discussionist is a misogynist pit hole - vulgar language

[Leith]

99. I've Been a Regular Poster Over There

I'm City Kitty. I was hoping for a good dialog with conservatives, but it has been pretty disappointing so far.

It has become much worse in the past week or two: deliberate trolling, thread hijacking, blatant insults, crap like that. The worst part is what they call "jury swarming." That's where reichwingers vote to hide or leave alone based on one's politics, NOT the post in question. If a liberal made the post, they vote to hide. If one of the gang made the post, they vote to leave it alone, no matter how vile it is.

Yes, there have been complaints about the slanted jury system. I started a thread in help because of a comment made by another juror about an alerted post. None of the mods acknowledged my thread at all - and that isn't the only time. The only defense is to make a jury blacklist: 5 posters that you don't want to be on a jury voting on your post. I have not seen an announcement about it and I found it quite by chance. Needless to say, I filled my list with a hope that it would take more names (it won't, dangit).

On the good side, there is a smaller number of posters over there and I remember names better (hi, Miss Quay and Gr8Days and several more!) better than I can over here. Some names I recognize from DU (like Mr Scorpio).

So far, this experiment is careening towards failure. The mods desperately need to rein in some of the trolls and frankly bad posters. They also need to communicate with us more. A thread or two per week can't be too much to ask.

I don't blame DUers for avoiding Discussionist. I've been on no-holds-barred message boards before and idiots are nothing new. Discussionist is different because of how reichwingers gang up on anyone who doesn't agree with them and cheer on their nastiness.

The whole tone here is much better.