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And I said up front that he should lock those comments section in order to prevent abuse and snuff them out. If we want to get rid of these posts the first thing to do is starve their access points and isolate them so they have no other options other than to reveal themselves in more vulnerable places. soapfan's idea was to lock the comments sections to authenticated users. Mine is to simply lock the comments sections completely. Neither of us are 'telling Errol how to run his site.' We are trying to mitigate the problem. I may have theories on which of our old and supposedly banned trolls are behind this longstanding behavior but theory isn't actionable and I have no idea how to prove it or stop it. So all we're working from is a basis of harm reduction. You are not and have never been capable of being subtle nor coy, say what you want and keep it moving. When we want you to posture as a thread mod, we'll call.

What I'd start by doing is more unilateral, and isn't really going to help the disgusting situation in those comments. So instead I would just lock the comments sections period for now if possible then see what develops next, because they'll find another way or start trolling directly here again on one of (IMO) several alts. Again, I haven't really frequented Datalounge in over a decade so I wasn't privy to it at the time they were active, but this looks very much like similar stuff (and language) after the fact. I was told whoever it was with that MO who kept rambling on about ancient SON stuff on that unrelated site got banned from DL not long ago for similar spam. It makes sense that they'd circle back here to use any nook and cranny they can find. And I am sure they are using multiple accounts that have simply not been banned.

Laura evolves and changes a lot over the first three seasons (and then more when she meets Greg Sumner), but she stays a character who keeps her own counsel and marches entirely to her own beat. And yes, I love that episode.

Kristina Wagner celebrates 40 years as Felicia. A great interview and a commentary again on what has been lost to taping time.

I said it on Primetimer, but while I love Rick Hearst and I love Ric as a slimeball, Ric is beneath Liz and has been for many years. She's a single, lonely lady slowly becoming an empty nester. She should hit it and quit it with Ric for a night or two just to get laid, then move forward with Lucky for romance. It happens with exes! Rick Hearst playing this as Ric the schemer realizes he got used would be hysterical.

I know! This cracked me up. Whereas I don't think Val came into her own until leaving Gary. In the first three seasons she was much more at his feet. Her crowning moment that starts this, besides getting into her career as a novelist, was her confronting Gary in jail at the end of S4 and tearing him apart, telling him sacrificing himself for Ciji re: guilt over their marriage accomplishes absolutely nothing. I think the Val in S4 and S5 is much stronger and more sure of herself. She knows what Gary is to her but she works to move past it.

Apparently the mics will be unmuted for cross-talk, which is good.

They also would not have gotten the same juice from Joe and Stephen Macht that they got from Dobson, or from a new central love story for Karen. And I liked Joe a lot and have always been fond of Macht.

Silver is cooking and unskewing his own polls. He says it himself.

This has finally broken through and is not going away.

I think the Val operation episode in S2 is pretty hilarious tbh. Sid karate kicking the door, etc.

Axios (and the relentlessly anti-Dem gossipmonger Alex Thompson) are annoyed people aren't hitting Kamala Harris enough: Meanwhile:

My take remains the same: We will take GA, and likely PA.

I also care not a whit for Stone II: Revenge of Stone.

That is hysterical.

Feckless media cheerleader Stelter RTing this is also a big deal.

In other news, Silver has basically admitted his latest nonsense predictions are due to him unskewing all the polls by reducing all Dem polling by 2-5 points because of the lack of a convention bounce (which, again, was already baked in) and his assumption that Dems will trend downward towards November, which hasn't happened in awhile. He also admitted to adding Trafalgar and Rasmussen, both of which are laughing stocks. He's become what he used to mock. Meanwhile:

Her and Brian Kerwin.

This all is finally getting real traction in the last few days, particularly since Mike Barnicle blasted the media practice of auto-sanitizing and editing Trump's words on Morning Joe.

TW: Brian Stelter.

Oh, "Man of the Hour" gets painful in that very arch sequence where the theatrical bereaved mother shows up and repeats the title over and over lol. But I have become very fond of Steve Shaw. I wish they'd done more with him and Michael, though I believe they do get some story and he's still going strong in Season 7.