Reply #222: What seabeyond says above, and also: is that other forum primarily political?

[muriel_volestrangler]

As seabeyond says, DU may be a target - and I would say that's because it's political and partisan. There are plenty of right-wingers who would love to disrupt a left wing site until it becomes unusable. It's already big enough, and well known enough, to attract plenty of trolls. And less moderation would certainly show up in the area of LGBT - the RW has loads of bigots who want to hurt LGBT people, as well as stop any attempt at discussion or organising.

I think a lot of the 'hard feelings' that Skinner refers to in the OP can be summarised as: many LGBT members see a few DUers as homophobes, and regard their posts on LGBT topics as trolling, and alert on them. The mods have sometimes not agreed, and let the posts stand; a few members have then accused the DUers in public of trolling and attacked them, and the mods have then deleted those attacks. If this continues long enough, the LGBT members run the risk of being banned for consistent personal attacks.

The problem is that the mods and some LGBT members can disagree on what is homophobic or trolling.