I really don’t recall many liberals in the early years; there were several libertarians, but they were radical conservatives, like Rob Noel for example, and Dausman, who I believe is still listed, but never shows up.
Most of the zots simply got to be too self-important, and tried to run the show, but there were some severe bad apples like Eschoir, a queer lawyer that sang in a choir, and had some kind of stalking fixation on Connie Hair.
When I joined in 2000, older sign ups helped newer sign ups and taught us the ropes. I learned a lot from some of them. It was painful to see opinions change and some needful zots.