Porn And Penn... Top Trending Threads At DU...

[WillyT]

:shrug:

Not unimportant by any means... but... I don't know...

Maybe a diversion ???

:shrug:

And yeah... we can all multi-task...

Just don't want to see DU become Jerry Springer...

:hide:

[JohnnyLib2]

1. Where's the porn?

[madinmaryland]

10. If you fly RyanAir you will be able to see some!!

:P

[JohnnyLib2]

17. Slainte'!

:toast:

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Raped children are now a diversion on DU...?

That's sick.

[WillyT]

4. Well... Not Exactly What DU Was Built For...

Although you are welcome to discuss it... but...

The power structure that allows the ignoring of out and out CRIMES by the high and mighty, will only be cured when the laws are applied to ALL.

:shrug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. This is General Discussion. I did not know that you WillyT made the rules.

:shrug: I'm all for this discussion. That so many relegate it to something "shiny" makes me want to vomit. :shrug:

[WillyT]

12. Sorry About That...

But I DO make the rules...

:evilgrin:

:rofl:

:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. Then it is up to us to put you in your place and not follow them.

I will continue to talk about the years of rape that these children were subjected to...whether you like it or not. Take it up with the Admins. :hi:

[pscot]

3. Jerry Springer is a great American

And I hope you're wearing your asbestos drawers.

[WillyT]

5. Never Leave Home Without Them...

:evilgrin:

:hi:

[seabeyond]

6. i think what happened at penn is a pretty huge social issue in our society today

and personally, i think it feeds off the pornification of the u.s. in the last decade and peoples ability to excuse, dismiss, make jokes about, walk away from, allow

[Swede]

7. Or maybe it's the music,video games,comic books...................

This is as old as time,the powerful abuse the weak.

[seabeyond]

11. media does effect how we think and behave. are you going to argue otherwise? if so, what is the

harm in fox news. why do they spend so much on commercials. i think it is silly to suggest what we are fed does not effect us.

we seem to say on the one hand, people allow media to control them but when it doesnt fit our agenda we argue that it has no influence on us.

[Swede]

13. So let's ban it all.

[seabeyond]

18. who said anything about fucking banning. geeez, this argument must be one extreme or the other

in dealing with fox, is there ANY other solution besides simply banning fox. you really cannot come up with anything else but banning?

i guess you are acknowledging that i am correct that what media does, influences us.

how about education. recognition. factual information. discussion.

can we do any of that stuff without banning it all. or pretending it doesn't effect us.

[Swede]

19. I was being ironic.

[seabeyond]

22. hm. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

30. I'm reasonable. I don't think we should ban Catholicism or put all anti-sex authoritarians in jail

but I DO think the leaders, like the Pope, should be arraigned on international criminal conspiracy charges.

[Warren DeMontague]

29. Right. And If Larry Flynt had been running the Vatican for the past 50 years

your argument might begin to make coherent sense.

[Poll_Blind]

8. The way I look at it, DU is like a trading floor, like a stock trading floor of ideas. With...

...everyone shouting, making bids, over-valuing some stocks (subjects) and devaluing others. Some people spend all their time in the silver pit, some over in wheat futures, some just ambulate as world news moves them to and others, hoping to sow chaos, randomly drift from place to place just for the sport of it.

The only control over that (oversimplified) dynamic is the administrative moderation and the administrative moderation has been such that that is the dynamic which exists today.

In short, the best way to enjoy DU is to enter the forum of your choice and aggressively use the Hide Thread function until mostly just the topics you're interested in remain. I have been doing this for weeks now and while it is one hell of a chore, you might try it to help cut down the signal-to-noise ratio.

There will be a 1:1 or 2:1 ratio of hidden threads to threads clicked on out of interest if you're doing it right.

PB

[Aerows]

14. It's a symptom of a deeper problem

Major corruption, covering up of horrible crimes because someone is powerful.

[Angry Dragon]

15. The Penn State affair is a symptom of the disease

that infects this country and other parts of the world

The only way to stop things like this is to stop the disease

[PCIntern]

16. Penn STATE, not Penn...

big big diff.

[melissaf]

21. THANK YOU for pointing this out.

[seabeyond]

23. which one is the technical school and hard to get into. my nephew goes to penn state i think.

but i didnt know there were two.

[melissaf]

25. Penn State is the behemoth university

that focuses on football, engineering, and is basically in the middle of nowhere. Penn is short for The University of Pennsylvania, which is a private, ivy-league school in Philadelphia. If it was super-hard to get into, your nephew is probably going to Penn, not Penn State.

[seabeyond]

26. ya. probably. thanks. i have thought al day he was in the middle of this mess

bet you are right.

[quinnox]

20. I've been hiding the threads left and right

it is possible to get rid of all the threads having to do with Penn state news story, fortunately. The story will die down in a day or two, as these things usually do and the next "very important" news story breaks from our noble media.

[petronius]

27. God, I hate that word: 'trending' - it may even be worse than 'meme'

Who came up with it, anyway? :shrug:

[MisterP]

28. I KNOW: Rove just admitted to conducting astral projecting back to 1855 to get Harrisburg to make a

state U, and everyone in OWS went home because of porn and Penn

everything in the cosmos revolves around the day-to-day or week-to-week changes to DU's front page :P