You know what I’ve noticed about LGF? It’s sometimes kind of like it’s two sites instead of one. One site is for people who post comments in the thread and talk to each other, like I’m doing now. The other site is just for people to post spinoff links, often pimping their own blogs, and for other people who just log in and ding the spinoff links up or down.

The “comments area” here has been exhibiting a strong community pressure toward calmness, rationality, and moderation, which I like. But the “spinoff links site” really tends to turn into a forum for extremist right-wing conspiracy theories, especially late at night. It’s really like a different place. I remember sometime in 2009, Ron Paul’s website actually made it to the number-one rated spinoff link on LGF, for at least a few hours.