The Devolution Of Charles Johnson

From Wizbang:

A couple of weeks ago, I had a bit of my say about the devolution of Charles Johnson and Little Green Footballs. In the course of that article, I cited a few quotes from the LGF Dictionary which seemed decidedly at odds with the current direction of the site.

Well, Charles apparently agreed with me, because the vaunted LGF Dictionary is no more.

It still lives on in Google's cache, for now and I was foresighted enough (for once) to save a LGF Dictionary.pdf copy on my laptop.

I'd be curious to hear Charles' reasoning for deleting the dictionary...

From LGF Banned And Blocked:

LGF banned blocked AND OBLITERATED - Volume 1

The happenin's with Little Green Footballs since "Banned and Blocked" closed down have been dizzying! As I noted, many, many others have taken up the close scrutiny of the psychological and sociological case of Charles Johnson and his blog.

This update regards a very interesting new development in the Little Green Footballs story - Charles Johnson has started seriously trying to change history by obliterating past comments going back all the way to registration in 2004 and, in some cases, beyond.

I'm not including the one-off flouncers and discovered sock-puppets with a dozen or so posts who get their entire LGF life's work flicked away. I'm only including the "heavy hitters" in this series of posts.

This is a report on the known members of the banned, blocked, AND OBLITERATED crowd:

1. SAVAGE NATION. I believe that this thorn in Charles' side was the first to be completely nuked. A full report on the circumstances can be found here. Since his obliteration, savage_nation has gone on to bigger things - his identity was outrageously outed by Charles, he is a regular poster at Rayra's Grouchy Conservative Pundits site, and, of course, he is a key member of the LGF 2.0 blogmocracy gang and their alternately hilarious and terrifying site.

2. SONG AND DANCE MAN. Case study #4, song_and_dance_man (SADM) followed his original banning with the unpardonable sin, in October 2008, of posting on Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch website. Or so says Charles (I have no interest in wading into that cesspool to verify). Charles, or one of his toadies, then apparently rifled through SADM's over 30,000 posts (now THAT's a job for the internship from hell!) and found a couple that sounded racist. So Charles obliterated SADM's "contributions" to his illustrious website. Of all of the victims of obliteration, SADM probably deserved it least - although Charles would never admit error, he undoubtedly realized that if SADM could be obliterated, then about 75% of his total posts would have to go. But, like Josef Stalin's red purges of the 1930's, the obliteration of the innocuous SADM undoubtedly sent shivers through lizardoid toady hearts.

There's more. Click the link above to read the whole thing.

My comments: I went looking for my comments history at LGF a couple months ago.

I could not find any comments to my name.

One has to wonder if he's also doing the same thing to the old posts.

I believe at least some of the reason for Charles' change is fear.

Why else would he erase history?

I have no idea what he might be afraid of, though it could have something to do with this.

Maybe not.

Whatever. It is his right to do what he wants to do with his own site.