No, many of us first found FR during a major news event like an election. But have more administrators on duty.
Yes and no. We are a community and we often fail to gently correct the newbie who means well. Rather than posting to an existing thread, they open a new thread to say something like..."The seals were padlocks not official UN seals" Interesting point, but it should have been added to a thread about the explosives.
I mean how many NEW treads on election polls can you have?
FR then get fractured with hundreds of new threads and FR morphs into a chat board rather than a comment board of published works.