A question about the New DU

[JackRiddler]

56. Swarm behavior has bludgeoned most of the interesting discussion to death.

You can see some of the victory march in this thread.

This place has largely succumbed to the minority who want a party-line parrot forum, and who seek to impose their extremely narrow idea of party line by way of verbal harrassment, calls to censorship and tombstoning. It seems the only acceptable function of this place to them is to act as a kind of adjunct to the DNC press release of the day, with an extreme hostility to contrary ideas. Either you repeat the approved talking points verbatim, or you are with the Republicans and "hate Obama." Although the default behavior is bully rhetoric and content-free ridicule, a few work hard to achieve amazing feats of sophistry in the assault on dissent. They are turning this place into a mostly empty echo chamber, yet the bizarre belief is also expressed that this highly alienating atmosphere magically "supports" Obama in the election.