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In reply to the discussion: If you disagree with someone, just claim she/he is a sockpuppet spreading propaganda [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Those old "mod" days, when bad behavior was covered up, are gone. The new DU is a bit uglier, harsher, and meaner in some regards, but it is also more honest. That's the trade-off.
This isn't theoretical stuff, this is stuff that the average poster has a right to know.
If some of the more notorious posters come back as zombies, or have sockpuppets that are active while they, too, are posting as themselves, then DUers who don't pull that kind of childish shit should be informed. It's the decent thing to do.
Skinner's tolerance is higher than most of ours, I think, but even he gets sick of the shit:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=217293&sub=trans
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=306286&sub=trans
I think knowledge is power. It's not a question of "zombie hunting," it's calling out people who are mocking others for having a (gasp) Democratic perspective, and accusing those same others--without any damned evidence-- of doing the same damn thing they've been doing. There's a distinction, and a real difference.
I have to agree with Sid's POV here.