[Ratatoskr]

Mob rule, which would allow the mob to render your posts invisible on normal read settings.

Peer review. The default read settings can be changed in an instant by anyone capable of eating with utensils. Jeez, don't any of you hang out at Slashdot?

As for the attitudes toward the Middle East——well, website attitudes often shift with time. Why, I remember when Free Republic was virulently anti George Bush.

Doesn't anyone else?

[Cachelot]

Peer review. The default read settings can be changed in an instant by anyone capable of eating with utensils.

Rotfl. Yep, so they can. Are you actually saying that this is the important thing about a mechanism such as that, and that the peer pressure part of it plays no role? Are you actually tellimg me that you don't understand the very first basics of group behavious?

Or are you just trying to pull my leg with your utensils?

[carenot]

. Why, I remember when Free Republic was virulently anti George Bush.

Doesn't anyone else?

I wasn't here then. But I love reading the old stuff.

So, yes, I remember it.