Blog P.I. provides an in-depth analysis of the new “Hotsoup” political site. Verdict: It ain’t so hot.

I concur with the analysis, and add —

I’ve been messing around on Internet discussion forums for more than a dozen years. I go back to pre-Web forums like the original CompuServe and Prodigy, and the inglorious Usenet. And I’ve participated in all kinds of web forums. And I’ve run this blog for a while. I’m an old hand at Internet debate, in other words. But I’ll be damned if I can figure out how the Hotsoup “discussion loops” are supposed to work. I can’t find threads, just disjointed comments that don’t seem to attach to anything else. Very weird.

In any event, the site’s a crashing bore.