Updated, thanks.

It’s a fine idea but feels like it’s maybe past its prime in terms of active maintenance? Like I checked out my old neighborhood in the suburbs of a large US city and the primary road through it (which the area is named after and has a very big visible welcome sign indicating that) was misspelled. I don’t have an account and didn’t care to learn how to edit it, but I did drop a note flagging the error. Then I browsed some of the other notes and noticed they were all multiple years old. Even Manhattan was littered with months- or years-old notes with only a handful of them marked resolved. Maybe they were just hard edge cases not easily fixed, but it gave the impression of a database that has not been broadly maintained for years.

I voted for Sanders in the 2016 primary, but at this point I think he would have been destroyed, McGovern-style, if he’d been the nominee either time. He never had to face a truly negative campaign in the primaries and there’s no telling how he would have fared if Republicans (and some Democrats!) really twisted the knife with stuff like “the rape essay”, his employment history, his association with socialism, etc. We made out so much better with a moderate-seeming guy like Biden who managed to secure most of what Sanders would have been realistically able to pass while giving it a nice centrist sheen.

Something to keep in mind is that just because a community hasn’t been active recently doesn’t mean it’s completely dead. As long as it has subscribers, new posts will show up on their front pages and get votes and comments, even if it’s been weeks since the last post.

Reminds me of one of my favorite Point/Counterpoint articles from The Onion:

“Darling, I Will Give You The Moon And The Stars” (by an English grad student)

vs.

“Giving Me The Moon And Stars Would Have Disastrous Effects On Our Galaxy” (by a physics grad student)

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/todays-my-birthday/