Sorry for being unclear; I'm saying there are more RW nutjobs on this forum than LW nutjobs but the difference may be the massive number of RWNJs with sock puppets. Just the sock puppets of Teflon Don and IBDa alone would account for the difference, but I do not have the information to verify the count.
Do you really believe "overkill" is newbie or is he a sock? How do you tell?
Agreed. But there are also a few on the left, and possibly one or two who play both ways (not that there's anything wrong with that, I guess

I really don't know. It's that way on a lot of political forums for some reason.
I frequent a few automotive forums, those guys are legit. Some of them are master mechanics and there's a wealth of information there. Same with practicalmachinist.com. That site helped me out of a few predicaments, mainly with tooling, feeds and speeds for different types of materials.