the official list of DU lounge proprietary/propiety police triggers:

[datasuspect]

what gets the net nannies going?

my partial list:

1. copycat threads
2. song lyrics

?

any others that contribute to the fall of the DU lounge?

[billyskank]

1. I'm x posts away from y, ask me anything!

[Droopy]

2. Spamming the lounge

[datasuspect]

3. i thought spam

was unsolicited commercial advertisements?

[sam sarrha]

7. the problem with and an eye for an eye, is that soon everybody is blind.

[sam sarrha]

10. Maybe ...'Seperate' but 'Equal', if you want to see it, click an icon..

or something..

[Trajan]

4. "The fall of the DU Lounge has been greatly exaggerated" ...

Signed: Me ....

[sam sarrha]

13. It's not falling, it is just leaking out into the other forums....

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

15. What's leaking out where?

[ltfranklin]

5. Sex threads without Sex!

For god sakes, if you're going to start a Sex thread, AT LEAST have some Sex in it!

[asthmaticeog]

23. Your sig pic -

Is that "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T"?

[ltfranklin]

24. Yes, Indeed!

The BEST (and most Atomic) movie ever made!

[sam sarrha]

6. being ...Criminally Inane..

:think: .......................:shrug:

[Midlodemocrat]

8. Calling the mods net nannies.

In the past, has led to not so good things.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

9. I think it's not about the mods at all... more like the people who are

annoyed and perhaps judgmental of posts that don't break the 'rules' of the board... but their own Lounge Standards.

That's how I took it, anyway.

[Midlodemocrat]

11. Gotcha.

:thumbsup:

Who knew there were lounge standards?

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

14. There are threads going now about copycats lowering the cumulative IQ of

DU.

The non-mods 'policing' the board in their own vigilantist manner. The social 'faux paus' of the board openly criticized.

Again, that's how I took it.

[datasuspect]

17. and you are exactly correct

this is specifically what i meant.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

20. Ignore is an enigma wrapped in a mystery to some people.

Or is it that the thrill of finger pointing and group laughter and chastising is too goddamn appealing?

:shrug:

[datasuspect]

21. i find it curious that the same finger pointers

worry way too much about what people at free republic think.

[crispini]

18. Oh, yes, the whole "Mommy Posts" phenomenon.

:eyes:

[ltfranklin]

25. Of course there are Lounge Standards!

"Night and Day"
"My Pretty Valentine"
"That's Amore!"

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

26. Don't forget "I get a kick out of you" and "Luck Be a Lady"

[ltfranklin]

27. And of course, the "One Ring" of all Lounge Standards...

"Feelings!"

Feeelings...nothing more than...Feeelings
Talking 'bout them feeelings...Feeelings for Yooooooou!
Feelings...Rappin bout them Feeelings...
All about the Feeelings...Feeelings...pour du!

FEEEEEEEEEEEEEElings, woh wohhhh woh woh woh
FEEEEEEEEEEEEEElings, doo doobie wah wah
FEEEEEEEEEEEEEElings, they're what I got...
for YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!


Ghod, brings tears to my eyes.

[sam sarrha]

12. Standards... what standards.?? quit posting after certian alcohol level.?

[datasuspect]

16. not even referring to mods

i've never even thought about messing around with mods, so please don't misunderstand me.

i'm referring to elements that get their knickers in a twist when people do things they don't necessarily like and then whine about it.

[In_The_Wind]

19. you could add this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3889582

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3889582#3890971

[tjwmason]

22. My pet hate is folk who bitch and moan about other folk's threads.

If you don't want to play at copy-cat - just ignore them.

If you don't want to read song-lyrics (I'm not that keen on them) - just ignore them.

I really couldn't be that bothered about pictures of other folk's pets - so I don't open those threads. I know that lots of people like to look at a cat and go "ohhh ahhh" - that's fine by me, just as I don't have to join in. And guess what - I don't have to. I just click on threads which I think might interest me. I don't hunt down discussions which others are enjoying, but which would bore me senseless just so that I can post a moan about it.

Live and let live - if you want to copycat, fine - if you want to post song-lyrics, fine - if you want to post pet pictures, fine. There is no obligation on anybody to read all - or indeed any - of the threads in the Lounge. :rant:

B.T.W. datasuspect - this rant certainly was not aimed at you or your thread - but rather was in agreement with it.