[quidnunc]

I have tentatively reached several conclusions which I have enumerated in Reply #513.

I suspect the operative phrase here is cui bono?

[wireman]

Whose benefit?

I suppose the folks that operate the site (though I can't see how or why).

Could it be that success has gone to their heads and they feel as if they only need to appeal to the unappeasable zealots - The farthest right wing?

There have always been spirited arguments here. It's the new coarseness that I find most disturbing.