2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Thom Hartmann asks: "Who's Lying, BLM or Hillary Clinton?" [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts).... in the protected group, so there's an inclination to go in there and respond to it. Sometimes people don't look at the group it is posted in when they see it on Greatest or Latest thread links and post before seeing that it is a protected group. I've self-deleted a post when I did that a couple of times.
But the answer in these cases, is not to go in to that thread and respond, but to either go to a different protected group (like the Bernie or populist group when feeling the need to respond to a Hillary Group thread) and making a post there if you feel a lot of internal discussion is needed on that issue, or to post in GD-P if you think that such a discussion line needs to be moved directly to a thread where a debate can occur. That way, if you feel incorrect information is being put forth in a private group thread, you can get discussions to counter those notions on DU, but still respect the closed group boundaries.