re: #54 Killgore Trout

He has made several efforts over the years to weed out the nuts. He did get them to dial back some of the gross demonetization of Jews and Israel. He also banned 9-11 truth and Ron Paul diaries. I’ll always applaud efforts of people to keep their own house clean but I really doubt he’s going to make much headway. The “reality based community” is a bit of a joke and today’s political culture is based on each side having their own separate versions of reality. That’s not going to change anytime soon and populist sites like Dkos are unlikely to become champions of reasonable political discourse.

One of the problems for Kos was that the pretty much handed the keys to his site over to the wingnut left at the end of 2009 (drove traffic up). A great many of the “pragmatic” liberals (myself among them) decided to pack our bags and get out of there. A few purges of others, including long-standing communities, occurred over the next couple of years. So any attempt on his part to “dial down the crazy” is a case of closing the barn door after the horse has gone.