Thanks for this ping. Lately I've been seeing more and more "newbies" (mostly newbies) appearing at first to have a lot of conservative values--and then saying or doing things that make the whole forum look bad. There was a phoney UN scandal "article" (unsourced) recently, just for instance (and it never was sourced either).
The "rumors" (as mentioned in a recent WaPo story) were just part of the problem--things are said on here that you just have KNOW are being quoted elsewhere--that it reaches the network news is not good.
I'm a newbie.. but very conservative;
Wont tell on anyone, honest.