I'm officially disgusted with DU

[dlwickham]

I alerted on this post this morning

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6737717

the "judges" in their infinite wisdom decided to leave the post up

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

YOUR COMMENTS

insulting Hillary supporters and insulting Hillary herself

JURY RESULTS

A randomly-selected Jury of DU members completed their review of this alert at Thu May 28, 2015, 06:49 AM, and voted 3-4 to LEAVE IT ALONE.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: seriously
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: OTT nasty attack on fellow DU members.
Seriously, you and some others who can't seem to keep their loathing in check, need to dial it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: I thought it was supposed to be the Republicans who were smearing Sanders hence this comment is valid.
If you (as a Clinton supporter) are saying that Clinton (and/or) supporters are behind it then the comment
has now become valid in that respect too.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Claiming that a DEMOCRATIC candidate for the DEMOCRATIC nomination is a Republican is WAY over the top.

[Fred Sanders]

1. DU is under a stealth attack by comments dividing the candidates into Good versus Evil, a very

Republican mindset.

And so many prefer to pretend it is not happening, lots of Recs for lots of OP's attacking Clinton, far fewer than attacking Republicans.

Mission Being Accomplished.

Supporting your candidate can only mean one thing.....set up an armed camp, exclude all that are not Pure, and start flinging crap into any other camp.

[Adrahil]

15. I completely agree. n/t

[leftofcool]

2. Almost all of Bernie supporters comments will make it past a jury.

The TOS does not appear to apply to them. It is going to be a long primary season, buckle up.

[hrmjustin]

3. This is what DU is now. They think we are Dinos and don't try to hide it anymore.

[Cha]

12. Called the Admins Dinos, too.. and, their "candidate is a republican". As if. They have no

filter over their ugly insults and get away with it.

I'd like to say what I think of those kind of supporters but I would get a hide. Just know that I can't even look at Bernie's pic without thinking of their ugliness.. it's so pervasive.

Poor Bernie.. it's not his fault that he's represented so poorly on DU by these kind of supporters calling us "barely dems" and "Hillary a republican". So, ignorance is allowed stand. Got it!

[hrmjustin]

16. Their abuse of skinner is heartbreaking.

[okasha]

17. Skinner has the power of the boot.

Making examples of two or three deserving posters might get the jerks' attention.

[hrmjustin]

18. Well he did with eloydude.

Last night he went after skinner.

[okasha]

19. Good. He will not be missed.

[hrmjustin]

20. Nope.

[okasha]

24. A few others need to follow him.

Poor Bernie Sanders is saddled with the initials his parents gave him, but some seem to think they're posting instructions.

[hrmjustin]

25. Yes a few need to learn that their hatred of Hillary wins him no points.

[Cha]

22. "Previously banned.." Go Figure!

[hrmjustin]

27. Yep!

[still_one]

4. The hyperbole is rampant from all sides, and it will get worse at DU. I try

to not engage in the pissing contests, but as an observer it is interesting to watch

[onehandle]

5. The fact that the jury process here is broken is not a secret.

I carefully selected a number of gun trolls who have stalked me for years to blacklist and it helped a lot.

Now I'm thinking of changing it to the 'Not Hillary' Party ringleaders.

Or not. Might be some crossover there.

[hrmjustin]

6. Most of mine are from the religion room wars.

Lol i don't think the anti-Hillary people dislike yet as some of the posters in the religion room do.

[dlwickham]

10. I used to be a mod on here many moons ago

and I can't remember anyone challenging one of our decisions except maybe a handful of times if that

the jury system is horrible

there is no rhyme or reason in their decisions; they disregard long standing rules or completely ignore them

that's one of the reasons I quit donating to DU; why should I bother supporting a site that refuses to enforce its rules

[okasha]

21. The one thing I didn't like about the moderator system

was that it removed whole sub threads. If we could reinstate mods to hide offending posts as we do now, but leave everything else intact, I would be one happy camper.

[dlwickham]

26. I think that was an issue with the site and not the mods

if you removed a post, it would remove the rest of the responses if I remember correctly

[okasha]

30. Exactly.And the responses to the responses, etc.

But now it's clear that it's possiblr to hide only the offensive post.

[dlwickham]

31. but I've always thought that it makes no sense to keep responses up

if the OP is hidden

that's just me

[okasha]

32. Sometimes there's good informatkon

in the responses, or in responses to the responses.

[OKNancy]

7. trying to figure out what started all this... looks to me like the original post was a shit-stirring

post.

Makes us look bad IMO.

I don't agree with it and it is up to us to make sure that fellow Democrats don't go along with smearing ANY Democrat, and that includes Sanders.

I'm not liking some of his supporters, but Sanders himself should be defended, just as Hillary should.

I think this group should stop complaining too. We are better than that. Let the Sanders people be the gossipy mean ones.

Post good stuff about Hillary, post defenses of her.

[Little Star]

13. +1

[workinclasszero]

8. Sorry to say Hillary backers are going to lose every time on these Bernie packed juries

I've been knocked down a couple of times and insulted by jackasses on the jury as well!

We will never get fair treatment on DU, the system is rigged against us when this board is 95% Bernie fans.

I don't know what the answer is. I expect to see calls for banning Hillary supporters entirely from the board as it becomes more and more clear that Hillary will be the democratic candidate late this year and into next.

[DURHAM D]

9. Don't fret. skinner has a secret plan for cleaning DU up. nt

[Agschmid]

33. Like Donald's plan for ISIS...

Kidding...

[Cha]

11. So he's calling out Skinner, too.. for being "barely a dem" and his candidate a "republican".. some

of these Bernie supporters are so mean spirited and give the campaign an ugly stench.

It's like I can't even stand to look at Bernie because of them.. and it's not Bernie's fault.. it's just that they are so prevalently nasty about it. I think Bernie would be appalled.

And, no one called Bernie a Racist.. it's them playing the victim card. Because you know... St Bernie can do no wrong and shit like the alerted post is allowed to stand.

At least the post calling this group a "Toxic Wasteland" was a HIDE.

[William769]

14. This too shall pass.

It's the end game that counts.

[Cha]

23. Eyes on the Prize as we use to say about

Obama!

Really nice to see you, William!

[William769]

28. I have missed you too Cha.

[Cha]

29. Mahalo and Aloha, William!

[Cha]

34. ".. she doesn't give a damn about the sisters, or poc, or LGBTQ." .. this was allowed to stand

just now.. and some wonder why we get so frustrated that we kinda just want to Vent.

I know that isn't true.. not sure if the author of it knows or not.. but if they don't know then they sure are not paying attention. which makes them "dangerously unobservant".. as WC Fields was known to have said at one point to his butler after he saw him come from outside where it was snowing, covered with the white stuff.. Fields said: "snowing then?.." and his man said he hadn't noticed.

That's paraphrasing somewhat because I read that last century but never forgot the dead on quip.