SKINNER!!!! I have a proposal!

[sasquatch]

That we shut down GD: P for 24 hours and see if this can serve as a "Cooling period" for DU and maybe we can stop this campaign of self destruction that both Obama supporters and Hillary supporters are conducting at DU.

Any proponets of this proposal in the lounge.

[flvegan]

1. I love it that a missing space in "GD: P" triggers the tongue smilie.

[Sugar Smack]

3. Me too! That's why I can't take that forum as seriously as I should.

:bounce:

[flvegan]

4. Hey, no fair editing the OP!

:rofl:

[sasquatch]

7. .

:P
BTW, send me pics ofd TM when her and Midlo visit you so I can use them to get money from matcom.
:D

[Deja Q]

9. Yeah, but who hasn't gotten that one licked?

:P

[Parche]

2. Have Skinner Shut Down Free Republic For 24Hours

Much Better :hi:

[sasquatch]

5. Small steps my friend, small steps

:hi:

[DS1]

6. eh. that entire forum's regulars can all go fuck themselves

nothing they've said makes a damn bit of difference to anyone inside out outside of DU

[GOPisEvil]

12. It's nothing but a bunch of immature, hysterial blather.

[Midlodemocrat]

33. Yup. And fortunately, they don't represent the Democratic Party.

Because if they did, we'd be in serious trouble.

[sasquatch]

38. .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7539300&mesg_id=7539300

[Thurston Howell III]

8. Agreed.

[lost-in-nj]

10. CRAP

I thought we were going to a wedding....

free food and booze is always a GOOD thing here


blah


lost

[Fox Mulder]

11. Nothing anyone says in GD:P will change my mind.

I'm already set in who I'm supporting.

Let everyone in there knock themselves out.

[sasquatch]

13. Yeah but people are now threatening to stay home if their candidate isn't nominated

Can you imagine what will happen because of that?
:scared:

[alarimer]

14. That's what I am afraid will happen.

I suspect a lot of the problem in GDP is caused by trolls. Maybe trolls who flew under the radar for a while and now are just stirring things up.

[Fox Mulder]

18. Yeah, I know.

It's the stupidest fucking thing I've ever seen. So it makes me think those people would rather see John McCain be President over the Dem nominee. Makes me sick.

[Deep13]

19. I'm not doing that.

I haven't missed an election since I started voting 20 years ago (except for a muni election that was a few days after I moved to Cleveland.)

[Omphaloskepsis]

24. About 300 people won't vote..

Democracy will survive.

[Tyler Durden]

28. They've been doing that since they opened that pisshole.

I've been keeping track: one side outnumbers the other with that stupid trash by about 75/25 my last count.

PM if you want to know who. I ain't saying here; I respect the lounge.

OH yes: I will hold my nose and vote for whoever is up there with at D.

[mondo joe]

15. It changed mine.

I went from being neutral to a candidate, to opposing, to feeling outright repulsion.

[sasquatch]

17. Exactly

[Fox Mulder]

20. I felt outright repulsed from one of the candidates since day one.

[Deep13]

21. Well, yeah.

That reminds me. With the Ohio primary over, it's time to put the Ohio flag avatar back up.

[sasquatch]

25. What was up their?

[Deep13]

36. Hillary's warm smile. nt

[Deep13]

16. If the antagonism is not contained in GDP, it will spill into the sane parts of DU.

:scared:

[sasquatch]

22. But then we can lock it

I'd like to see them try to argue in code or indirect referrences or something like that.

[Guava Jelly]

23. GD:P could use a digital enema.

Bunch of dirty assholes over there..

[DarkTirade]

26. I am firmly against that idea.

Keeping the crazies locked away in one place has kept the rest of DU relatively clean. If you shut down GD-P, it'll all spill over to the rest of the site.

[sasquatch]

27. Not really, we'll just lock their threads then

:)

[Tyler Durden]

29. Hasn't worked yet.

They have shit all over every rule of the board, and no one has stopped them. Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Bigotry of every type, calling out....

What makes you think if they close the pest hole that anyone on another forum will stop them?

Let them rot in their oubliette.

[DarkTirade]

30. It's funny, I managed to go into GD

and look around, post, ect. without once being called and/or accused of horrific things or seeing things that make me cringe. Something I never could have done before the worst of the crop had been shuffled off into GD-P.

[Tyler Durden]

32. Exactly my point.

Am I suggesting that certain behavior is tolerated in areas where Primary posting is allowed (now in GD-P)?

Well...yes.

Am I suggesting that certain behavior would re-surface in other areas should "Thunderdome" be closed or whatever?


Well...YES.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

31. How about a separate room for such activities...

Call it "The Ring" and allow each poster 10 rounds of threads in which to slug it out.

[Orsino]

34. I prefer to let frightened individuals take their own 24-hour breaks.

Nothing's really getting destroyed but the peace of mind of people who choose to read posts there.

[SoCalDem]

35. Pass the crack pipe , please

:rofl:

[sasquatch]

37. Who do you think I am, Midlo?

:hide: