poll: does the DUmpster affect the primitives on Skins's island?

[franksolich]

Time for the once-quarterly, now-half yearly, annual poll to determine the effectiveness of the DUmpster.

Does the DUmpster affect the primitives, affect what they say and how they say it?

Based upon observations while moling, I'm now convinced the existence of the DUmpster is a bane to the primitives.  I used to think the opposite; that the primitives didn't care what the DUmpster said about them.

Of course, for the primitives who don't like the DUmpster, there's an easy alternative.

Ignore us.  Don't pay us any attention.  Stop coming here.

And besides, it's rude of primitives to be snooping around in something that's not their business.

When one eavesdrops, one loses the right to be indignant about what one overhears.

[Dori]

I think some of them are affected and it's a good thing, like a public service.  Some of them need to be reminded that the interweb can be a dangerous place to share their most intimate thoughts.  Just think how many DUmmies we've saved from the black helicopters.   

[Chris_]

I think some of them are affected and it's a good thing, like a public service.  Some of them need to be reminded that the interweb can be a dangerous place to share their most intimate thoughts.  Just think how many DUmmies we've saved from the black helicopters.   

But we don't want to save them.

[Tucker]

Not just yes but hell yes.

[dane]

When I lurked here and posted there, I'd come here to read the responses to get inspiration for picking on some of the DUmmies.

Because I enjoyed poking at the hive, I could find the more poke-worthy DU threads already being discussed here, and it saved having to search for them.

And then, after only 7,000+ posts, they found me.  My next incarnation was only about 500.

So I think that many of them are not as open as they used to be, and that's a disappointment

[EagleKeeper]

I voted yes and it's a bad thing.

We have had an impact as have other sites, but I think it would be a healthier thing if the DUmmies would speak their mind.

All of them...just look at the big guy, nutcase nadin, themastersnemesis.

Although, I don't see an alternative, they must be made fun of. When your enemy is making a mistake, don't interrupt them.

[BlueStateSaint]

I voted yes and it's a bad thing.

We have had an impact as have other sites, but I think it would be a healthier thing if the DUmmies would speak their mind.

All of them...just look at the big guy, nutcase nadin, themastersnemesis.

Although, I don't see an alternative, they must be made fun of. When your enemy is making a mistake, don't interrupt them.

Agree 100%, EK.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I went with 'not sure.'  It does affect some of them, but in both good and bad ways.  A lot of them are just oblivious to not only CC and CU, but reality in general, the KKKlams, for instance.

On the good side, some tiny few of them gradually become aware of how stupid their fellow idiots are thanks to the ridicule heaped on them here, and that's good because it represents a dawning of awareness that may eventually lead to growing up.  Others get incredibly paranoid and even crazier than they were already by knowing they are under external scrutiny, and anything that marginalizes and isolates them more is generally a good thing.

On the bad side, the consciousness of external scrutiny leads many of them to adopt a bunker mentality that prevents the rest of the few salvageable ones from ever coming around to adulthood, and leads to a cultish SS-like loyalty to the Dems and fanaticizes them more than they already were, ProSense for instance.

[tanstaafl]

I voted YES, and it's a good thing.

Even though it screws up the study of these creatures, there is a certain amount of satisfaction when one of them stops sniffing his partners pits long enough to blurt out "OMG!!! the Cavers are amongst us!!!" Then start whining about someone's mole serving on juries, hosting groups, infiltrating the benighted MIT or otherwise just screwing with them.

Bodacious.

I may, or may not, have a mole at the dump. I have several computers, travel around the country a lot. The opportunity is certainly there. I have been aware of their existence since at least 2001. It's even possible I have met a few of them.

But, alas. I feel the same about them as when asked to identify the spider I just stomped on.

It's a dead spider.

[fatboy]

My vote is yes and it's a good thing. Personally I don't care what the DUmmies think or do and say. I believe that there are some who post really crazy stuff simply in an effort to see it commented on right here. No matter what, I sense a paranoia over there because they know that we conservatives are thicker than fleas in their little world and they don't know who to trust.

Today, as I survey the liberal landscape over at yonder DUmp, I'm struck by the vast number of set mole traps looking to out some uneducated lousy freeper troll.

[jb2u11]

I voted Yes and It's a bad thing.

For years I have been amused by their total lack of common sense.  With a site like this pointing out their stupidity I think it often tempers what they say, thus less entertainment. 

They are like wild animals in a zoo, they aren't really allowed to be wild and though we can see them and observe them, they don't do everything they would normally do in the wild.

[landofconfusion80]

Yes, and inciting paranoia amongst the mentally unstable is never a bad thing.  they can't hide their crazy forever anyways, and sometimes when it does come out, it's a spectacular explosion that rivals any 4th of july fireworks

[USA4ME]

Yes, bad thing.

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[DefiantSix]

I'm coming to the opinion that their awareness of the anthropologic observation blind is neither a good nor bad thing, as it doesn't cause them to cease performing any of the remarkable behaviors being observed. (As much as they might tell one another "shh! shh! shh: they're watching us", none of them have the impulse control necessary to refrain from behaving like a "savage" Proglodyte while they're under observation. )

As such - since there was no "Yes, and it's neither good nor bad" - I voted Yes/Good.

[franksolich]

I voted Yes and It's a bad thing.

For years I have been amused by their total lack of common sense.  With a site like this pointing out their stupidity I think it often tempers what they say, thus less entertainment. 

They are like wild animals in a zoo, they aren't really allowed to be wild and though we can see them and observe them, they don't do everything they would normally do in the wild.

Yeah, they're not as uninhibited, as honest as they used to be, before they knew the DUmpster existed.

That's why another long-time member and I have always argued for making the DUmpster a closed forum, so the primitives would mind their own business and not eavesdrop on what we're saying about them.

That however's not going to happen, because the general public demands that the DUmpster remain an open forum, available for all to read, and of course the DUmpster serves as a public service for the Good of Humanity.

But just so everybody's aware of that which the anthropologist Margaret Mead observed more than eighty years ago; when primitives become aware they're being observed, they change their behavior.

[Duke Nukum]

Yes and being an optimist I'm going to say it is a good thing.

[GOBUCKS]

They are like wild animals in a zoo, they aren't really allowed to be wild and though we can see them and observe them, they don't do everything they would normally do in the wild.

That analogy is exactly right. I, for one, much prefer the old style zoos, where the animals are confined behind bars in small cages. They don't act at all wild, just pacing back and forth all day, but you get a good close look at them.

If I want to see them acting wild, I'll watch National Geographic Channel. In the new zoos, you're lucky to see the tip of a tail a hundred feet away. Wasted admission.

Same thing at the DUmp. I could not care less if they're affected by our attention.

[EagleKeeper]

But just so everybody's aware of that which the anthropologist Margaret Mead observed more than eighty years ago; when primitives become aware they're being observed, they change their behavior.

Yeah, my cat has learned that.

When feeding time draws near she pierces my head with a lidless, remorseless gaze.

[Ptarmigan]

I think it depends.

[redwhit]

Had to go with not sure simply because so few care about what the outside world thinks except to berate others for having the wrong opinion.  On the other hand, there are fewer than ever these days, so there doesn't seem to be as much silliness to go around as before.

[BlueStateSaint]

Yeah, my cat has learned that.

When feeding time draws near she pierces my head with a lidless, remorseless gaze.

Cats have seen Star Wars (unlike the Chinese, in a thread elsewhere in the DUmpster), and use the 'Jedi Mind Trick' on their staff.  Oreo tries this every day.  I tell her to wait.  It works, most of the time, and she gets fed when it's the proper time.

[I_B_Perky]

I voted yes and it is a good thing. Nothing better than having some dummie's world view turned upside down and inside out. They then realize how impotent they really are and it stirs them up even more.

That, my friends, is a very good thing.   

[USA4ME]

We go there and laugh, they come here and seethe in anger that we're laughing at them. That's the way it's always been and it will never change. Just like their constant stupidity when it comes to the issues and the consequences of their foolish notions never changes.

But they do alter their views based upon us reading their board. They used to openly say things like "we need to kill all conservatives." Now, they have to water it down. It was better when we were undiscovered, but that only lasted a few months, and they've been on guard ever since.

As is the case, their viewpoints are irrelevant to what happens in the real world. But they believe they matter, which means they'll continue to say stupid things. It just won't be as open as it was at the beginning. But that's water under the bridge now.

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[BannedFromDU]

     Do we affect the DUmmies? I am reminded of a cruel but funny saying:

     I don't hate you because you're fat. You're fat because I hate you.

[franksolich]

We go there and laugh, they come here and seethe in anger that we're laughing at them. That's the way it's always been and it will never change. Just like their constant stupidity when it comes to the issues and the consequences of their foolish notions never changes.

But they do alter their views based upon us reading their board. They used to openly say things like "we need to kill all conservatives." Now, they have to water it down. It was better when we were undiscovered, but that only lasted a few months, and they've been on guard ever since.

As is the case, their viewpoints are irrelevant to what happens in the real world. But they believe they matter, which means they'll continue to say stupid things. It just won't be as open as it was at the beginning. But that's water under the bridge now.

I do believe ^^^that's the best analysis of the current situation.