[tanknetter]

Primitive? Hmph! So even a caveman could figure it out, I suppose?

The "primitive" (I would use the term "user-friendly") architecture gives FR a great advantage over the blogs. It allows the membership here to be MUCH more interactive and collaborative than elsewhere - creating a "sum is greater than the parts of the whole" situation.

The problem with blogs is that they tend to be centered on either the one person (kos) or the select few people (mydd) who are actually posting material/articles, and there generally isn't a lot of interaction between those who post responses.

kos, etc are more like the kids on campus that would stand up on soapboxes reading political statements and manifesto to a small crowd. FR is like a bunch of people sitting around a table working to hash something out. The result is that FR can produce better and faster analyses than kos could ever hope to.

[lentulusgracchus]

kos, etc are more like the kids on campus that would stand up on soapboxes reading political statements and manifesto to a small crowd.

Isn't that the classic Leftist political architecture? Doubleplusgood duckspeakers declaiming to the mobiliz(ed/ing) masses?

And a tiny, invisible Politburo hashing out content in a locked room?