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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on January 22, 2011, 04:39:00 PM
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jan-22-11 11:01 AM
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I thought the "unrec" feature was a contributing factor to incivility here Updated at 12:36 PM
I for one am glad it is getting tombstoned. I have never posted my thoughts on this issue before, so I am not someone anyone should label a constant whiner--whatever.
I confess to having used it. Still, I find "unrec" meanspirited and cowardly. I think if you don't like what I have to say, you should yell at me. I can take it. We'll debate. This is a message board. That's what it's all about. I might even come to agree with you. I am here to be educated as a citizen and to develop my social consciousness. Don't lurk in the shadows and shoot poison darts at me. Engage me directly.
I have learned to be so much more articulate because of my ten years at DU. I have met really cool people, funny people, gifted people, wise people, and a only a very few I'd not want to call my friend. Lifelong learning. I have learned more about the big picture, how everything relates to it. I have had my thinking challenged. I have engaged in lively debate. Been informed. Said stupid things. Sounded wise a time or two. Reached out to others which I normally don't do as I am a reclusive person by nature. I am shy around people. No one would call me shy on DU. I am sure other much more accurate adjectives would come to mind. Because the Bush years made me strong in some ways. Unafraid of shouting for one thing. Angry at the way government operates. My vote means more to me than it did in the past. I am more thoughtful. Politically more committed to the left. Committed to activism and to supporting those who take action to protest social injustices.
"unrec"ing posts doesn't really help me do any of the things I come to DU for.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x249240
What a bunch of babies. Wahhhhh some freeper unrecd me. :mental:
Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jan-22-11 11:06 AM
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1. It's a license to act like a coward.
Think of it on a Tom Ridge color-coded scale.
Worst is "unrec" because you can act like a damned grade schooler and "vote down" the kids you don't like in class with total anonymity.
Next worse is "attacking the poster and not the post." Still an act of cowardice, especially when people use thinly-veiled references to someone else to fly under the radar of DU's rules.
"Ideal" is adults having a civil conversation, AS ADULTS, even if the rhetoric is full of fire. That's gonna happen, especially on a Website that's primarily devoted to politics.
I hadn't heard anything about "unrec" going away but my three-word response is about frigging time.
:patriot:
Yeah we aren't all as brave as you goons who only post in the echo chamber of DU.
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I got out the boat and rowed over to that bonfire on Skins's island, hoping to see the sparkling husband primitive jubilating.
In case one doesn't remember, the sparkling husband primitive loathes this feature.
Anyway, alas, no sparkling husband primitive.
I've been reading the crime news and obituaries in the Baltimore news-sites all day long, worried.
One hopes the sparkling husband primitive's okay.
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See what happens when you whine about the BS?? You sound like a DU misfit, that's what.
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I got out the boat and rowed over to that bonfire on Skins's island, hoping to see the sparkling husband primitive jubilating.
In case one doesn't remember, the sparkling husband primitive loathes this feature.
Anyway, alas, no sparkling husband primitive.
I've been reading the crime news and obituaries in the Baltimore news-sites all day long, worried.
One hopes the sparkling husband primitive's okay.
Don't worry Frank I am sure he just hit the bong a little harder than normal since he was so depressed over Keef.
When he sobers up he will return.
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See what happens when you whine about the BS?? You sound like a DU misfit, that's what.
I had to BS you for that. :tongue:
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I had to BS you for that. :tongue:
Only :baby: care about their karma.
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Don't worry Frank I am sure he just hit the bong a little harder than normal since he was so depressed over Keef.
When he sobers up he will return.
No, actually about a week ago, I started noticing a sharp, jagged, erratic quality to the sparkling husband primitive's comments on Skins's island, indicative of heart pains.
And then about a day after that, the FBI had a big round-up of mafiosi, and I checked the names of those arrested--it was a long, long list--but then I couldn't remember if the sparkling husband primitive's monicker was "Loser Louie" or "Cat's Behind Charlie" or "Girlie-man Giovanni" or somesuch.
The sparkling husband primitive's been absent from Skins's island; either he pulled a Fred Sanford or is behind bars.
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I got out the boat and rowed over to that bonfire on Skins's island, hoping to see the sparkling husband primitive jubilating.
In case one doesn't remember, the sparkling husband primitive loathes this feature.
Anyway, alas, no sparkling husband primitive.
I've been reading the crime news and obituaries in the Baltimore news-sites all day long, worried.
One hopes the sparkling husband primitive's okay.
Is he the one who works with the mob? I wonder if he was rounded up with the other 100 mobsters the other day?
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No, actually about a week ago, I started noticing a sharp, jagged, erratic quality to the sparkling husband primitive's comments on Skins's island, indicative of heart pains.
And then about a day after that, the FBI had a big round-up of mafiosi, and I checked the names of those arrested--it was a long, long list--but then I couldn't remember if the sparkling husband primitive's monicker was "Loser Louie" or "Cat's Behind Charlie" or "Girlie-man Giovanni" or somesuch.
The sparkling husband primitive's been absent from Skins's island; either he pulled a Fred Sanford or is behind bars.
So wait a second, he was posting at DU complaining about heart pains? I would hope he would have been smart enough to go to the ER instead of getting input from the hive.
Hell most of those goons need a committee to figure out what kind of salad dressing to put on their salads.
:mental:
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Is he the one who works with the mob? I wonder if he was rounded up with the other 100 mobsters the other day?
Most of those picked up were with the Genovese crime family in New York City, not the d'Alessandro mob that runs Baltimore, but of course the various organizations are tightly intertwined.
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So wait a second, he was posting at DU complaining about heart pains?
No, he wasn't commenting about that.
But his comments in general had a quality suggesting he was punching the keyboard in between being punched on the inside of his chest; one could almost see his pain.
The sparkling husband primitive's done a Fred Sanford before.
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Damnit.. What am I going to do about the Unwrecker software that I will neither confirm nor deny exists....
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No, he wasn't commenting about that.
But his comments in general had a quality suggesting he was punching the keyboard in between being punched on the inside of his chest; one could almost see his pain.
The sparkling husband primitive's done a Fred Sanford before.
Ahhh I see.
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Damnit.. What am I going to do about the Unwrecker software that I will neither confirm nor deny exists....
No kiddin'! I may or may not have enjoyed watchin' the flailing of arm pits when they got unrecced! Geez Skins, do you have to take all the fun out of it?
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Oh, I hope he's OK frank.
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Sorry, coach, the catbox crapper made it through the mob dragnet, unless he's posting from a breachfront safe house:
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-21-11 10:27 PM
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When you hear the term "righteous anger" . . . . .
. . . . what comes up first for you, the "anger" part or the "righteous" part?
I am asking in relation to KO's mugging. Some people think he was too "angry" all the time.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x246029
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Skinner ADMIN (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-21-11 10:29 AM
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1. Don't worry.
We're getting rid of the unrecs.
:bawl:
How am I going to feel important now???
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Sorry, coach, the catbox crapper made it through the mob dragnet, unless he's posting from a breachfront safe house:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x246029
Oh man.
I am relieved.
Imagine how sad it would've been, if the sparkling husband primitive had enjoyed his status as the number two top primitive for only three weeks, rather than a whole year.
But something's up here; the sparkling husband primitive's been exhibiting symptoms that usually precede major cardio-muscular damage. I hope he's seeing a physician.
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Oh man.
I am relieved.
Imagine how sad it would've been, if the sparkling husband primitive had enjoyed his status as the number two top primitive for only three weeks, rather than a whole year.
But something's up here; the sparkling husband primitive's been exhibiting symptoms that usually precede major cardio-muscular damage. I hope he's seeing a physician.
Maybe Doug's stupid ex wife is making an underhanded play to move her way up the list.
Not the kind of thing I'd put past a DUmmy of that magnitude.
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Wahhhh someone unrec-ed me.
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Wahhhh someone unrec-ed me.
unrec
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-22-11 11:01 AM
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I thought the "unrec" feature was a contributing factor to incivility here
DUmmy Generic Other has 1000+ posts, but must be a newbie nonetheless. Otherwise he would know that the DUmp has always seethed with hateful, spiteful incivility. The whole purpose of the DUmp, from the first day that Skimmer labored and puked it forth, was to express hatred for George W. Bush and the country that elected him. Dubya served his two terms, successfully protecting the country from further attacks by the savages promoted by the DUmp, and left office. With Dubya now on the sidelines, the DUmp's profane hatred is more focused on America. None of that incivility has anything to do with an unrec button.
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Exit question: "Do two unrec's in a row equal a rec?"
Try wrapin' your feeble little minds 'o mush around that one DUmmies!
We'll wait! ( cue the "Wheel of Fortune" theme song, Patriot! )
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Just imagine the fun on the Island if "recs and unrecs" were done like the "Like" button on Facebook. You rec or unrec a post and people could see their enemies that are unreccing them.
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Just imagine the fun on the Island if "recs and unrecs" were done like the "Like" button on Facebook. You rec or unrec a post and people could see their enemies that are unreccing them.
Not a good idea, it might expose moles that may or may not be there! ©Miskie, snicker!
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Not a good idea, it might expose moles that may or may not be there! ©Miskie, snicker!
But a good mole, one like miskie may or may not be, could unrec something and give a valid reason. That would be something most DUmmies couldn't do. :thatsright: That would still out the moles that may or may not be there.
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But a good mole, one like miskie may or may not be, could unrec something and give a valid reason. That would be something most DUmmies couldn't do. :thatsright: That would still out the moles that may or may not be there.
Yeah, it would behoove the moles to use some really outlandish, stupid reason to unrec something. But only once in a while.