Yeah, I probably did too; when I first joined, I didn't pay much attention to the personalities.
I had this rather vague notion that daveman, Dark Halo, and Demonic Underwear ran it, although I was aware some reticient guy actually owned it.
And there were these constant tussles with that bitch, Melissa or Marjorie or Melanie or Melinda or whatever her name was. I guess she was married to one of the powers there.
I came on board there during the Scamdal, and was rather more preoccupied with that, than with anything else.
For me, it seemed the place started going downhill, alas, after discussion of the Scamdal was forbidden, but I was around long enough to become good friends with many, including SarasotaRepub, who now owns the site.
I heartily recommend www.conservativeunderground.com to anyone and everyone, but I found my own cup of tea in a place where discussion of primitives is, uh, rather more spirited, and encouraged. One should try it out; one might like our old home.
The site was owned by Robcrook, and run by a guy named Gator. There were a handful of originals; Sarasotarepub, Saint Louis Woman, Gator, DarkHalo, Daveman, a guy named Coach, USA4me, Freeper, myself, and probably a few others that I can't remember, but not many more.
Originally mockery of DU was encouraged and spirited, but slowly grew too restricted; don't post pics and make fun of them, don't do this, that, etc. They would sign up and try to refute a lot of the threads where we called them out, and we had even more fun goofing on them one on one, until that got more restrictive, too.
You are referring to Melissa, who signed on as a conservative but was really a stealth centrist with what turned out to be leftist tendencies. She started a site called Neutralunderground, where both sides were encouraged to post, and I started posting there because I thought I could have free reign to bitchslap DUmmies again. It ended up more like NeuteredUnderground, when she established all these draconian rules against "personal attacks" and other silly garbage.
So I stopped posting altogether, anywhere. That was close to 5 or 6 years ago.
Probably more history than you wanted, but that's the whole story.