I was sorry to have missed the 'live' roundtable, on this site, the other day.. After reviewing the comments, I'm not sure that all of the questions were addressed, concerning the sheer 'overloading' of this site with  SPAMMER Ibastadobbs' rhetoric.

It seems that at least one I-reporter, 'Jayberdz' repeatedly attempted to ask very pertinent, intelligent questions of the CNN representative,regarding the disruption, but was not able to get real answers.

LOOK, if ALLof those NEGATIVE comments, about anchorman Lou Dobbs which were posted originally to a different site, and were from people who INTENDED to enter into debates or discussions on I-REPORT, there would be no further discussion. THEY WERE NOT. Those people were unsuspecting pawns. They were, supposedly, commenting on a petition on another site, and presumably UNAWARE  that their comments would be transported over to I-Report. Granted, it may not have bothered some of them, to find out that this had been done, but it was still a violation of their rights. Those comments were 'pirated' by Ibastadobbs in order to overload this site with his/her agenda.

Now, CNN YOU have allowed, even advocated, this once. What happens if EVERYONE starts to repeat this lunacy? This site will be destroyed pretty rapidly, wouldn't you agree?

Some people are questioning whether or not there was an ulterior motive for your leniency in allowing this to occur.

NOTE:  Since writing the above post, another I-Reporter 'eyeseeks' posted some very interesting information, below. It seems that the 'commenters' on the Ibastadobbs' petition site WERE, in fact, given the opportunity to know that their comment would be placed on the CNN I-report site, after all.

However, as 'eyeseeks' states, these commenters were not members of I-report, or if they were, they were not signed into the site, as such. Only Ibastadobbs was signed into the site.  The whole procedure was still, in my opinion, an act of pirating/spamming, and CNN were aware of it, and allowed it to occur.