DUmmies are keeping the zoo keepers busy.

[thundley4]

EarlG ADMIN  (1000+ posts)             Mon Dec-06-10 11:25 PM
Original message
The moderators are very busy at the moment
   
so I thought I would post a quick reminder of how you can make their lives easier.

1) Blunt, even harsh criticism of President Obama and the Democrats is permitted here. But as angry as you may be feeling, try to avoid using crude insults to describe the President, such as calling him a bastard, or an asshole, or saying "**** Obama," because the moderators will have to go and delete your post.

2) Post messages about the issues, not about other DU members. You all know personal attacks are not permitted, and if you're wondering why the moderators aren't deleting every personal attack on the message board it's because THEY CAN'T KEEP UP. Please do us a favor and stop personally attacking one another.

3) The same thing goes for OPs about other DU members. If you start a thread about DU members, the moderators will likely have to go and lock it. So please don't do that.

4) As I mentioned, you are already permitted to criticize the Democrats in harsh terms. But there are limits. Calling Obama a "Manchurian candidate," suggesting that he should be impeached, or comparing him to Hitler, goes too far and might even get you banned. If you look around you'll see that we are permitting plenty of strong criticism. Don't feel like you have to one-up everybody else.

5) If you want to vote for a third party, that's your business. But please don't bother posting about it here, because the moderators will just have to go and delete your post.

Thank you for listening. We are all trying to muddle through this as best we can. Now please carry on.

EarlG
DU Admin

PS. If you want to know more about the DU rules and how we enforce them, just click "Alert" on this post and you'll see a list of rule violations. If you click the little (?) next to each one you'll see a broader explanation. Do me a favor though and don't click the "Submit" button or you'll completely defeat the purpose of this post 

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[delilahmused]

Leftist diversity and free speech strikes again!

Cindie

[true_blood]

H5 for the title of the thread. EPIC!

[DumbAss Tanker]

Leftist diversity and free speech strikes again!

Cindie

Yeah...their definition of diversity, which unfortunately the Government pretty much follows, is 'People who look different but all think exactly alike.'  Well...THEY call it thinking, it looks more like 'obeying' to me.

[Karin]

They may as well just throw up their hands at that "no personal attacks permitted" rule, because that's all the DUmmies do.  They may as well just throw all the rules out the window and go out for a stiff drink.  What's the use?  I know that's what's I'd do. 

[BlueStateSaint]

go out for a stiff drink

Karin, this is how a lot of the DUmmies would interpret that:

go out for a stiff dink

[zeitgeist]

H5 for the title of the thread. EPIC!

May I recommend a melody to go along with it? Crank up a classic...........

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YKYvCU4Wl0[/youtube]