What really makes a.s.m. Plain and simple. But those days are gone forever, and probably for the better. This is an inane point. I would much rather smart people run things than idiots.
Politicians are usually smart people who get too caught up in their own hype.
An analog kill file if you will. An influx of people is usually a good thing for any closed society. However, much like we as a country and trying to deal with the waves of illegal immigrants, so are the denizens of alt.sex.movies trying to deal with hordes of newbies. Newcomers use the same argument, and oldbies do too. Yes, we were all all new once.