2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Goodbye DU [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)I understand the hopeful responses about how the board always recovers from the primary battles, but I'm skeptical. I was here through the 2007-08 campaign. There was division then, but DU didn't see the overall deterioration that it has this time.
Some of the other responses to you in this thread reinforce my pessimism.
Unlike many DUers who voted for Bernie, I'm sticking around, at least for now, but I'm already spending less time here than I used to. I'm not mentioning that as any kind of threat. Obviously, some of the people posting in this thread are openly jubilant about having more ideological homogeneity on the board. The admins, while welcoming the consequent diminution of rancor, won't be happy if another consequence is a loss of traffic.