OK seriously. Can we clean up a little? Company's coming.

[FlyingSquirrel]

1) Hillbots... Obamaborgs... Ixnay.

2) Saying you'll support McCain (or saying "Hill supporters say they'll vote McCain")... Ixnay.

3) Making any blanket statements about opposing candidate's supporters... Ixnay.

4) Constant talk about ignoring, alerting, tombstoning... sheesh. Ixnay. Grow up.

5) Photoshopped pics of opposing candidate... This is not FreeRepublic.

6) Personal attacks, calling people trolls, sockpuppets, etc... Ixnay. Alert quietly if necessary.

7) Kicking or Recommending inflammatory threads... Double Ixnay.

8) Calling for candidate to drop out... Ixnay. Just leads to more inflammatory threads.

9) Inflammatory avatars / sig lines... Ixnay.

10) Knee-jerk reacting... Ixnay. Take a deep breath. Think before posting. Why add to the noise?

Any other suggestions? Many thousands of much smarter people are watching us and not posting. Perhaps it would be a good idea to show a slightly better face of the Democratic Party (that's us) on Democratic Underground to the rest of the country and the world.

[gateley]

1. Ipping-zay my ipp-lay. nt

[HughMoran]

2. We can imagine such a DU

I can't imagine it at this time unfortunately.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. And that company may already be here...

I think your advice is excellent...

Time to clean up, indeed!

We are better than all this trash.

Aren't we?

K&R



:patriot:

[Bongo Prophet]

44. Most of us are, and stay out of the fray for the most part.

Yes, we are here.
Ready to make peace and vote for the nominee.

This is just a children's playground for awhile.
We will take it back soon, I hope.

[babylonsister]

4. Some of us don't need to, and I get tired of lecturing from anyone.

This is the way it is, and hopefully it will be over soon.

[FlyingSquirrel]

8. That's just the way it is

Some things'll never change
That's just the way it is
Ha, but don't you believe them........

[babylonsister]

24. From you? No. nt

[FlyingSquirrel]

26. I'm gonna go sing some karaoke now.

See ya!

:toast:

[Danger Mouse]

5. i wish. i really wish.

[Yael]

6. Onay omray otoshophay?

:cry:

[InsultComicDog]

37. ...

[againes654]

7. Awww but mom

do we have to?????

[InsultComicDog]

35. If I wanted to act like an adult

I wouldn't be here!

[NoBushSpokenHere]

9. Oh but what about my Dead Dog posts? Do they have to Ixnay?

Does the company have a sense of humor?

[FlyingSquirrel]

12. I wrote your dead dog in on my ballot. ;-)

[mikekohr]

49. Would It Be Possible To Quit Slamming Our Fellow Democrats and stop kicking ourselves in the nuts

Just a thought.

mike kohr
-Victory in '08-

[Pringles]

10. Thank you, President Gore. And I mean that.

[Mooney]

11. Can we still make fun of John McCain for being old? n/t

[question everything]

13. Thank you. I think that you pretty much covered everything (nt)

[DearAbby]

14. Is there a Roseta Stone version

of Pig latin?

[tammywammy]

15. I have 2 suggestions

No more talk about a supposed mass ignore list
No more talk about other sites that Hillary supporters from DU go to

[FlyingSquirrel]

17. Big thumbs up to those... very adolescent.

[Whisp]

16. the white gloves are off, some feel like they are fighting for their lives

and many other lives.

hillary is more warmonger than peacemaker. that simple.

[FlyingSquirrel]

18. *sigh*

Oversimplification of opposing candidate... Ixnay.

:-)

[Whisp]

28. Clintons have been at war with Iraq the whole 2 terms.

softening the country up for PissyPants and his cowboy routine.
introduced by Poppy.

[FlyingSquirrel]

Post a thread about it if you're not over your limit

And back it up with facts and links.

[Whisp]

33. huh? like this is breaking news?

the sanctions and bombings of water facilities and infrastructure, etc...
surely you know about that?

[FlyingSquirrel]

47. OH, thanks. Another one: Hijacking threads - Ixnay.

[Joe the Revelator]

19. When the McCain endorsing, kamakazi spoiler drops out

We can play nice. Until then, I'm sorry but no.

[FlyingSquirrel]

20. ...

:banghead:

[Joe the Revelator]

21. I'm sorry I don't agree with you.

[Pringles]

You are making Obama cry.

[readmoreoften]

39. And that's why I voted against your candidate in the primary.

I don't want this party taken over by uncivil thugs.

[Joe the Revelator]

42. If you're basing you vote on DU, you need to turn in you registration card

For real.

[TheDonkey]

22. what about sanctimonious scoldings?

:silly:

[FlyingSquirrel]

23. Once in a blue moon, Ok.

:D

[knight_of_the_star]

25. This all sounds good

Would calling out someone for being out of control and ridiculous still be ok?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. Calling out is against the rules...

Alert is your friend in those cases...

[FlyingSquirrel]

29. Did someone mention rules?

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:toast:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

30. Thank you!

For supplying the necessary details!

:toast:

[emilyg]

31. That will work for mature adults.

[knight_of_the_star]

36. I wonder how many of those are broken every minute right now in GDP

Just looking at all that reminds me how far this particular section of DU has fallen.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

40. no kiddding. about 90% of DU would be banned if they followed all that right now.

n/t

[knight_of_the_star]

41. And I've gotten crap

For posting Fail bombs in threads and in response to posts that are really just ridiculous and immature. At least that isn't rehashing Pastorgate or Snipergate and stirring the pot more, not to mention isn't really launching a personal attack or anything, at least compared to what passes for that in GDP these days.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

43. They're just upset that you're not with the program (being nasty to your opponent)

n/t

[knight_of_the_star]

45. Such a shame that

You'd think they would appreciate some levity, but I guess that's too much to ask of people these days.

[Indiana_Dem]

32. Okay! I switched my avatar like I promised!

Does this look better!? :hi:

[Johnny__Motown]

34. Supporting Leading Democrats Who Praise McCain.... Ixnay

[bhikkhu]

38. K&R, and thanks. About ten of these reminders, kicked regularly

per day should do it.

[crankychatter]

46. You got me squirrely

repost from top ten thread:


I for one am out of the fray... and I will save incendiary language for the more raucus blogosphere. It can be fun and even therapeutic in times of frustration.

When I see lurid, inflammatory, "yellow press" style scandalmongering... it is natural to want to defend the candidate I support and even respond in kind.

But it's too easy and above all, it's counterproductive and a waste of time.

If the OP is asserting that ALL of this sort of campaigning is a function of over-zealous supporters, being duped by the RW spin machine... well I cannot concur in full.

Many supporters are not dupes at all when they use proxies, socks and multiple IDs to boost the nastiest strings to the top here. They are disingenous, because they know these things to be overstated, imbalanced and in some cases, straight from the right wing, LIES. We're not stupid. Sometimes, evidentally, we just don't give a shit. Gaming the board.

I am not going to let this thing break MY "give a shit." YOU do what you want. If you engage in heinous behaviour, don't be asking ME to "play nice" and let bygones be bygones. In fact, don't talk to me at all.

Well that's it... let your yeah be yeah and your nay be nay. I'll keep crackin little jokes and jibes... try not to take myself too seriously either and, occasionally find some common ground with the opposition.

I am nothing, if not teachable.

btw I had know idea Sen. Boxer was such a cutie

[FlyingSquirrel]

48. Still kinda messy around here. nt