FR has always had surges in membership during times of crisis. Lot’s of us signed up during the 2000 recount fiasco, more around 9-11 and during the 2004 election/ Rathergate stuff.
I do think there are more attempts at troll inflitration these days. All the more reason to appreciate the job the mods do.
Trusting from personal experience, oh yeah there are more troll infiltrations - especially around the college class seasonal schedule, right when the Obamabots are going back to school.
In January and March, we had a lot of trolls on the wire, and we're getting one again now - but not nearly as bad as March was.
Agreed.