06-01-2011, 05:30 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Our experience is that Simkin is always missing in action. Sometimes it was because of his wife's illness and later death but there are times when there is just no explanation that we can see. And no explanation was ever forth coming emails unanswered etc. It is shame because there are many good members there but it is run very badly. The moderation is often non existent, very bad and/or biased. Threads are disappeared regularly. Because there seemed no will or desire over there to make any positive changes that is why we started the DPF. That and that some of us were banned and weren't able to have a voice there. We want to create a place where serious debate and research can happen and be exchanged. Nor are we distracted by the lone nutters that are given free rein there and other places. We want to break out from the endless circle of known red herrings and move forward on the Kennedy assassination towards real out comes. And we look at the big picture outside of the Kennedy assassination in to other places of activity and events. We're pretty tight on the moderation compared to there too as we think it is important to keep it on the subject and not let it descend to the personalities involved. But it thrives over there. They love their pointless shit fights and I have no idea why Simkin permits it. The only thing I can surmise is the 'ratings' because it is a commercial advertising dependent site they need to get visitors and clicks and this sort of thing bring in visitors like gawkers at a car accident. It is all kind of sad when it could be a much better place and has potential but I think institutionally this is as good as it gets over there.
Well, over here at Deep Politics Forum, you can call forum members an "idiot son" and a "sap" ... especially if you are a moderator.