Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: I've got to think the teeth-grinding in Admin is escalating to dangerous heights over Bernie [View all]fasttense
(17,301 posts)Who have clean posting records with very few post deletions or banning.
If I were a Right Wing infiltrator, I would set up a group that I know the majority of DU members don't like. Like for example a pro-Hillary group or a pro-conservative group. Since the majority of DU members are Bernie supporters and liberals this group can ban the majority of members just because. This would allow them to make a point of banning members with long histories and few problems.
Banning as many active, problem free members as the group's founders are able to get away with, will create a hostile environment on DU that promotes arbitrary and capricious controls on posts. Long term members will come less frequently and the membership could decline low enough to make DU a shadow of itself.
These special protected groups should be controlled on who they ban to prevent this type of behavior.