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MADem
(135,425 posts)Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)I can't help myself, and there is no 12-step.
This was too funny.. too bad the message was auto removed but you can get the gist.. Troll didn't like the appreciation threads. Just joined July 7 to let us know.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025224982
herding cats
(19,567 posts)If so I now get rugs post!
Cha
(297,629 posts)for rug's post. Thanks
herding cats
(19,567 posts)Cha
(297,629 posts)Tetris_Iguana
(501 posts)They only serve to promote cliquish high school behavior.
But then again 13 is the minimum age here...
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." Kurt Vonnegut
Tetris_Iguana
(501 posts)That is scary indeed.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)No lie. If 13 year olds were this involved in Democratic politics, 2020 could be an epic election.
Now "average mental age" could be another discussion.....
I'd love it if DUers could agree on this simple proposition: Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren may have differences, but we DUers are fighting against John Boehner, Antonin Scalia, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, et. al.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)Fire can warm or burn, and those not close to it can be left in the cold.
Some people; the disheartened ones may need a flame to reignite their passion for the righteous struggle.
Thanks for the thread, Algernon Moncrieff.
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)BainsBane
(53,062 posts)which I think they started as a corrective to. In fact, I know the first one was posted because the OP mistakenly thought a thread calling for someone to be PPR'd was about the person he then posted the thread for.
Which, yes we did.. for you know who but come on..!
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)Wars would be a lot better, I think, if guys would say to themselves sometimes "Jesus I'm not going to do that to the enemy. That's too much."
Kurt Vonnegut
We (you, me, the other thousands of DUers) are supposed to all be here fighting the good fight against the GOP. Instead, we spend a Helluva lot of time being downright nasty and rude to one another (and I plead guilty to this. Sometimes playing smackback gets the best of me in a heated thread).
I, too, hate gravedancing threads.
BainsBane
(53,062 posts)and I can't pretend to be above it all.
Cha
(297,629 posts)a lot. And, for those I don't.. I just don't get on their app threads. Easy.
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)Cha
(297,629 posts)It's been auto removed but you can kinda tell what "Fred M" had to say by the comments of the munchers.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025224982
Hekate
(90,788 posts)Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)Hey..it's the best I can do on short notice.
Now I'll anger Cha and completely undermine my highly scientific poll.
Hekate
(90,788 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)or whether they are genuinely to express appreciation for the person mentioned.
But what do I know. I naively assumed that Quinnox really had accidentally cut his lip.
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)I post a response in a thread, only to find out that there is a dramatic subtext of which I was completely unaware.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Including, of course, this one.
If people want meta back so badly they should march over to ATA and request it. Or rename GD meta.
Otherwise it's gone for a reason.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)so there's no reason to request a separate Meta in ATA. Plus juries generally don't hide appreciations or grave dancing threads which suggest that our community 'standards' allow both. Personally, I'd be happy to see both go away by fiat but until then I'm all for allowing both. It's a relief valve.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)But the problems of DU excessively talking about DU apparently overtook whatever value there was.
Certainly, everyone who participated in meta- myself included- thought their own perspective and participation and expressions were helpful, it was just those other people with the other views that were the problem. Of course.
So I'm sort of on the "make it all go away by fiat" page, at this point. I don't think the community would be markedly damaged without grave dancing threads, for instance, despite the tradition (and again, I've danced in more than a few myself) and appreciation threads are probably more suited to the lounge anyway.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)and there is no underlying agenda between the words.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)Are they meant to take a poke at the Hosts of General Discussion? It seems to me that filling the forum up with bizarre stuff just creates more work for those who are charged with the task of cleaning it all up.
I appreciate DU but I do have to wonder when it goes off-the-wall.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)The posters of those threads probably have good intentions, but most of these threads just feel like high school all over again to be honest, and I don't participate in them much at all and sometimes just trash the threads. While a handful of DUers get shout outs and praises, everyone else gets left out of course. It brings about the impression that certain DUers are more treasured and more valuable and insightful than others.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Yet every time I post a story or video about North Korean refugees it sinks to the bottom faster then the Titanic.
DrDan
(20,411 posts)Separation
(1,975 posts)If there is one thing that I like about Facebook it's the "like" button. There are tons of posts that I agree with but I don't like to post the +1 replies. I dunno, just my honest opinion.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)and have to stop by my locker first.
Who are you taking to the prom?
Blaukraut
(5,693 posts)I rec ALL appreciation threads I see, even if they are for a person with whom I might not agree. I still appreciate their contribution to the conversation.