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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: EagleKeeper on October 08, 2012, 11:57:42 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251126020
grasswire (35,380 posts)
Resolved: DU should not allow new members posting privileges ....
....in the six weeks prior to a presidential election.
The trollism is currently insufferable.
Why allow these paid trolls to clutter up the site we have invested our time and resources in?
Yes, some good new members might be temporarily stymied. That would be the price of a peaceful, useful site.
Or perhaps there should be a higher membership fee for joining in the last six weeks prior to a presidential election. Fifty bucks might work.
LiberalEsto (14,410 posts)
Response to grasswire (Original post)
1. I agree with you nt
uppityperson (66,180 posts)
Response to grasswire (Original post)
2. Seems more like a meta post. I think they stop allowing new signups a week or 2 before election.
New campfire, I'm sure it will pick up steam.
All in all no surprise though, after all the DUmmies can't be confused by dissenting views.
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Why allow these paid trolls to clutter up the site we have invested our time and resources in?
Okay, why am I not gettin' my check from the VRWC?? I'm pissed! Guess I better take it up with the shop steward!
Hey BlueState!!!!!
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grasswire (35,383 posts)
Response to uppityperson (Reply #2)
4. meta threads only reach a small # of DU-ers. nt
enlightenment (5,555 posts)
Response to grasswire (Original post)
3. Given that you do not have to pay for a membership
that allows posting privileges, your second scenario is unworkable.
Personally, I find the first rather authoritarian.
Also, the word you want to use is "proposed" - "resolved" is used after a decision has been made. Since you are in no position to unilaterally make the decision, it is not the appropriate term.
I am assuming you are not being satirical, although I suspect you may claim that out when you start getting your arse handed to you in this thread.
grasswire (35,383 posts)
Response to enlightenment (Reply #3)
6. thanks, nanny. nt
sufrommich (12,345 posts)
Response to sufrommich (Reply #5)
What is the worst that happens if you
encounter a troll,a temporary annoyance? That's worth silencing new members? No thanks, it's an internet forum not life and death.
:rofl:
grasswire (35,383 posts)
Response to sufrommich (Reply #5)
7. no, the worst that happens is that they often introduce disinformation...
...and even propaganda. We're seeing multiple instances of this. It could be called the Glip model of Internet posting.
It's not "a troll, a temporary annoyance". It's many trolls in a day. Trolls who leave disinformation. Disinformation requires that another member must bother to refute it, because not everyone reading DU is totally savvy about every topic.
Heh...yeah the message must be controlled!
Steam = gathering
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"disinformation" = some truth.
I'm buying some new guns with my check.
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HooptieWagon (4,549 posts)
Response to grasswire (Original post)
8. That's ridiculous.
The trolls are smoked out pretty quickly, and their temporary visits are often quite entertaining, in a village idiot sort of way.
If you want to rid DU of annoying posters, start with the puritans, the serial alerters, and the (allegedly nonexistant) astroturfers.
UCmeNdc (218 posts)
Response to grasswire (Original post)
9. I was a little confused since,
it did seem to me that some posts were being submitted by Romney supporters.
This confirmed my suspicions. Thanks!
:o
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UCmeNdc (218 posts)
Response to grasswire (Original post)
9. I was a little confused since,
it did seem to me that some posts were being submitted by Romney supporters.
This confirmed my suspicions. Thanks!
WOW...So if you are a member of DU and you actually believe anything of what Romney says, you had better keep your mouth shut ...you are NOT allowed to have your own opinion...it has to be tow the party line or get tomb stoned.
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Poor addled grasswipe Judy Smith really thinks Skimmer cares what she thinks about running his little money factory.
I know if I were Skimmer I'd want to check in with a muttering, addled Oregon street person for help with business decisions.
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The truly damaging moles have been there for years subtly removing the thin veneer of tolerance and love that DUchebags think they have.
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But then what does the DUmp do with those of us who have been "trolls" & posting/gently poking at the hive from within for years? :D
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But then what does the DUmp do with those of us who have been "trolls" & posting/gently poking at the hive from within for years? :D
Some of whom have even received DOTY votes.
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Okay, why am I not gettin' my check from the VRWC?? I'm pissed! Guess I better take it up with the shop steward!
Hey BlueState!!!!!
Resubmit your vouchers. You know what a hard-ass Betty in Accounting is on paperwork.
:cheersmate:
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Where do I sign up to get paid to troll. DU like a fool I've been doing it for free for the past decade. I demand back pay dammit!!!!!
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So...the campfire got doused, can't have this kind of stuff publically available you know.
MADem (78,496 posts)
Response to grasswire (Original post)
17. Please post this kind of thing in META. It has NO PLACE in POLITICS-12. Thank you.
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But then what does the DUmp do with those of us who have been "trolls" & posting/gently poking at the hive from within for years? :D
Heh!!
Where do I sign up to get paid to troll. DU like a fool I've been doing it for free for the past decade. I demand back pay dammit!!!!!
Be careful when you ask for BACK pay when discussin' the DUmp, Freep!
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Resubmit your vouchers. You know what a hard-ass Betty in Accounting is on paperwork.
:cheersmate:
*Ahem.* Betty just told me that AR checked the "Donate to the R&D Budget" option . . . :whistling: :fuelfire: :tongue: