It's baffling to me why DV isn't cleaned up and the site held to a little higher standard. Unfortunately, the concept of "cleaning up" DV that's in vogue right now involves stifling harmless free speech. I checked in the other night and saw that someone's thread had been deleted because they were asserting that a certain mod should be fired. It's always a fine line between order and rigid authoritarian bullshit, and several of the current mods have moved to the dark side IMO, at least where that is concerned.
They have completely misunderstood both the negatives of DV and (more importantly IMO) they have lost sight of what makes it great. At this point I don't spend much time on DV, not because of the racism (which I loath but can stomach), but because some of the mods and one admin in particular are shitting on the vibrant heart and soul of something I love.
