> You had cranks, of course, but they were less likely to find a critical mass audience and nobody was trying to use them to reach a large audience. Not to me

> You had cranks, of course, but they were less likely to find a critical mass audience and nobody was trying to use them to reach a large audience. Not to mention the cranks that did exist were more likely to be amusingly erudite windbags than moronic spammers pasting unfunny conspiracy "jokes".