Here is an example of an obvious attempt to get kicks and alerts on Benie supporters.

[Live and Learn]

Please don't fall for the attempt. I obviously fell for the kick (momentary lapse in judgement) but refuse to do so again. Let the post go where it should.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=793918


Instead post your answers here where they can be discussed sensibly.

[mak3cats]

1. The "Ignore" button is your friend...

And this particular poster was one of the first on my list.

[Live and Learn]

3. i can't wait to use it but for now I need to hear what they are saying.

You know, 'know your enemy'.

Trust me, as soon as the primaries are over, I have a list that I never have to hear from again.

[mak3cats]

4. You are absolutely right about the "know your enemy", but I just don't have the energy for it...

...so I most heartily thank you (and many others that I won't list because I don't want to leave anyone out) who carry the banner for all of us!

[Live and Learn]

7. It is fine to take breaks when needed. Ignore is not a permanent feature.

My other secret is taking frequent breaks to campaign for Bernie on the streets. There are so many (actually fun) opportunities available that to do so that one has to kind of feel sorry for the Hillary supporters that are left with basically posting here to feel worthwhile.

And any Bernie supporter is a banner carrier. Do what you can, it is all Bernie would ask.

[artislife]

13. Yes. This poster should be on everyone's ignore

One of the start of my purge of October. The sheer number of OPs per day made me think they were not legit, but now I just don't care. When I clicked over and saw the OP writer's name, I knew it was BS and not to even read.


Cortisol is a killer, friends. Don't feed it by reading this poster's crap.

[in_cog_ni_to]

23. Paid per post. n/t

[arcane1]

26. Exactly. That's the first person I ever used Ignore on, and I'm glad I did it.

[jeff47]

17. Ignored slurs become true. See: Kerry and swiftboats. (nt)

[monmouth4]

2. Couldn't agree more. n/t

[djean111]

5. Yup.

And if Hillary was such a great choice her fans would not need to stoop to this.
This activity has really been ramping up.
And I honestly don't know what their point is - they surely don't think any of this crap outweighs issues, right?

[Live and Learn]

9. They don't really thinks so, they just look at it as opportunities to lure us in. nt

[demwing]

6. Must have missed that

But then, I've been feeding my ignore list a lot lately...I encourage other to do the same - Makes DU a healthier place.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

8. Bwahahah. That's a funny OP.

ONG, there's a yuuuuuge gulf between Republicans and Hillary'! Sure, because they're ideologues, and she's an incrementalist. She's 'pragmatic' enough to know you have to ease the country into the complete control of corporations, you can't just stage a coup outright, or folks will fight back. You have to let them vote themselves into corporate ownership, a bit at a time, all the while telling themselves that they've 'done right' by 'voting for the lesser evil'.

But to address the main premise - nothing new, same old 'Sanders must suck because his supporters suck'. Not a single substantive policy reason why Sanders is such a horrible candidate, just 'his supporters suck, so he must be a sucky candidate'.

They've got nothing, it's so pathetic.

Wake up and smell the coffee, guys. If your candidate was better, you'd tell us why her policies are better for regular Americans than Sanders' not whine about us. Go ahead, tell us why a crappier, lower minimum wage is better for working people than the higher minimum wage that actual minimum wage workers are fighting for all across the country. Tell us why President Obama had to save her from having a real, principled stand against KXL by nixing it now, before it hurt her too badly. Tell us why it's better that America keeps rattling the saber of war at countries in the Middle East. Tell us why it's better than we do less instead of more when it comes to taking away the powers of the government to spy on Americans, to coordinate law enforcement against peaceful protesters, to demilitarize the police. Tell us why it's better to talk down to black protesters and herd them out of your campaign stops. (Oh wait, they already HAVE been telling us that, that that's the 'right' way to respond to Black Lives Matter protesters...)

Bernie supporters are happy to tell you why his policies are better for regular Americans. Hillary supporters want to pretend that the fact that she's farther right somehow means she'll get good things done for America. Almost everything that's wrong with this country has come at us from the right. Why the hell would any sane, sensible person want to continue moving to the right and think that was a 'good' thing?

[Live and Learn]

10. Great post and worthy of a pro-Bernie OP, itself without the first 2 paragraphs.

That is exactly the kind of positive Bernie stuff we all need to see.

i don't mind kicking and sticking up for Bernie in a pro-Bernie post. at all.

[TacoD]

11. Jury results

On Wed Nov 11, 2015, 07:46 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

Here is an example of an obvious attempt to get kicks and alerts on Benie supporters.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/128072583

REASON FOR ALERT

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

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

Callout OP, in a protected group where the OP being called out cannot respond. More meta from protected groups, this kind of thing should be hidden.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Wed Nov 11, 2015, 07:49 AM, and the Jury voted 1-6 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Protected group members need to make these posts in the protected forum not in public.
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

[Hiraeth]

12. #1 doesn't even know where he is ... derp

[Hiraeth]

14. A suggestion for those who don't want to ignore posters:

The Hide Thread feature also works nicely. If there are certain Subject Lines Scrolling that irritate you just click on the little xbox
and that thread will disappear from the scroll.

Temptation removed. Vanished. Gone. Poof!!

[mak3cats]

34. I took your suggestion, and emptied my Ignore list...

I'd rather know what's going on than not know. Hide Thread is working pretty well; unfortunately, just seeing some posters' names makes me want to retch, but I guess that can't be helped...

[Hiraeth]

36. totally understand. but, this way I know what is going on around here and after all, isn't

that why we are here ... to get more info about what all is going on not, just on DU but, the political world at large which, DU is a small microcosm of a sort.

Cheers and glad you tried it.

[LiberalElite]

15. that guy

has been on my ignore list for some time and will stay there.

[Robbins]

16. I trashed thread and put member on full ignore

not more than attack on bernie supporters.

[PowerToThePeople]

19. Yup, rightwing troll is obvious rightwing troll.

That member has been on my ignore list a while now.

[TBF]

33. Yup, one of the 40 on my ignore list. nt

[pinebox]

20. And once again

I went ahead and posted the truth http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=794296
They hate me XD

[LiberalArkie]

35. They are not worth the effort, I post and left look at the replies by any of them.

Just have to go to that nice calm place where things are very peaceful and nice. And sit back and watch them argue with themselves. Of course on my manic days, things might be a little different.

[winter is coming]

21. Kinda funny they spend so much effort on this.

We're repeatedly told that it'll all be over after Super Tuesday. So why haunt GDP and even this group with such persistence?

[Catherina]

22. Ouch, that poster's on my ignore list and now I just posted in one of his dumb threads

Unfortunately the ignore list doesn't work with internal link in DU threads. Oh well, live and learn but never again.

The good news is that one more of those "I like Bernie but" posters went on my ignore list.

[KoKo]

25. Correction & Apology to poster "Live and Learn" for Mistaking their Post

Last edited Wed Nov 11, 2015, 09:48 PM - Edit history (1)

I alerted the Hosts because I felt your sig line was mocking PPR'd DU'ers with a picture of Hillary not noticing that they were gif.s that morphed into the opposite of what first glance revealed.


Here is the message I sent to the Bernie Group Hosts and I hope you will except my apology for misunderstanding your post and alerting:

----------------------------------

Re: On further long inspection...

> You are correct... The Hillary Photo/gif. slowly morphs into Bernie and the Flyswatter/gif. that smashes LOonix's bug takes awhile watching but it raises up and then eventually releases the fly. In that context the Millie post does make sense as a tribute to NYC_SKP's PPR.
>
> But, damn, it take a long time to sit and watch the the two gif.'s morph and with the link to "Dan Tex's" post trashing Bernie a poster it sure didn't look good. Most of us don't sit and look at SigLine pictures for that long...we go to the post. So, the fault is in my haste... and probably the same with a few others in the thread who seemed to find it offensive...because they didn't wait to watch the gifs. morph through.
>
> I will post an apology to the OP in the thread.
>
> KoKo

[Duckhunter935]

27. Yes he is one of the worst ones

I have seen and should be spoken to. But I am sure the admins will give him a pass.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

28. Are you talking about the OP here?

With the gif of Hillary morphing into Bernie (showing how she's trying to avoid losing support by pretending to be just like him) and the fly swatter gif in which the fly seems to come bursting out through the swatter to show which is stronger?

[Duckhunter935]

30. I am talking about the op linked post

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

31. Ah, ok, that makes more sense. nt

[olddots]

24. I sure hope this place doesn't become Huff Po

Maybe America never had any soul but if it had its loosing it fast .Its Bernie or Tyranny from now on .

[Puglover]

32. Nice avatars.

Last edited Wed Nov 11, 2015, 09:37 PM - Edit history (1)

<sigh> Again, nice avatars. Stupid me didn't see the nuance. Apologies.

[LovingA2andMI]

37. Oh yeah....

The IGNORE button is in full force today. Be aware and watch your sides on the boards today as it appears some type of strategy is in place.

[ieoeja]

38. cali's account is active. Hope she comes back. But wouldn't blame her if she did not. n/t