Frank Knotts, a contributor at Delaware Politics, has written a post about other contributors penchant for deleting comments they simply don’t agree with. This deleting of comments has been going on for quite a while, and fingers are being pointed at Don Ayotte – rightly so, imo.
For the second time today I have been made aware of people being blocked and banned from this site.
I have been made aware in the past of this practice. In some cases I have understood the reason, but many times it has seemed to me to be an attempt to either silence opposition to a contributors view point or simply because a comment was determined to be a personal attack. This has become a very broad definition.
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I would hope that I could continue to participate here at D P, but knowing that if I were not one of the contributors, I would surely be one of the banned, makes me wonder if I can continue to be associated with the site or some of those who contribute here.
What’s been going on at Delaware Politics mirrors what’s happening at the national level to the GOP… unless someone has another explanation of the “Not Romney” sensation. Look at it this way… what are the odds that Frank Knotts would ever vote for Don Ayotte, or vice versa? Unbelievably, the GOP has split into even tinier segments, and these segments are firmly entrenched. I don’t see them budging, and I sure don’t see all of them holding their noses and voting for the other guy.
Yet again, Delaware is seeing this split up close and personal. Frank Knotts is a Conservative, but Don Ayotte is a Super-duper Conservative who has labeled Frank a RINO. Which is kind of funny and completely ridiculous. It’s also the end result of the purity contest.
No matter who wins that contest, the deleting of comments at Delaware Politics has become a problem. Some threads are extremely difficult to read due to the gaps in conversation, and it seems to me that, however this plays out, Delaware Politics will have one less contributor.