The vast majority of DU supports Snowden's and Greenwald's actions

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51. Unfortunately, on DU we mistake number of posts with member population

I know that everyone understands the difference, but I think the observation is still valid.
There is a group who have enormous amounts of free(?) time to boost their posting numbers. In the isolation of the typical computer user, these examples of weak principle and sloppy rhetoric appear to represent a larger crowd than is actual for the simple reason that they somehow have the ability to post something along the lines of 30 messages a day, 24-7, including holidays for the past decade or longer.
We make the mistake of offering respect for high posting numbers. What do you think of people who spend their days on Facebook and other social media, whittling away their 22,000 days of existence "liking" and posting their endless streams of pap? I feel mostly pity.
The same is true for our super-duper posters.
Sure, people who participate more in this community will have a greater number of posts, and that is usually a great way to evaluate the robust nature of an online community, or any other community for that matter. However, I believe that super-high posting numbers are a symptom of an actual emotional/behavior problem such as codependency.
Consider a church community. A healthy church community has people participating and attending services regularly. Members of the church gain social status by committing time to doing church stuff. But what of the person who attends service every day and all day, obsessively spouts dogma at the slightest prompt, and shrilly attacks anyone who questions church teachings?
I certainly wouldn't consider that person a reliable source for anything.
There would be similar cognates for any community, from a college fraternity to the chess club to the Little League Baseball Boosters.
The obsessive posting from this oddly isolated group on DU is something like addiction, but it is also about coveting a perception of respect from a community because of a lack of self esteem within their own psyche.
Either that or they are just sock puppets intent on spreading discord, manipulating propaganda messages and promoting the MIC.