A call to holders of traditional Democratic ideals.

[Festivito]

78. Well said. I've seen posters leave, return and go away completely for ten years.

The new transparency is helping. But, the bloat of third and fifth grade posts makes DU hard for me to read -- I don't have time to wade.

Do others notice when posting some different take on a thread, other near churlish posters come and rehash previously made arguments behind it. I now tend to find the real comments among those non-response laden, single posts, hidden near the top of a small squall of other single posts.

The problem is that they sometimes post good articles (never great ones), so the ignore feature is too black and white. I asked if we could buy a coloring system so we could put them in color of our own choice. That way I could have some posts show in true blue and others in cautious yellow and some in stand-back red.

Alas, too much to ask just yet.

...wading through the slightly, but nicely improved slog.
Freedom sure ain't free of charge, it's hard, rewarding, work.