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To: Dale Baker who wrote (18643)	5/15/2006 5:35:35 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541851

Last comment on bookmarks - most of the newer threads (post-SI reactivation in fall 2004) have been unable to garner more than a few dozen bookmarks. That suggests that the hardcore partisan cliques enjoy staking out their own little corners of the playground and posting furiously among themselves, but the content in the threads isn't drawing a wider audience. I don't know if it is a coincidence or a pattern that more threads on the bottom lean to the right - maybe they just like to start more threads. Much like what I think is going on in the US electorate. The hardcore partisans keep on banging their drums, but fewer and fewer voters are remotely interested. Bush Admin Media Manip. - 51 Proof That John Kerry - 50 Did Slick Boink - 46 Foreign Policy Discussion - 26 Free America - 42 Bush 43 - 36 I Will Continue to Continue - 36 To Be A Liberal - 34 Proof that Hillary - 24 Leftwing Agenda to Destroy - 24 Illegal Immigration - 24 Westi's Wild Ride - 18 John Kerry Crimes - 17

To: Dale Baker who wrote (18643)	5/15/2006 10:05:02 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541851

The PGWB thread goes back to 1999 so who knows how many of its current bookmarks are active members. PFP and FADG also go back beyond 2004. Most of the over-the-median threads fall in that category. It's a shame that the software can't capture the fact that the old FADG thread is a completely different creature from the present one. Once Ken (Faultline) was unable to continue active moderation, the present state was pretty obvious. As we have remarked before, several of us here are refugees from the finer moments of Ken's work. I suspect (but don't know) that the same is true of several threads. They lose their reason for being and, in the best instances, simply die an unattended death. In the worst instances, they morph into something else. Having lost their steering wheel when the moderator disappears, they simply become a darts board.