[khnyny]

Please don’t be so naive. No offense, not just you, but anyone else. By accident I was looking up something re FR on the web the other day, and ran across a nice post from someone on DU who was crowing about how they had been posting on FR for a year without being detected. Most people know that there are people on conservative web sites trying to undermine the dialog.

[La Enchiladita]

Most people know that there are people on conservative web sites trying to undermine the dialog.

A more insidious problem, IMO, has been the dilution of dialog over the past few months, with the emergence of sleaze/"entertainment" threads that get posts up in the 10s of thousands. Examples are the dead blonde and other celeb gossip; today it's Keith Richards. This trash is readily available in so many other venues, but it's emerging as almost one-third of the content on the Latest Posts page at any given time.

Maybe it's just me, but I find this depressing and discouraging.