Oscar Wilde wants to remodel Skins's island

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7561158

Oh my.

Well, it's refreshing to go into General Discussions on Skins's island this afternoon, and find that not ALL of the primitive campfires are about topics of which the primitives know naught.

Cyrano  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-24-10 03:37 PM
THE LARGE-PROBOSCISED PRIMITIVE; OSCAR WILDE
Original message

How about if we get rid of both "Recommend" and "Unrecommend?"

Yeah, it's a radical idea. But if you're not radical in one way or another, you're on the wrong site.

Many posts are "Rec'd" because those who write them are always "Rec'd," (e.g. William Pitt and Nance Gregg, among others). And that's not a complaint. Their posts are usually outstanding and should be widely read.

On the other hand, the "Unrec'd" function, (it seems to me), contains a degree of maliciousness. And before you jump all over me, I'm not saying that anyone who "Unrec's" is malicious.

I guess this is just one more plea to DU to drop "Unrec'd." And perhaps also drop "Rec'd." How then to select/highlight outstanding posts? Beats me. Any suggestions?

pecwae (1000+ posts)      Sun Jan-24-10 03:39 PM
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1. OK by me.

I don't see the point of either, but if one goes the other should follow.

treestar  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-24-10 03:40 PM
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2. Good idea 

Since we are allowed to kick without making a comment, that would take care of keeping the issue on the first or second page.

DailyGrind51  (1000+ posts)      Sun Jan-24-10 03:43 PM
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4. Great idea!

tekisui  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-24-10 03:45 PM
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5. They should can the 'unrec' because of all the wasted bandwidth. 

So many posts are about the unrec, OPs and responses. Either complaining about it, or complaining about the complainers.

Maru Kitteh  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-24-10 03:45 PM
A PRIMITIVE FROM NEBRASKA
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6. How about people cease the incessant WHINING about it?

Get up and walk over to your window right now. There's this whole "world" thingy out there.

Cyrano  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-24-10 03:55 PM
THE LARGE-PROBOSCISED PRIMITIVE; OSCAR WILDE
Response to Reply #6

11. We've both been on DU about the same amount of time and our number of posts is similar. (Check our profiles.)

It seems to me that we both spend more time "looking out the window," or pursuing other interests, than we spend on DU.

And do you really find it necessary to use the word "whining" when you read a post with which you don't agree? There's a difference between expressing an opinion and whining.

HughMoran  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-24-10 03:46 PM
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7. Some days Greatest looks like Hatest

I dunno.

last1standing  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-24-10 03:48 PM
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8. What would we do without our popularity contests?

We might have to start reading and considering ideas again. Can't have that.

Quantess  (1000+ posts)      Sun Jan-24-10 03:50 PM
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9. I Love Unrecommend!

Recommend too!

They help separate the wheat from the chaff.

Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-24-10 03:53 PM
#09 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009; THE DEFROCKED WARPED PRIMITIVE
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10. How about we get people to obsess about something else?

Obsessing about getting progressive candidates to win Democratic primaries and then the election sounds like a good substitute.

I just checked; Oscar Wilde's whine is in the "unrec" column right now.

[Oceander]

I didn't realize there were any real radicals on DU, other than the radically stupid, perhaps.

[GOBUCKS]

Well, their obsession with pissing and moaning about unrec is boring as hell, but it's better than another dozen threads on the Supreme Court decision.

[franksolich]

Well, their obsession with pissing and moaning about unrec is boring as hell, but it's better than another dozen threads on the Supreme Court decision.

That's what I thought.

It gets boring when the primitives discuss issues they know nothing about.

The primitives are on a remote island, after all, far away from the real world.

What would the primitives know about anything in the real world?

[The Village Idiot]

The primitives are on a remote island, after all, far away from the real world.

We should send them to a new home:

[Oceander]

We should send them to a new home:

That or we could send that to their homes.

[USA4ME]

They've got to keep the rec/unrec feature.  It keeps them at each others throats, and that's a beautiful thing.

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[The Village Idiot]

That or we could send that to their homes.

We could expand San Francisco Bay without relocating the residents.

[BlueStateSaint]

We could expand San Francisco Bay without relocating the residents.

This suggestion I like.  'Course, with all of the rain out there, God may be doing this right now.

[JohnnyReb]

DUmmies think everyone is like them. A little bad luck and you have only 2 options open.
A: The government should do something for me.
B: Suicide.

[BlueStateSaint]

DUmmies think everyone is like them. A little bad luck and you have only 2 options open.
A: The government should do something for me.
B: Suicide.

I think that the DUmb****s should take option B, myself. 

"Down the road, not across the street."