Reply #30: The problem with your dream is the term bona fide participants...

[Melissa G]

Pretty much anyone can be a member here as long as they say they are a Dem and even some independents and greens also seem to make there way in. As long as you are obeying the rules you get to hang here.
Most of us are anonymous. We are just the sum of our words on the screen. If the sum of the words on the screen are comforting to folks' world view they trust you faster. Also if you deliver for the group, information, good feelings or valuable insights they also appreciate your merits faster.

If one come in giving folks who have no knowledge of you
a lot of lectures,(even if you they they are very deserving of them)as well as discordant information with the dominant world view. Well... it may take them a little while to warm up to you.