So what? I can see your point on the "anti-Jew" posters,as these people seem to pretty much be "one-note Nellies",and any thread they start is a automatic waste of time. As for the "anti-Israel" posters,what's wrong with that? This is a web site primarily used by Americans to promote America and American ideals. Sometimes these may be the same as Israel ideals,but not always.
If anybody here are a "Israeli-Firsters" instead of "American-Firsters",maybe they should start their own site or find a site without so many Americans posting on it? Israel may be our ally sometimes,but we ain't joined at the hip.
Which is exactly why I never joined. I don't think my nerves could handle jumping rebutting any more hate propaganda filled discussions than I already do...I know that forums like Liberty are exactly where defense is needed, and I feel guilty about not fighting the good fight there....but I have all the hate and propaganda-fighting I can handle on Arab forums.
They also suffer from a technical problem - one they share with DU - that ensures they could never become a serious threat to FR even if they did start getting any posters. That problem is that their software generates web pages by creating ever-more-nested <TABLE>s for every new comment posted to a thread. This isn't a big deal for a thread that has four or five comments on it, but if it becomes popular and starts getting dozens of responses, so many tables end up getting created that it overloads most web browsers except on the most state-of-the-art, 2-GHz Pentium 4s. I open a long thread on DU and it sometimes takes as long as EIGHT MINUTES before the browser finishes rendering the page. Such "features" guarantee their forums will never have heavy participation levels, no matter what. Plenty of usability studies have shown that the average user will not wait more than seven seconds for at least some readable material to show up on-screen. If it doesn't, they move on to another site.
Making FR's threads table-free is probably the single smartest move JohnRob ever made when it comes to contributing to the success of FR. (Second was cutting threads into 50-post chunks for similar browser-overload reasons.)