Reply #537: Well, here's her edited version of what happened here [View All]

[Walt Starr]

BevHarris
Member since Jul-11-03
1716 posts Dec-03-04, 07:41 PM (PST)

1. "that's been brewing for awhile now"
In response to message #0

LAST EDITED ON Dec-03-04 AT 07:41 PM (PST)

Several months back, the Democratic Underground mods started selectively enforcing the rules. Especially beginning around July, when we announced our Qui Tam action, our posts began to be trolled by a handful of "DU" members, who launched personal attacks and engaged in endless personality squabbles.
I tried three different approaches, none of which worked.

- Tried to respond to the attacks. That just fanned the flames.
- Tried ignoring the attacks. That still fanned the flames, and the attacks became more vicious, to the point of libel (e.g. "she's a con man who probably steals credit cards") and when I didn't respond, the attackers would say, "see, if this wasn't true she'd defend herself"
- Tried following "DU" rules and alerting the mods, who usually did nothing about the personal attacks, but threatened to ban me if I used the alert button.

I still posted on Democratic Underground fairly frequently, because it is a good place to vet out arguments. The debate there is more aggressive, since many members don't have any particular loyalty to Black Box Voting, and that is constructive when trying to hone a message.

The timing of today's ban was very interesting. I've been noticing that the attacks have escalated since we began publishing information about Volusia County. In fact, a curiousity is that we have gotten some surprising resistance to our investigation from some individuals associated with the Democratic Party and/or the Kerry campaign, which doesn't make any particular sense to me, since the facts in Volusia County seem to point to local problems that are not systemic, not spread across the rest of Florida, and can't affect the Kerry campaign.

Today, in a post in a "DU" thread pertaining to Palm Beach County, I posted an update about Volusia County. Oddly, this post disappeared. Usually the post just says "delete" but in this case, it disappeared altogether. Vaporized.

Curious, I decided to test the theory that Volusia County investigations, for some inexplicable reason, are touching a nerve with the Democrats. I created a Democratic Underground thread with the Volusia County update, thinking I'd observe it to see if the moderators locked it. It was well received, and professionally written.

Within an hour, the mods not only locked it, but banned me from posting for life.

Bev Harris

Apparently, Skinner, EarlG, and Elad are now in on the Volusia conspiracy.

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