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Does anyone know the back story on why Digby banned a few rather odious and noxious far-left commenters from her blog on or right after election day? I'm not going to mention their id's, but anyone who's spent any amount of time in the comments section of her blog probably knows who I mean. These were folks who probably viewed Nader as a bit too right-wing, although they claimed to support him and McKinney.
And while apparently dead serious about their beliefs, were nevertheless effectively troll-like in their presence in the way that they caustically and condescendingly tore down anyone whom they disagreed with, with a special fondness for liberals and progressives, whom they viewed as self-deluded phonies who hadn't been sufficiently enlightened as to the one true path. They had an air of impatient superiority that really wore on you and made you not want to post there.
In fact, that's precisely what I was not doing during the week leading up to the election, since they made it so unpleasant to post there, which is why I missed out on whatever finally happened to make Digby decide to just yank 'em for good (and they won't be hard to spot as zombies, since they had a very distinct writing style and philosophical point of view).
Anyway, just wondering why they were yanked at last. And why they picked her blog to hang out at in the first place. I didn't so much mind what they had to say, and sometimes even found myself agreeing with them, as I minded the disrespectful and unpleasant way in which they said it. They made everything an ad hom attack, clearly intentionally.
