Given the acrimony permeating the site from certain individuals, I have banned a fair number of posters over the last few days.
All of the people banned had mojos in the neighborhood of 1.0 -- people with a consistent and long history of troll ratings. Some of them would've been caught by Scoop eventually, and banned automatically. But I didn't want to wait.
Quite frankly, the bile coming from certain people would not be tolerated if it was coming from the DLC/Joementum wing of the party. But since it's from the party's left wing, I've been more tolerant (as have other posters who have propped up these individuals with unwarranted "4" ratings to keep them from being caught in the site's troll filter). No longer. It's a double standard I'm not willing to carry forth.
Daily Kos is well represented across the party's ideological spectrum, and people can agree and disagree with some modicum of respect. Those who are consistently unable to maintain basic levels of civility are not welcome.