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In reply to the discussion: Has the banning of dkf made you more reluctant to criticize certain things on DU? [View all]Igel
(35,304 posts)Stopped that with all the judgmentalism and "sockpuppet" let's-pile-on-people and accuse-them-of-all-sorts-of-nonsense attitudes over the summer.
Can't cure hate and narrow mindedness. But when it's fostered, then you just have to say, "Eh, it's pretty much an irrelevant Internet discussion board."
The real shift happened when the Breaking News forum started to be something with a full-screen turnover every 18-24 hours--there's a lot less news in 2013 than in 2008, it would seem--and the "General Discussion" board started to resemble the lounge with a little content, or perhaps that should be "with little content."
Some of the forums are great. At least the atheist or anti-religion screeds in the Religion forum have mostly ceased, albeit at the expense of any actual discussion since the "wrong sort" no longer post there. Rather like having a Latino forum where only Latinos from some countries can post (Ecuador, perhaps) but Mexican-Americans can't because they don't have the right perspective.
Mundi gloria transit sic.