abu a.

Wide and excellent News coverage with the best anchors and analysts on TV.
Anderson copper the best in cable Prime Time.
Great Intl coverage as well.
And the best expert analysis from science to politics.

Last stop for the LCD/Lowest Common denominator posters and the cynical RW mods that count on them generating page views/ad traffic.
The 'mods' (incl chief mod flacaltenn) actually cultivate and encourage the worst of the worst of them and will not protect decent posters from abuse.
Posts are usually one-line partisan trolls with no topical content.
A MAGA feedback Rooting section. Really Fox News Junior High.

The worst of the mods (and that's REALLY Bad), a Demented old RWer (Westwall who says he a Liberal but has never made a liberal post in 70,000) was demoted and now just a very active Troll making perhaps 20 posts and giving 300 Feedbacks a day.

Put up a good article from MSM source like WSJ/NYT/etc expected to be 'disliked' 10:1 with no on topic response.

I was going to name more names but there are literally Hundreds of worthless obnoxious 50-posts-a-day one-line clowns. 'Ding', 'Crusader Frank,' etc, x100 or x200.

Otherwise it's Censor City.
I just had a thread removed that cited only:
Pew Poll
Gallup Poll (via Guardian)
The Australian
BBC
Because it shed Islam in an unfavorable light.
That's all it takes on Pistorum.com.
Thread removed, indefinite suspension (up from initial 3 day)

Pretty much very Juvenile discussion in any case.
The board is filled with Revisionist History
You've probably seen it and the like.
'Afro-centric' B. A.'s telling you they Built the Pyramids, invented the Radio, Tennis Racket, and lived in High Civilization before Greece, Rome, etc.

I've been sparsely posting on this site for 12 years. (recently briefly active again) One just HAS to leave after repeated attempts to find sanity. This is the dumping ground for banned Troll rejects fromother message boards who are much better moderated. Behavior is condoned here not allowed anywhere else since non-Moderated Yahoo mbs.

A few even called it 'Stormfront light", but that website has much more sober/sincere posting than USMB, and would NOT allow the juvenile Trollling that goes on USMB every minute. SF knows alot of outsiders read it, and they wouldn't tolerate the embarrassing childish clownery/trolling on USMB.

One simply can't even post in the Environment section (Climate) without being hounded off, WITH management's silent complicity. The Two mods who post in the section are Warming deniers and condone the Rampant Trolling there. (Flacaltenn, and the dim bulb 'westwall'). Trolls, Namely skookserasbil, jc456, Billy_bob, etc, mock every serious sci poster there.

With great effort, and after four or five reports to specific senior mod, I got Climate Clown/Troll skookerasbil banned for 5 days. He came right back doing the Same thing.
I reported it to same mod, and he got merely thread-banned.
That's right DE-escalating infraction penalties!
Any other board would at least double his ban time to 10 days or Perma-ban him.
He does it Every day. No content trolling posts with 3 or 4 Juvenile baiting emoticons.
No adult posts like that.
I've had enough.
I'm taking another year off from you Clowns.

One can put up a serious OP/thread starting with a WSJ or PNAS (proceedings Natl Acad Science) article and get overwhelmingly "Funnied", so that that is what one sees/is visible when looking at the section. And others in 'Politics' section etc.

An example from today of the unbelievably low quaility 'discussion'.
http://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/russia-favored-trump-in-2016-senate-panel-says-breaking-with-house-gop.*******/
The OP puts up a Washington Post article. He gets overwhelming "Funnied"(11) by Right Wingers. (one can see this looking at the section overall)
The first response (from a Rightie Troll) is nothing but a Picture of a young man wearing a tinhat, and it gets 5 Positive (no neg) clicks from the other RW Trolls.
This is just typical. And on it goes with stupid "Screw Yous" and emoticons. It's the NRA Junior High.
Please keep reading the thread if you can. They're 90% cheap-shotting Clowns.

The board is overwhelming Right Wing TROLLS.
Who just destroy/mock any serious opposing view.
One can go two full pages after a serious OP and see nothing but mocking Tea Party Thugs calling everyone else 'libtard'.
There is NO help from mods, Zero.

I posted a serious thread in 'Politics' and was Mocked into oblivion, so one amateur mod moved my serious thread to the 'Badlands.' After hours of debate, threats/counter-threats, I got it moved back to 'politics.'
IOW, it was so badly Trolled, I was blamed for a Flaming topic and it was flushed!

This board doesn't want to give up any posters/pageviews as it is filled with ads, and that effects their bottom line. Also doesn't want to dump Paying Trolls.

As far as I can see NO one gets banned, as trolling is the pastime of 30-50% of the posters BOARD-WIDE.

I see a mgt person responded here to "sourgrapesBannees", but that's hardly the problem, (they must have shot someone). The problem is the board is 50% Unbanned trolls, and mods who know NOTHING about their jobs. Nada.

Sincerely
Abu afak

PS: Should any rep from USMB wish to discuss the issue, just PM me at the board.
NONE of you have any idea what you're doing, as obvious destructive (even insane) behavior is on view all day, every day, and in the major sections Especially.
I've posted on 100 mbs in 18 years, and YOU are the most Troll-filled of any I have seen.
Mayhem