Reply #44: A problem that occasionally crops up here is "dogpiling." Three or four posters decide that

[mistertrickster]

a post (and hence, poster) is worthy of ridicule and they just take great glee in doing just that.

Any protest is "whining." Any explanations citing the poster's democratic bona fides are just "yeah, that's what they all say."

It's unfair and unjustified. Angry people venting and taking things out on their fellow progressives is not a solution for anything.

*****

On edit--after closer reading, it looks like Rule change 3 will handle this problem quite nicely. Good plan.