I’ve not been around FR for a while.
After having been back a bit for a few days, I’m guessing negative selection is occurring. If you’re a Cruz voter, why would you hang out here with so much ridiculous nonsense that gets posted?
You want to take a shot at Cruz’s record? Take one.
But well over half the criticisms of him are simply emotional or ad hominem.
And I’m sure it’s the same going the other way. This is a nonsensical primary. It’s not based in policy or positions. And it’s certainly not based in truth.
Yeah, ridiculous is a good word.
I mainly lurk on threads that I follow regularly, but FR was getting so loaded up with trolls (names I hadn’t seen before doing multiple posts with no obvious purpose but to disrupt), I found myself spending so much time scrolling through the debris field I decided to just go troll hunting and file abuse on the bad actors.
Didn’t keep score, but if I had to typify the ones I reported, I’d say they were mainly Establishment types, most of ‘em working off a script (sometimes two or three on the same thread with the same script, which I found amusing) and so predictable in their schedules I just called ‘em Trolls For Hire and accused at least one of getting paid by piecework.
Cruz fans catching flak around here is regrettable, but I’d say those TFH’s are mostly at fault for their success in knocking the usual standards in the crapper. In defense of the Trump folks getting scratchy, I’d note that if you spend enough time getting called names, there’s a point where you just decide you may as well act the part.
...I know that I’ve started to post things, then got to “review” and just dumped ‘em. Guess we all need to back off.
I think the populace gleans a lot more truth than folks suspect.