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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GOBUCKS on July 10, 2009, 05:48:04 PM
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-10-09 06:39 PM
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I left in a huff yesterday...
I awoke feeling crappy and signed on for my daily dose of sanity. So what did I find? Something I've opposed since I first saw it proposed. Some folks are feeling vindicated--and some positively radiant--and they're going to decide for the rest of us why we dislike and/or oppose the new un-recommend feature.
First of all, everyone already HAD an unrecommend feature. It's called NOT RECOMMENDING in the first place. If something didn't interest you, didn't recommend it. Now one actually has the power to step in and eliminate someone else's vote, render their opinion, effectively, null and void. Canceling someone else's belief about that particular post. One doesn't have to contribute anything to the discussion but push-button denial.
Or not.
Either way, it's pretty obvious to me how a concerted effort by as few as ten people could effectively silence any single person's voice on DU from here on out. If a post doesn't make it to the Greatest Page within about an hour, it never will unless someone makes the attempt to kick it up where others can see it. If such a group wanted to make sure a person's voice, or a certain subject, should die, they could make it happen.
And for those critics who'd suggest that this is about my ego, or anything like that, I'd just like to remind them that I'm a writer. Writing is what I do. And so far this is not only far more gratifying than ninety percent of the idiotic things an author is expected to do these days to promote oneself, it also has the added benefit of being more effective for me in the long run. When I post here, and get those numbers, it drives more people to my website. Of course, one must also decide whether that's good, bad, or indifferent. We all want to be recognized for what we're good at, do we not? I'm not forcing anyone to buy my books, or even asking all that often. But I sure as hell want people to be aware that they exist.
I think this whole unrecommend thing is a really bad idea. And, though you definitely don't have to take my word for it, I'm right about these things far more often than I'm wrong.
Regardless--I'll catch everyone later. Just not now.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6036351
If he keeps this up, franksolich may lose patience and abandon him.
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I feel sorry for him if he is so insecure that one little point of a message board makes me run off and cry. Is his life really that pathetic that he has time to worry about shit like this?
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Took 2 pictures of his hands, burned some saje, stood in some healing white light for 2 hours and healed himself......everything is fine now.
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Now one actually has the power to step in and eliminate someone else's vote, render their opinion, effectively, null and void. Canceling someone else's belief about that particular post. One doesn't have to contribute anything to the discussion but push-button denial.
Just like voting in general. Suck it up. Some people don't like your opinions, and they can vote them down.
My vote for McCain canceled out yours for 0bama. You're not going to quit voting in elections are you?
Grow a ****ing pair.
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Oh geezuz.
The "Mythsaje" primitive, by constantly embarrassing himself, risks being demoted from a second-tier primitive down to one the the les risibles primitives, the ridiculous primitives, the laughable primitives.
That's quite a descent, even below the unterprimitiven and the abandonado primitives.
The only demotion greater than this was when Pedro Picasso soared down from being a non-primitive to being a les risibles primitive.
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Annoying insect, bugzapper, you know the drill...
:lmao:
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Took 2 pictures of his hands, burned some saje, stood in some healing white light for 2 hours and healed himself......everything is fine now.
I thought Mythsaje was more of a 'roll a D20 and hope for the best' type myself. Not that I have any problem with role-players or role-playing games.. But I do have a problem with those who carry around dice to solve problems in real life as if the dice were some sort of ultra-complex Magic 8 Ball.
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It sounds like he realizes that many DUmmies consider him a no talent hack and he won`t get the attention that he feels he deserves. :loser:
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Hey frank...isn't this DUmmy the pie faced, rotund American Indian who makes most of his $$ selling junk at flea markets?
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Hey frank...isn't this DUmmy the pie faced, rotund American Indian who makes most of his $$ selling junk at flea markets?
No, sir, this is the late-20s primitive who works in the receiving department of a Target somewhere out west, Oregon or Washington or Idaho. The child of one of these hippie pairings, spent much time in a hippie commune when young. Learned all the standard and usual druid and dragon crap.
The "Mythsaje" primitive however has two things going for him. Number one, he's gainfully employed. Number two, even though bitterly divorced from his wife (he shacks up with some wanton woman now), since there are two young sons involved, he and the ex-wife keep their differences away from the sons; they even jointly buy the Christmas presents for the kids.
So those are two +s for the "Mythsaje" primitive.
Of course, the big - is that, at the moment, he's making a monumental ass of himself.
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No, sir, this is the late-20s primitive who works in the receiving department of a Target somewhere out west, Oregon or Washington or Idaho. The child of one of these hippie pairings, spent much time in a hippie commune when young. Learned all the standard and usual druid and dragon crap.
The "Mythsaje" primitive however has two things going for him. Number one, he's gainfully employed. Number two, even though bitterly divorced from his wife (he shacks up with some wanton woman now), since there are two young sons involved, he and the ex-wife keep their differences away from the sons; they even jointly buy the Christmas presents for the kids.
So those are two +s for the "Mythsaje" primitive.
Of course, the big - is that, at the moment, he's making a monumental ass of himself.
Ah yes, he's the one I did the writing analysis on. He came out like 8th grade level.
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Oh geezuz.
The "Mythsaje" primitive, by constantly embarrassing himself, risks being demoted from a second-tier primitive down to one the the les risibles primitives, the ridiculous primitives, the laughable primitives.
That's quite a descent, even below the unterprimitiven and the abandonado primitives.
The only demotion greater than this was when Pedro Picasso soared down from being a non-primitive to being a les risibles primitive.
I'd vote for his immediate demotion. He's earned it.
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I'd vote for his immediate demotion. He's earned it.
Seconded!
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This is as funny as when $kimmer changed the General Discussion Presidential to something else for a microsecond (after * stole his second term in 04). The primitives stormed his house with pitchforks till he changed it back. :rotf:
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I wanted to have a contest to see who could guess the closest time of its return engagement.
Shoulda. woulda. coulda. :banghead:
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I feel sorry for him if he is so insecure that one little point of a message board makes me run off and cry. Is his life really that pathetic that he has time to worry about shit like this?
It reminds me of those that did not like the bitch slaps on CC. :evillaugh:
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They can't an itty bitty amount of criticsm. its amazing.