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In reply to the discussion: The chilling effect of misogynistic trolls [View all]Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Greatest page is mostly vanity posts, rehashes of the same old issues, duplicates, Tiger Beat items, cheers for republican policies like ACA, deficit reduction, charter schools, and so forth. As an example. BB's call-out, consisting of a list of symptoms of misogyny in the internet universe, got the anticipated hundreds of rec's, hundreds of replies, and lingered for days while contributing almost nothing of substance to the progress of man. Then of course Laelth's careful, polite response was locked as being a call-out.
The noise is so prevalent and loud that almost no signal gets through any more. I think the disarray of the site has tracked the disarray of the party apparatchik. As the DC Dems stray farther and farther from what made the party great in the 20th century, DU strays farther from its original usefulness as well.