I am certainly no expert on this site, but it seems there have been an inordinate number of people who have just joined. Their m.o. is usually to post an article and in their best "civil" tone begin bashing the President. (Usually it isn't even the administration, they go directly for the President.) If I were a lib/dem, it would appear to me that this is the best way to participate with FR and not be banned or reprimanded. After all, it simply appears to be simple dissenting discourse. However, I'm not convinced that it isn't a concerted attempt to divide and conquer. Sadly, there is probably nothing one can do with these types.
Notwithstanding the above, you and your aides have been quite successful in eliminating many of the more juvenile and harrassing one-day disruptors. Whatever you are doing on that count, it is working and is much appreciated. I'm just saying that I think some of those "disruptors" have learned how to manipulate the system as per above.
"If I were a lib/dem, it would appear to me that this is the best way to participate with FR and not be banned or reprimanded. After all, it simply appears to be simple dissenting discourse. However, I'm not convinced that it isn't a concerted attempt to divide and conquer." I think there is no question about that. I have seen some of the discussion at the DU. They are obsessed with this site. While we have the occasional regular thread about them, I have yet to visit the DU without seeing at least one and usualy more than one thread with FReeper in the title, and even when their threads don't use FR in the title there seldom appears to be a thread over there on which this site and us don't come up frequently. In fact, I'm quite sure if they get wind of this thread we'll probably be seeing a new flurry of "activity" from lefty land.