DU3, as expected, isn't just hostile toward atheists.

[LeftishBrit]

37. I do hope you change your mind and decide to stay

I think DU3 is better in some ways than DU2. I think it's perhaps not as good at dealing with nasty *posts*, but it's better at dealing with nasty *people*. For instance, in DU2, there were several people who blatantly preferred Ron Paul to certain Democrats, and argued for libertarian principles. Now, I think such people are generally shown the door quite quickly. And there are two people who stayed on DU forever despite being really right-wing in various ways. One (the only person over whom I ever had an individual post deleted), who specialized in screaming that he had NO SYMPATHY for various people caught up in misfortune, from the Japanese who were bombed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to ordinary pensioners who might suffer losses because of BP's failures (I entirely agree that such pensioners can't be used as human shields in order to avoid paying compensation to its victims; what upset me was the argument that it was the pensioners' fault for not choosing their jobs on the basis of studying how and where the occupational pension funds were being invested). And another who was very nationalistic and at times blatantly antisemitic and even defended Oswald Moseley to some degree! Both have now been MIRTEed, and I think it would have taken forever before they were TS'd under the old system.

At any rate, I think there was at least as much incivility in the past. And the worst anti-atheist post I've seen here - one that said that atheists would go to hell and were a greater danger to America than any of its enemies - was some time ago in DU2.

Anyway, I wish you would stay.