A poll to change the SOP, so far 18 in favor and 4 opposed

[pablo_marmol]

12. Very good idea, IMO.

There should be no place for cowardly hit-and-run posts anywhere on DU. I just noticed that one DU member just called out another for a content-free OP in the GD Primaries forum.

The strategy of spam posters is clear. Dr. Gary Kleck refers to the dishonest tactic of pro-control supporters when they quote one garbage study after another. They attempt to convince an uninformed public that "the evidence is mixed" w/regard to gun violence, when of course the evidence is decidedly unkind for Control. Our resident member/spammer(s) are of course aware that muddying the waters of honest discourse works to his/their advantage, given that the Control thesis relies on appeals to emotion. They likely also know that many who read our threads come from outside of DU -- and it is in their interest to suppress the fact than a fair number of Democrats refuse to sign off on the ludicrous, self-destructive and dishonest hand-wringing we do w/regard to imaginary threats such as "assault weapons", "gun show loopholes" and armor-piercing ammunition.

Of course such a rule would apply equally to pro-RKBA members. Deciding on what constitutes honest presentation/discussion of an article could be at times problematic, but I think that the forum moderator is more than qualified to make calls on this.

My 2 cents.