What do you mean by "vendetta"? I'm not particularly conservative, but I am relative to Metafilter and I've argued center-to-right positions there (for example

What do you mean by "vendetta"? I'm not particularly conservative, but I am relative to Metafilter and I've argued center-to-right positions there (for example, pro-life). I think it's true to say that it can be very challenging to engage the membership in a way that goes against the lefty gestalt, and if/when you do, there are certainly members who will be less than kind or thoughtful about responding to that kind of participation. But I've rarely had any problem with negative attention from the mods, certainly nothing that I'd describe as a vendetta.