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[Hassin Bin Sober]

55. Be careful what you wish for.

Some of the biggest proponents of doing away with hosting were up to their eyeballs with the Locozollo types shutting down ANY criticism of The President of being off topic "on a Democratic board". And that included the President's position pre-marriage equality.

Any discussion of the usage of "poutrage" and "pony" was deemed meta and shut down. So much so that Skinner had to step in and say knock it off.

Lozocollo was banned for his super partisan shenanigans. So was grahm4anything. We just had another host thrown out of hosting for the same shenanigans - I won't mention his name because he is still technically a member. Though he hasn't posted since he was tossed. My suspicion is he moved on to his next zombie/sock... Every one of those disruptors had the same MO. - they shut down or tried to shut down ANY discussion critical of The President or the party. They made threats of retaliatory locks, horse traded via threat to leave truly disruptive posts if they didn't get their way and locked, unilaterally, posts when they couldn't get consensus. And some of the more vocal in these threads were right there skating around the edges having a laugh encouraging the disruptors.

If you hold a minority opinion on DU you may not like your "controversial" opinion getting shut down by the majority.

I have been in favor of leaving SOP alerts to the jury since, well, since I became a host and saw what's going on in there.. As long as it is the whole pool of eligible juries. If left up to the same 'pro lock' duers that have been camping out in hosts since du3 went live, I guarantee we won't be happy.