There was another episode of one of our members having a thread locked for . . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

. . . . . nothing more than defending himself from an attack by some lowlife motherfuckers who live to piss off DUers.

A word to them first, if I may: Being deaf is no excuse for being a lowlife fucking asshole. The two conditions are unrelated.

Many of us here have been harassed by these fuckwads. Mac is but the latest "primitive" to be cut off at the knees when trying to go back at these MOTHERFUCKERS.

If you're going to persist in allowing them to do what they do but prevent us from saying what we wish, why not at least try to get rid of their local alter egos? We can all be grownups and ignore them over in their cave or not as we choose, but you could do your part and smoke out their trolls. You know they exist. They brag about them. You guys have slammed a few DUers on outta here. How about smoking out the roaches from beneath the floorboards? That might make activity such as the recent thread lockings, one by EarlG himself, more tolerable.

[Skinner]

1. Allow me to explain.

As far as I know, there at least a half-dozen discussion forums on the Internet which are exclusively dedicated to whining about Democratic Underground and our members. Why is that? It's because DU is the best liberal discussion forum on the Internet, period.

They post their pathetic, trolly, BS over on those other websites in the hopes that they might get a hit over here on the real website. Maybe, just maybe, someone over on DU will read their lies and get upset about it and maybe even cause a ruckus over on DU.

Let me be clear: I like DUers and I don't like it when any member of this website feels like they have been disrespected -- here or elsewhere. I understand that it does not feel good.

But getting all worked up about it and getting into a board war is EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT. They want DUers to get angry, and they thrive on the attention. It raises them up, and it lowers DU to their level.

The worst thing that can possibly happen to any of these people is to be ignored. It's sad enough to spend your days on a website dedicated to whining about another website; even more so if you know the people on the other website aren't even paying attention.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Make a concerted effort to bust their trolls

Surely there's a way to at least get clues as to who they are.

I suspect many of us have some ideas about who they are.