I don't think this will happen. There are more and more posters on FR who act like young thugs thinking they are tough because they use crude language and call people names. It's almost a moderate, right wing version of the "Gangsta" culture. The reputation of FR was seriously hurt tonight. I don't know if BO really found all of the trash he said he found on FR just today, I hope not.
I don't know what the solution is, I'm sure JR can't afford full time paid moderators, but the discourse does seem to be deteriorating. There are many females I know that I would not recommend get on FR because of the crudity of many posters. This is not right.
I'm willing to take any course that will get us back to a forum about ideas, not the emotional, name calling, crudities that have become common on many threads.
Since the spring cleaning effort at the end of April, the discourse on FR has improved, imo.
It’s been a downhill slide for a long time now. The only way anything in this world can change is if people accept the fact that change is needed. This sled is either going to burn out its runners or it’s going to crash into the ground.
“There are more and more posters on FR who act like young thugs thinking they are tough because they use crude language and call people names.”
They are everywhere. I was reading at imwithfred yesterday and flagged two very vulgar posts.