Reply #11: I guess I should have been clearer [View All]

[WilliamPitt]

First of all, I'm a little wound up because I have been called all those names tonight. Thanks for your apology, by the way; it was that DeLay quip that really set my teeth on edge.

So let me be clear: If there were 296 current threads on *anything*, I'd be asking wtf is going on. I just happened to get wild about the 296 dead girl threads.

The reason: I live and die on information. I need to know all I can about 50 given things at any given time. That's part of my job; the other part is making it clear on paper. DU is, above all other places I've seen in the last four years, the best place on the planet to stay on top of what is happening.

So when 296 threads on one topic blow up all over the board, it makes my job harder, so I get a little annoyed. When I try to suggest that maybe 41 threads titled OMG, FRIST!!!11 or LOL, DeLAY!!!11 or GRRRRR getting posted in 20 minutes, thus blowing the protest news, World Bank news, Iraq news and all other subjects into left field, when that happens 296 times, I feel irk.

Great, great irk.

Someday I won't be an alternative journalist, and I won't have to be the best I can be at it because that's how we're going to shred the mainstreamers. These days, I have to care about it, I get paid to care about it, so being good at it is the only option.

DU makes that possible, except when 296...well, you get the idea.

:)

On edit: I don't think I am the only one who uses DU the way I do, not by a long shot. If you check the ATA forum, I am very much not alone. So it begs the question: Are people like me being unfair to those who post all these TS threads, or are they being unfair to us?