>I would love to be made a moderator over there, but it
>would require several months wroth of feigning lunacy in
>order to have two or three days of destructive fun, and
>I'm just not up to it.
Is it strictly considered trolling to go there and challenge their worldview with rational, internally and externally consistent arguments?
Or would challenging the consensus as an open conservative just get you banned? Has anyone tried this?
Not only does it get you immediately banned, but they go back and erase any posts you made previously. You beome an un-person.
Oh definitely yes. You can't color too far outside the lines at DU.
One long time poster over there started a thread to the effect that "Bush is evil, corrupt and hateful, but he's not REALLY equivalent to Hitler" - and the responses were about 95% to the effect that yes, he is. One had the feeling that only the original poster's longevity kept him from being banned.
I still have a userid over there - tried to build my post count by posting to the non-political forums. But it's another sign of the shaky mental health at DU that there are so few non-political discussions. The poor things seem to have no interests whatsoever in life other than ideology and political power.
Don't forget though that signing up on FR, and throwing up a first post supporting a liberal position will get you a pretty fast zot.