"The article is obviousely flawed . . ."
Yeah, but he has this one dead nuts right:
"More often, it's a kind of pantomime, where the name of the game is to cheer the good guy and boo the bad guy every time he creeps on stage."
It seems to depend on the time of day/week and the thread topic.
Then there are freepers who apparently call on other freepers to bully a dissenter into submission......