The ping to Jim was to share a thought regarding the libertarian stealth work here at FR which may be contributing much to the divisive nature of these Rudy threads. Don't get so paranoid, you and I are not that important.Not paranoid, realistic. I know that usually when folks do that, its to alert Jim that someone needs to be considered for banning.
From the threads I've seen, the divisiveness is being driven by the hard right. I know most of those posters.
"I know that usually when folks do that (
ping Jim to a post), its to alert Jim that someone needs to be considered for banning." Well, I don't do it for that reason since I would just hit the abuse button and state my feelings directly to the mod ... and have done so in the past. I don't know how many posts are made to FR each 24 hour period, but I would guarantee that Jim cannot read them all, so if there is a debate issue for his consideration I ping him.
I don't do it often, but I will ping him (and am pinging him with this post also because he is mentioned in the post) on a thread where his integrity has been impugned and a continuing debate over the rightness or wrongness of voting to nominate a candidate for whom I agree with him would be disasterous for conservatism.