... had some relevance, that was intimidating to those who would control the framing necessary to defeat all opposing opinion.

This place went from being a vital part of the 'common' to being a backwater totally controlled by private interests, and populated more and more by yahoo's.

Every 'improvement' has been a diminishment from the perspective of the 'common good'.

Someday we will look back on the years 1995-2005 as the decade of internet freeedom, then came big-brother and the wave of attendants, clever, verbally agile butt kissers who sold out their fellow man for the right to be 'in charge'.