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In reply to the discussion: Bernie's comments annoy me and you may not like Hillary, but we're being baited [View all]matt819
(10,749 posts)Here's a project for some clever DUers, or DU itself. Can you create an app or otherwise identify the anti-Bernie (or, for that matter, the anti-Hillary) posters as trolls - based on IP addresses, wording of posts, posting statistics, comparing wording to posts across the internet (using anti-plagiarism software, for example).
On the one hand, you don't want to inhibit free speech. On the other, we don't want to be set up for failure because trolls are dividing and conquering. Maybe it's time, for example, to relegate Bernie-bashing or Hillary-bashing posts to their own topic categories. As with 9-11 truther posts, this is a sure route to oblivion for these posts. Don't even include them on latest posts. If people want to seek out and participate in Dem-bashing, they have to make an effort and leave the rest of us out of it.