7 sentences that will help you enjoy Democratic Underground more and be frustrated with it less.

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  I've seen a lot of strife and upset on here recently and it is unnecessary. The strife and upset is often caused by an erroneous perspective of what Democratic Underground actually is. Not what it strives to be, mind you.

  Recently, for instance, there has been a good deal of unnecessary upset about the new rating system which, I think, is a big step forward.

  If you carefully read this informal little disclaimer and genuinely understand it, you will find yourself far less frustrated with the various opinions you come in contact with on Democratic Underground.

Anyone can join Democratic Underground. They can claim anything. Democratic Underground gives no warranty that the people with which you interact on Democratic Underground are Democrats or even Progressives. They may be Republicans, other political agitators or merely the mentally-unstable, heavily intoxicated or deranged personalities whose behavior is best described as "shit-stirring assholes". The Administrators and Moderators do their very best to weed out anyone who does not follow the rules of the forum but by no means can they really know the intentions of the many thousands of posters here.

Furthermore, reading the first two sentences in the above paragraph, realize that their irrational, inflammatory or destructive behavior may appear to be supported by other individuals or even the bulk of respondents to a given post. However, always applying the above paragraph to certain phantasmagoric situations you may witness in given threads in our fora, you are best served by believing only those ideas that you agree with to be real and the rest highly suspect.

PB