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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Violet_Crumble
(36,003 posts)My favourite is when folk who've only been here since 2008-9 pine after the Good Old Days of DU when things were really progressive and it was all sunshine and happiness. They lament the loss of 'true progressives', even though they don't seem to be aware that people have always moved on or been tombstoned and more people join, which is the way most discussion forums work. And I hate to break the news to them that back when I joined DU in 2002, things were little different than they are now. Admin and the mods used to weed out the trolls, some surviving longer than others, and there were a few DUers who'd behave as though anyone they considered not as progressive as them was a RW troll.
Yeah, I went from having a fair bit of sympathy for Tavener just after he reappeared with his sock, to losing all sympathy when I read what he'd emailed to Skinner. That was really inexcusable...