Here's one thread on the same topic, that ended up being even longer, until it was shut down:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027690674Betty Karlson (5,254 posts) Thu Mar 17, 2016, 02:32 AM
Dear Skinner, when may we expect Manny Goldstein back?
This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by In_The_Wind (a host of the General Discussion forum).
Now that "purgatory" is being emptied, how about some even-handedness and bring back valuable contributors like Manny?
173 replies, 2330 views
Just immediately before the lock:
Amimnoch (1,630 posts) Thu Mar 17, 2016, 07:41 AM
164. Reasons as stated by Skinner.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12599266#post1
We have not banned any long-term members this election cycle...
...for simply stating an intent to personally not support the Democratic nominee in the 2016 general election.
In the case of both L0oniX and MannyGoldstein, they engaged in advocacy. L0oniX posted an online petition so other people could pledge to withhold their support from the eventual nominee if their favored candidate did not win. And MannyGoldstein very clearly advocated that other DU members withhold their support from the nominee if their favored candidate did not win. As far as I can tell from the linked posts that have not been self-deleted, MaggieD did not do that. She stated her personal intent but did not expressly advocate.
I'm sure you would agree that we do not want to ban everyone from DU who states a personal intent not to support the eventual nominee. As you yourself pointed out, surely most of such comments should be taken with an enormous grain of salt. And furthermore, such banning a would overwhelmingly target the supporters of one candidate over the other, to the tune of about 150 to 1.
As for NYC_SKP, I know that there have been instances where the c-word was used on DU. But I really have to draw the line at letting people call one of our presidential candidates that word. Same with calling Bernie Sanders the k-word or Barack Obama the n-word.
Yeah, Skippy actually got less than what he deserved, for being such a rectal aperture.
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Anyway.
There was something about this thread that grievously disturbed me when I first read it last night.
"Betty Karlson."
"Betty Karlson."
That's a primitive screen-name easy to remember, even with only a modest 5,254 posts.
I consider myself reasonably competent at knowing the primitives. Until last night, I'd never in my life seen this particular primitive, and remember, that's a name easy to remember.
There seems to be a lot of heretofore-never seen primitives with a few thousand posts, coming out of the woodwork. Where are they coming out of? Who are they? Real or fake?
