I know this poster rubbed some people the wrong way.

[NCTraveler]

Myself included. I also know she has a lot of support around these parts. While I never lost an argument to said individual , they did often post links to great information. I'm always appreciative of that and give thanks where it is due. Nadine has also composed some solid articles at her new outlet.

For her supporters and those who support independent journalism:

https://reportingsandiego.com/2016/07/28/everything-on-the-internet-is-free-until-it-is-not-and-independent-media/

[malaise]

1. Nice

K & R

[elleng]

2. Facts.

[Warpy]

3. She's got a good point

I know the local fishwrap just pulls stories off AP and once in a while some politician's press release will get in there. Rarely will local stories about dull things like city council meetings (that cover stuff that really does affect us) make the news. I imagine short staffing and lousy reimbursement of travel and work overtime are to blame.

I wish she'd come back. She was a great source for information.

[NCTraveler]

4. The things you say do make the news.

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And this could simply be the area I live. Everything is covered by our local big three and our papers. Much of it by independents selling stories.

Your point is not lost on me and I do think we should be supporting independent journalists.

[kestrel91316]

6. She lurks and messages me but doesn't post here anymore.

[kestrel91316]

5. Nadine has always had very thoughtful and intelligent things to say to me in our private messages.

[Duval]

7. To me, also. nt

[Adrahil]

14. Same here. Too bad...

See has embraced the Jackass Radicals.

[seaglass]

29. I think there has been a parting of the ways. n/t

[Adrahil]

30. Haven;t been there for a while.

If that's true, good for her.

[seaglass]

33. Yeah, I'm not sure if she actually left but she was warning about all the hatred on the site and

that it might lead to their demise. That did not go over very well with many of them.

[demtenjeep]

8. I'm good thanks. A hobby blog

isn't every one's cup of tea

[Squinch]

9. Sorry, no.

[pintobean]

10. The word 'intentionally' belongs in that subject line.

[hunter]

11. I've never figured out why Nadine rubs some people the wrong way.

I know damned well why I do.

[calendargirl]

12. Some people or some parrots? nt

[NCTraveler]

15. People. Nt

[G_j]

13. K&R

well worth reading!

[R B Garr]

16. Sorry, but no. Usually I agree with what you post, NC, but this is a no.

I wouldn't sully my browser by clicking on that link.

That poster goes out of her way to make herself part of the story and goes to bizarre lengths to do so. She plays victim far too often to be credible. The way she made herself part of the story after the first BLM activists confronted Sanders by comparing her questioning from a bureaucrat to AA's being shot in the street by cops was just downright freakish. No thanks. That is not "reporting."

I'm only contributing this because she has blamed people here for harassing her (once again the victim) at that link, and I wouldn't give her the hits. Interestingly, she lambasts this website for enforcing standards, but IP bans anyone who posts something she doesn't like at that above "blog". No thanks.

[NCTraveler]

17. She has accused me of stalking, harassing, and being a tool of the right.

She did so in almost every conversation I have ever had with her. That includes conversations where I was holding progressive positions and she was arguing conservative positions.

After I got to know her posts here I found communicating with her to be fun. Initially it was extremely irritating.

I think some of the things you mention are why she is in her current position. Actually, I know it is.

[boston bean]

21. I don't take kindly to posters who call me c...

I hope she never posts here again.

[NCTraveler]

25. She called you what? Nt

[Coventina]

32. I wouldn't miss her either. The one discussion I tried to have with her

she immediately flew off the handle and started using profanities.

She also made no coherent sense.

[Squinch]

53. I found her eternal imagined victimhood to be tedious. And it always involved some unjust

accusation against someone who didn't deserve it.

[anneboleyn]

58. That was my experience, years ago now, with her. The accusations and strange hysteria

were too much for me. She was one of the very few posters I blocked after some bizarre exchanges.

[lillypaddle]

18. Rub some people the wrong way?

She was just about the nastiest poster I ever had occasion to run into.

[radical noodle]

28. I don't trust her

I think she works both sides.

[betsuni]

19. NO! No no no no no no no. Let sleeping beanballs lie.

This is asking for trouble.

[NCTraveler]

20. My op has been up since yesterday. No trouble.

It doubles as a PSA.

[betsuni]

27. Yes, trouble. She gives proofreaders a sick headache and threatens people. Absurd.

[BooScout]

22. Nope....

The bridges have been burned as far as I am concerned.

[snooper2]

23. Some of our good DU writers should help proof read for the site-

snip-

"Those adds are not raking the money in. I suspect some people think that. They works like Google Adds. They pay out a few cents every time people click on them. We will not see any on that until there are $100 collected."

[NCTraveler]

26. I told her I was willing to connect her with an editor.

I really was trying to be helpful as it's clearly necessary. Her message back calling me a bully was wrought with grammatical errors. It was just one more occasion where she made me smile.

[hunter]

41. Oh bother.

English is the most promiscuous language on the planet. Nobody is going to damage English if they don't follow the "rules."

That stuff you learned from your seventh grade English teacher is a guideline, not the law.

I'm much more troubled by incomprehensible garble that follows the rules of English spelling and grammar perfectly than I am by "bad" spelling or grammar.

I encourage people to write first. If grammar and spelling matter it can be fixed later.

[tblue37]

56. FYI, English is not her native language. nt

[randome]

24. Every single post of hers was about her.

But liberally sprinkled with words like "we" and "us" as if to imply she was at the vanguard of some immense team when it was just her writing a blog. The whining about being bullied when she was the one doing the bullying was always too much.

Her conviction that Clinton's statements about her emails were exactly like Watergate was the ultimate in self-serving delusion.

If she somehow learns to communicate more effectively online without the prickliness and self-promotion, I would not mind at all. But I don't think she could do that.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[hunter]

43. Every single post anyone writes is about them.

The neutral dispassionate observer is always a fiction, even in science.

[BainsBane]

46. Not like hers.

[hunter]

47. I haven't pissed off nearly so many people as Nadine has...

... and I can be a literally off-his-meds maniac asshole who has flamed out as a piss-on-guns forum host and on MIRT.

I'm a parrot lover too.

[BainsBane]

50. Many of us have people that dislike us

I certainly do, but we do it in different ways.

[hunter]

51. Is there a right way or wrong way?

[BainsBane]

52. No, my point wasn't that some are inherently worse than others

but that we all have our idiosyncrasies that manifest in different ways.

[randome]

49. That's...an interesting observation.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[Iggo]

31. Not me.

[closeupready]

34. Thanks, I appreciate this. I'll try and donate soon.

K&R

[Codeine]

35. Because nobody else in Southern California reports on wildfires.

Self-congratulatory hobby blog says what?

She's a horrorshow and I do not miss her.

[lpbk2713]

37. It was always helpful to get "up to the moment" reports ...

on traffic jams in San Diego.

When I live in the Tampa Bay area.





I never commeted on that because I didn't want to be regarded as a "bully".

[NCTraveler]

38. Howdy neighbor.

Pinellas here.

[PeaceNikki]

36. LOL

[DanTex]

39. Unfortunately said former DUer is now posting on a hate site dedicated to electing Trump.

[geek tragedy]

42. she's the sanest regular poster over there nt

[DrDan]

44. thats a low bar

[zappaman]

40. Nope. n/t

[BainsBane]

45. God, no.

[Warren DeMontague]

48. Some people here never got out of 7th grade, I think.

I suspect they're profoundly disappointed or take a lot of shit in their actual, real world lives, so they try to pump up their self-esteem by taking it out on strangers.

Frankly, I have little patience for bullies. I don't give a fuck how "deserving" the target supposedly is.

I don't agree with everything that person says, maybe they can be annoying, but a LOT of people here can be annoying, myself included.

But hell, If I wanted to make a list from my perspective of the most annoying people on DU over the past 12 years or so, I don't even think she'd crack the top 10.

[joshcryer]

55. Eh, she lost me with Trump.

Got into fights over Trump and hasn't been the same since. Used to be on the same page and the bullying baffled me. But after being on the receiving end of some really hurtful statements I don't know any more.

[Egnever]

57. I hope she finds something that makes her happy.

Maybe next she will be a rocket scientist!