RIA has become cluttered with facebook and myspace one-line comments.
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. . .the writing has improved somewhat from the level of retardation we've seen in the past (and it was quite awful). . .and it attracted morons and would scare away a few who value the careful measurement of language like a wonderful wordsmith like moi. . .
I get it- this place has to expand to stay in business. . .but by expanding you include more of the general population. . .and if the general population reads on a middle-school level imagine the low level of linguistic disasters we've had to sit through. . .
the myspace and facebook thingies are flavors of the month that will move along until the next gee-whiz technological communications method comes into play. Until then, the slight decline of overall quality reviews will suffer- and that isn't a terrible reason to leave the place.
Now what can we do about that damn star. . .