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In reply to the discussion: Is there trolling going on here in regards to Obama? Like [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)aware that Democrats on this board believe different things--and often don't state those differences purely in an intellectual manner.
Perhaps an example will help:
A brand new newbie showed up on a thread about Social Security, aka OASDI, telling posters to keep their hands off the rich man's wallet because he (the rich man) was tapped out. (How's that for logic: The rich man has no money remaining.)
Other posts by this dear poster on that thread argued how unfair old age, survivors and disability insurance was to the people who paid the most into OASDI because they get the least out of it. (His lie about OASDI, not mine.)
A majority of the jury voted, correctly, IMO, to hide the post and mentioned MIRT, also correctly in my opinion. Indeed, it impressed me how fast MIRT banned the poster. However, one or two jurors voted to the leave the post on the ground this should be a discussion, not a hide.
In my view, that may be a good comment for someone serving on a Discussionist jury, but the poster was not even simply hideworthy. He was ASAP banworthy.
And that was not the only time I have see that kind of comment on a post that I considered unquestionable hideworthy, if not banworthy, such as referring to poor people as trailer trash. (That one did not got hidden, on the grounds jurors were impatient with political correctness, or some such. And I thought that a mistake.)
If I wanted to be on board where something like my examples are considered mere topics of discussion, I would post at FREEP or Discussionist or boards like them. I post here because I got beyond tired of such discussions after posting on mixed boards for years. If this is not my sanctuary from them, then I have none.