That's hilarious! I wasn't so lucky.
When Howard Dean just showed up on the scene, I decided to go do a search on any local newspaper or magazine stories that were done on him to shed some light on the way he was as a high school and college student, because I knew little if nothing about him.
Well, the story I found and posted was not unkind to Dean, suggesting that Dean, when a freashman in college, insisted on a black room mate back in the days when that kind of offering was considered "open-minded". It was also pointed out that he was a somewhat combative but fun-loving guy in college, staying up after the parties with the few remaining guys, swapping stories and philosophy of life ideas, and finishing off the keg! The thing I found the most positive (in my mind) was that in intra-fraternity touch football games, Dean, even though he is somewhat small, insisted on playing offensive line, doing the grunt work, thus getting his *ss run over a lot. So, the entire story was not critical of Dean at all, in fact he looked good.
Anyhow, after I posted it, and since I was relatively new, there were the usual web-nazis accusing me of being a "troll" and a "disruptor" merely because the story said some positive things about Dean. No matter how much I tried to convince these web sheriffs, they would not believe that I wasn't from "the other side".
In a way it is funny, but in another way it reflects poorly on FR, which I consider the best site of its kind in the world!
Its all the fault of Ash and
Ash Alert
Ash was a poster who kept logging on again and again under some similar name as Ash or variations. It became great sport discovering who he was and being the first to out him. Both < /sarcasm > and outing Ash was done as fun, not serious. The other major shift came when quite a few freepers fell for a self proclaimed service man who called him self "Deep in the Hurtgeon forest. or something. Many fell for his line and were deeply hurt.
Its too bad, we need more humor. Liberals hate humor.