You are right. It seems pretty easy to instigate a debate over at American News Post. From what I read, there is a range of credibility among those who post comments. The best posters are the ones who simply ask direct questions rather than make their own claims or assert street knowledge. For example, Fosco knows little about the Chinatown crew (or at least is not forthcoming about what he does know), and for a few years, there was at least one idiot (Black Angelo) who dragged ANP way down by making all these fantastic obviously false claims like Toots Caruso bringing in his sleepers from the Five Families of New York to carry out hits throughout Bridgeport. Pure stupidity, obviously. Fosco ignored it but comments like that would attract credulous people, and these weird tangents developed in the comments. 80% of those threads are garbage. The most unsolicited information comes from Fosco when he has been provoked or attacked in some way, off the blog. He can be good to talk to in-person and (to a lesser extent) through email.