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According to Democratic Underground, as of June 2008, over 122,000 moonbats have been registered and over 38 million messages have been deleted.
Oh my.Fat Che better get on that right away; that wikipedia description wasn't written by a primitive.
The website is owned by Democratic Underground, LLC (a limited liability company), and run by David Allen, who posts under the screen name "$kimmer"[4] while on the boards and handles most of the issues relating to the forums. The other two administrators, "EarlG" (of Washington, D.C.) and "elad" (of Portland, Oregon), handle the articles and technical issues, respectively.
That can not last long. It needs posted at the DUmp to get them fired up.
Moderation at Democratic Underground is handled much differently than it is atFree Republic. There are rules for posting, and conventions, but they are not strict rules.Language varies from the highly formal to the extremely vulgar, and the only languageviolations that result in banishment (“tombstoning†in DU parlance) are racist language,sexist language or language that denigrates another participant. That is, the notion ofcivility one finds at DU is not based on the language itself, but to whom it is directed andfor what purpose. Aside from the exclusion of overtly right-wing viewpoints, the site is tolerant of a wide range of attitudes within the larger category of “progressive.â€
I went to the wiki link and found all the aforementioned stuff cleaned up. But at the very bottom of the page, a link to someone's doctoral dissertation caught my attention. This has probably been discussed here before, but some broad did her paper on DU vs. FR, examining both as "communities".Methinks I know where her allegiance lies after reading this tiny exerpt:http://www.toofunproductions.com/CastilloDiss.pdf
Traves, I couldn't find it.
I removed the Activist Corps section.. that only lasted a couple of months, and has not been active since 2005, not encyclopedic at all.