No indictment, but how do Democrats deal with this:

[Jim Lane]

256. Your view is jaundiced.

The JPR "rule" you cite was indeed enunciated -- evidently in a fit of pique, because I've never seen it applied once, and I've seen numerous posts that would violate it.

The bitterness of the nomination fight prompted people from both camps to desert DU, or at least to spend some time elsewhere. The DU admins themselves set up a separate pro-Clinton board. That's even aside from a certain hate-filled cesspool site where Clinton supporters whooped it up about successful alert stalking of Sanders supporters. Unsurprisingly, Sanders supporters felt the same need for a place where they wouldn't have to put up with brickbats from across the fence. The DU admins inadvertently encouraged that tendency with an amnesty that was perceived, rightly or wrongly, as welcoming back some of the worst offenders on the Clinton side, despite numerous well-deserved hides, while Sanders supporters like Manny and WillyT remained exiled.

I appreciate your recognition that DU is now a constricted forum. Whatever one says about the character of the discussions here before June 20, it's clear that now there's not much allowable disagreement. As a result, many longtime DUers with high post counts are now posting primarily or exclusively on JPR. That's a loss to DU. And, yes, many people have stayed here, never posting on JPR, and their absence from JPR means that that site, also, is not as good as DU used to be.