here.
With all due respect banning 85 long time posters is an exercise in absolute idiocy.
Rudy Ghouliani completely sucks things that I'm not even going to take the time to mention, but this kind of purge (make no mistake it is one) is the kind of thing that takes salon.com from being a big house of democrats to some dinky little podunk nowhere-ville website in the internet.
Everyone kiss and make up now that the bad people are gone? This is like something out of Nazi Germany or fascist Italy .... this is a damned nightmare of PR for FR. How long until this gets chucked down the memory hole?
How many of these people got banned just because they pi$$ed off a moderator? Someone frakking explain this crap... otherwise ...
If this be an opus ... make the most of it !!!