Where’s Billmon?

 Describing dKos in April 2010 ? no Whiskey bar in June 2004.

over the past few months I’ve noticed a definite deterioration in the quality of the conversation here at the bar. Trolls I can usually give the bum’s rush pretty quickly – at least most of the time. But I’m seeing more and more stuff on the threads that strikes me as marginal at best….- people who seem to get their main kick out of insulting or picking fights with the other patrons; people who don’t have anything particularly intelligent to say, and aren’t very articulate about saying it….That’s generally what the on-line world is like, I know, but for a time Whiskey Bar seemed to inhabit a different space: a bit more thoughtful, more intimate, less raucous, and – maybe most important of all – less crowded.