Are the number of alerts from individual DUers tracked?

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True Dough (28,407 posts)

Are the number of alerts from individual DUers tracked?

Call me crazy (you'd be at least half right), but I suspect this wonderful community of ours has at least a couple of high-volume "alerters."

Is anything done to monitor how frequently people send alerts and the outcomes of those alerts? Are warnings ever issued to people to cool their jets with their itchy alert trigger fingers?

rampartd (6,582 posts)
1. they might not be here in good faith?

True Dough (28,407 posts)
2. This is entirely possible, IMO.
But who I am to judge (unless I'm part of a jury, of course)?

Seriously, I do think a few take pleasure in attempting to "disrupt."

https://democraticunderground.com/125630521

 Talking about Itchy and the DUmp is gross.

[ADsOutburst]

Democrats are quick to point out any perceived offense in the real world. Why would DU be any different?

[SVPete]

1. IMO, a mole would try to maintain a very unexceptional profile - not too visible, posts or Reports, and not too invisible. So if there are Frequent-Reporters on DU, those members probably are not moles or trolls.

2. Historically - the Reign of Terror, Hitler's SA purge, Stalin's purge of "Old Bolsheviks" - lefties turn on each other in purity and power witch hunts. If there are Frequent-Reporters on DU, ordinary DU-folk should fear Proggier-Than-Thou witch hunts. Don't be the first to stop clapping or clap too quietly, Comrade.

[RonE]

So if there are Frequent-Reporters on DU, those members probably are not moles or trolls.

I agree. I imagine them being like that HOA member who constantly checks neighborhood yards for shrubbery violations.

[CollectivismMustDie]

1. IMO, a mole would try to maintain a very unexceptional profile - not too visible, posts or Reports, and not too invisible. So if there are Frequent-Reporters on DU, those members probably are not moles or trolls.

2. Historically - the Reign of Terror, Hitler's SA purge, Stalin's purge of "Old Bolsheviks" - lefties turn on each other in purity and power witch hunts. If there are Frequent-Reporters on DU, ordinary DU-folk should fear Proggier-Than-Thou witch hunts. Don't be the first to stop clapping or clap too quietly, Comrade.

This does, on the other hand, give one some interesting ideas of how one might 'pitch in and help' over there.

 Hypothetically, of course. 

[Old n Grumpy]

I agree. I imagine them being like that HOA member who constantly checks neighborhood yards for shrubbery violations.

So you think I should stop doing that?