Post Like I Tell You To Post!

[Alpha Mare]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8555649#8559564

MineralMan  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jun-14-10 07:26 PM
Original message
A Polite Request to All OP Posters...
 If you post a long quoted passage from some other source that might be misconstrued as a mindless attack on the Obama administration or as a supportive statement about someone like Sarah Palin, please clarify your position.

Either in the OP or in the first reply to that OP, please write a couple of paragraphs laying out your opinion of the quoted matter, and give us an idea of why you posted it. You may think that everyone knows that you are a staunch Democrat and a supporter of liberal and progressive viewpoints, but that is not necessarily the case. You may think that everyone on DU knows your screen name and can puzzle out your reason for posting some material that might be misconstrued. That's unlikely, too.

Odds are that the majority of people reading your OP has no idea who you are or what your prevailing political opinion might be. Odds are that you're not quite as famous as you think you are here on DU.

So, please clarify your OPs. Don't just plop a big pile of controversial text on us, then leave us to figure out why you posted that mess. It's not fair. Please tell us why you posted that block of text, and what you think of what you posted. Assume that nobody knows who you are and what you believe. That's a good assumption, because, in most cases, it's absolutely true.

Thanks!
 

He gets some kiss-my-ass responses-

flyarm  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jun-14-10 07:36 PM
Response to Original message
1. can you not just read what you want to read and stop making new rules on your own? 


dionysus  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jun-14-10 07:45 PM
Response to Reply #1
9. from the crew that likes to complain about imaginary censorship, you have no problem telling people
 to shut up, do you?
 
HughMoran  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jun-14-10 09:40 PM
Response to Reply #11
48. Yeah you did
 The "stop telling me to shut up" folks are almost continuously telling people to shut up. It would be laughable if I didn't know you were serious.
 
notadmblnd  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jun-14-10 07:39 PM
Response to Original message
2. When you start your own blog and have 100,000 + members
 you get to make the rules. Until then, hide the ones you don't like.

proud2BlibKansan  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jun-14-10 08:07 PM
Response to Original message
21. Unrec cause you don't own this website and can't make the rules

So there!

demwing  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jun-14-10 07:43 PM
Response to Original message
7. When You Join a Democratic/Progressive Forum
 Edited on Mon Jun-14-10 07:44 PM by demwing
Only THEN Can You Post Your Own Opinions!

Oh...wait. uhm.

Nevermind 

William Z. Foster (1000+ posts)      Tue Jun-15-10 05:16 AM
Response to Reply #27
96. it was a warning
 The message is quite clear - any article posted that is critical of the administration in any way may be construed - by you, by others? - as an attack on Obama, as a promotion of Palin, and people should put in a couple of paragraphs professing loyalty to the administration at the beginning of any such posted articles, or prepare to be subjected to the various accusations you hinted at in your post.

People have two choices - give a loyalty oath at the beginning of any article that MIGHT be seen as critical of Obama, or be seen and treated as a Palin promoter.

Disgusting.

And guess who shows up?

Skinner ADMIN  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jun-14-10 08:13 PM
Response to Original message
26. I'm puzzled by the indignant responses you are receiving.
 Everyone knows you're not an administrator, and you're not making the rules.

Giving people some information about your motivation for posting just seems like common courtesy and common sense. Lord knows, I would prefer to read a hatchet-job about President Obama if it was preceded by the sentence "Look what that asshole Jonah Goldberg is saying about President Obama" as opposed to "I'm really likin' the steady stream of insightful political analysis from the misunderstood Jonah Goldberg!"

spoony (1000+ posts)      Tue Jun-15-10 04:19 AM
Response to Reply #26
82. It's the assumption about shadowy ulterior motives that 
 the OP, and you, are operating under that is offensive to the posters responding to this thread. Note the particular TYPE of post that you both want clarification about. It singles people out based on the wearying "hater" tripe that has made DU so paranoid lately.
 

Skinner ADMIN  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jun-15-10 02:13 PM
Response to Reply #82
105. I was hoping someone would try this angle. Let me be clear:
 Edited on Tue Jun-15-10 02:15 PM by Skinner
If someone posts a hatchet-job about Barack Obama from the likes of Jonah Goldberg, you're ******* right people are going to wonder about your motives.

If anyone here thinks that's outrageous, then you need to take a good hard look at yourself. If you suddenly find yourself buying the snake-oil that conservative assholes like Jonah Goldberg are selling, then there is a good chance that you are utterly lost to the dark side.

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend.

You sure told them...again. 

spoony (1000+ posts)      Tue Jun-15-10 03:04 PM
Response to Reply #105
113. That certainly wasn't my "angle"-- What percentage of the posts attacked as "hate"
 are from (font size 400) JONAH GOLDBERGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!! (/font size 400)

Posts are dismissed, and often deleted or locked, for nothing more than being critical of Obama. One was just locked because the criticism was from an item a few months old, as if that makes it unfit for viewing.
 

MrScorpio  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jun-14-10 09:42 PM
Response to Original message
50. There are plenty of folks around here who don't know who I am
 So, you're giving some great advice there
 

They know, Woody, they just don't give a shit what you have to say.

And on and on....

[chitownchica]

It's getting interesting over there between the syncophants and super syncophants

[kenth]

 

Those hydrocarbons in the gulf are eating away at Obama's styrofoam columns.

[BlueStateSaint]

Couldn't $kinner's post be described as an anti-Semitic attack on Jonah Goldberg?

[Karin]

Seems like $kimmer has a bug up his ass about Jonah Goldberg.  I absolutely ADORE Jonah Goldberg.  Every time I read one of his articles, I end it thinking "hit the nail on the head once again." 

[jukin]

I love girl fights!

[Ballygrl]

They're really fighting a lot over there, they have the Presidency, the Senate and the House and they're still miserable.

[kenth]

They're really fighting a lot over there, they have the Presidency, the Senate and the House and they're still miserable.

Yeah, it's great, ain't it? 

[Ballygrl]

Yeah, it's great, ain't it? 

Oh yeah!

I remember years ago people saying to Rush when Bush was elected, how would he have a show with Clinton being gone and Rush said there's always going to be Democrats to make fun of. When Obama got elected and the Democrats had all 3 major positions leftists thought conservatives would be miserable, I was like everything is in your hands now, we'll see how well you do, and there'll be plenty to laugh about, and let's just say the Democrats haven't disappointed when it comes to amusing me. Who would've thought the meltdown would come so soon.

[AllosaursRus]

Oh yeah!

I remember years ago people saying to Rush when Bush was elected, how would he have a show with Clinton being gone and Rush said there's always going to be Democrats to make fun of. When Obama got elected and the Democrats had all 3 major positions leftists thought conservatives would be miserable, I was like everything is in your hands now, we'll see how well you do, and there'll be plenty to laugh about, and let's just say the Democrats haven't disappointed when it comes to amusing me. Who would've thought the meltdown would come so soon.

Hell, Rush's subscription rate went up like 10% when O'bummer got appointed!

[BlueStateSaint]

Hell, Rush's subscription rate went up like 10% when O'bummer got appointed!

I think you mean his subscription numbers.  Then again, he is a capitalist, so I would be surprised if he didn't raise his subscription rates.  And his people would gladly pay them.

[AllosaursRus]

I think you mean his subscription numbers.  Then again, he is a capitalist, so I would be surprised if he didn't raise his subscription rates.  And his people would gladly pay them.

Yep numbers. I meant the rate of people subscribing on average, is up over last year.

[VelvetElvis]

Seems like $kimmer has a bug up his ass about Jonah Goldberg.  I absolutely ADORE Jonah Goldberg.  Every time I read one of his articles, I end it thinking "hit the nail on the head once again." 

Effect, meet Cause.