Any non partisan person who visits JoeUser long enough will get the feeling that the site is a right wing leaning site. They'd be right. Part of the reason has to do with many of the better writers here just happen to be conservatives. But another reason is that some of the right wingers act like packs of predators, baiting and chasing off anyone who dares espouse other points of view.
The way they do it is simple, they piss them off. Whenever a progressive post is written, a pack of mean-spirited right wingers will pile on and start insulting, belittleing and putting down what they said. Very rarely are any of the points raised discussed. Instead, those points are dismissed out of hand and the person making the article attacked and smeared.
Eventually the left winger is chased off the site. If they don't leave voluntarily, they eventually get mad and start attacking back. Some of the high profile left of center people here on JU have not played the game well. Wisefawn, Dabe, Myrrander and many other outspoken progressives have let the conservative wolf packs piss them off to the point of losing their cool and playing into their hands ending in banishment or some sort of limited voice.
I think JU's admins need to advertise the blacklist feature more. I also think JU admins need to try to feature more balanced articles. I think many progressives feel frustrated and angry because conservatives get their posts featured more. I'm not going to fall into the pack's trap. I will just black list and ignore those who just want to personally attack me as a person for writing about things that matter to me that don't fit into their world view. I will also smile inside when I see the next post decrying how 'liberals' are intolerant, unreasonable, hateful because I know that conservatives are just as guilty. I write about things I enjoy on MY blog. And there is no excuse for the personal attacks I saw HERE and HERE.