I kid, I kid

In that 12 hour period.

see here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023911978

and yet I'm somehow strangely aroused

contingent that get away with calling other DUers trolls on a regular basis.

Why don't we try for 12 hours of civility instead? That would be different.

And there was much rejoicing.

Believe me.

Did I miss the announcement for another planned 'subvert troll unveiling'?

the OP will go on suspension on 12 - 24. As it stands right now, it will only last four days. If he gets more hidden posts between now and then, it will be longer.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]You should never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]

So calling for a 12 hour 'purge' would make you the Devil.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]You should never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]

Blame the movie.

suffer from bulimia, but my thought was the same upon reading the title...



Screw that! I'm not sticking my finger down my throat for anybody, for any reason!!!

to curse somebody out and want to do so with the dreaded time out notice.

I'm a teddy bear. Besides.... I might lock myself up and hide.

What can we expect from the subsequent colonoscopy?

About your idea, well, its humorous anyway.

time. knowing i was going to get a hide and telling my self, well and everyone, my "fuck you" was well worth the hide. i got the hide. the person i said it to was then banned, and i was left with a hide.

i

empathize.

It felt good.

to even alert on it. no remorse from me or having the hide.

was waged in the thread.

has been allowed to stand for a while. and your OP was not really hide worthy, if anything it was a lock from GD. though, as i say, i have watched the host allow those threads repeatedly recently.

But, whatever.

On edit: stupid phone

his pizza. so.....

It was worth taking the chance.

something I just will never understand.

There are so many better ways to tell someone what you think of them.

Some of them are so good, sometimes the other person can't even come up with a reply.

You get to tell someone off, they are stymied, and you don't get a post hidden.

I mean, there are so many truly intelligent people here on DU. It never ceases to amaze me how seldom some of them fail to utilize the English language, going instead for the vulgar and rude.

I dunno...

sorry...I didn't mean to lecture. I just enjoy seeing people using wit (instead of obscenity) when dealing with trolls and jackasses...




I'll shut up now.

or what i tend to see as catty behavior. yes it is obvious, and some of us prefer not to approach life in that manner. if we truly have something to say, we say it clearly and take the repercussions instead of playing catty little games.

i hear what you are saying, but i never really respected that approach in life

meh

each their own, right pipi?

take it any way you like.

I'm saying I didn't mean to lecture. If you took it that way, then I'm sorry for that. But please don't tell me I meant to do something when you do not have the ability to read my mind or know what my intentions were.

As for the thing about not playing catty little games, is that a hard and fast rule?

If B (an anonymous, faceless person) says something A doesn't like on an internet discussion group, it's all fine and dandy to say "Fuck you" because at least it's not playing catty little games. It's "telling it like it is".

But if B (who is one's boss, or one's mom, or one's clergyman, etc.) says something A doesn't like, is it also OK to say "Fuck you" to that person?

Anybody who says it is OK (and actually does it) is a lot braver than I am, that's for sure.

So, IMO, anybody who can control him/herself in the second situation can also control him/herself in the first situation but chooses not to, for whatever reason.

Maybe because it feels so good to verbally abuse some anonymous human being on the internet.

Whatever.

OK, I'm done. I mistakenly thought that this might be something we could discuss as adults, but since I'm being accused of having some catty little agenda, let's drop the whole thing.

I said I was done.

Please don't bother me again here.

thanks

Hides that result from attacking someone who is not a legitimate member of the DU community should not count.

You couldn't confine yourself to just 12 hours.

At Thu Oct 24, 2013, 11:00 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

Can we have a 12 hour Purge at DU?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023912795

REASON FOR ALERT:

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS:

How about we just learn to stop calling people names and them whining when our posts get hidden? The Meta forum was removed for a reason.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Thu Oct 24, 2013, 11:13 AM, and the Jury voted 2-4 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: I would vote to hide the alert message for being a personal attack before I would vote to hide the alerted upon message.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

"Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: I would vote to hide the alert message for being a personal attack before I would vote to hide the alerted upon message."


Classic!!

I would love to know who alert stalks me.

The fact that two jurors voted to hide on that lame alert indicates that your reputation precedes you into the jury room.

a recent post in this thread. I was flabbergasted when I got that jury post... And then I saw it was against tru.

need to see the alert. just that i am being alerted on. but, i agree with your assessment with trumad

I've got my own alert stalkers.

FWIW, I almost never send alerts. Not generally my style. So none of the ones that have gone out on your posts in the past few days have come from me.

Just sayin'.

with me.

on edit... oh, and they would be wrong in their assumption.

Like I said, I rarely alert.

where everything is fine.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]You should never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]

up and didn't use coasters. this is why we can't have nice things.

A different personality for 12 hours... being the bad girl might be fun.

i have way tooooo much fun being my good girl, that i am, without dire consequences, ..... mostly.

well, until skinner opened meta up for a free for all. and even that, i walked the line in integrity, i feel, as so many digressed.... trumad. lol, actually not you either, cause there is the intense honesty even in your bluntness, which to me is all about good, not bad. well.... maybe i give you a tad more lite than deserved, but i have learned to appreciate that little bit of darkness, too.

sigh...

i have been in a lot of my self awareness groups of late... lmao. i see the good in all things.

of the punching bag. i wouldnt have a chance.

and trust me---they would be vanquished.

I've held onto grunges that have lasted longer than twelve years. So, if I survive the first twenty-four hours...

The premise freaked me out, especially with the right-wing fundie government in place.

Username names in a Hammer film. Or worse since I'm on a Edward Lee marathon reading kick for Halloween.

Man--so tempting

It's called "GD".

This place gets uncivil enough as it is. Some people here apparently do not care about polite discourse, even in disagreement. I do.

So, with all due respect, I would vote no on your idea.

Alerting.

Purge that.

for the date of this event.

Trumadmukkah!

Cleaning up the purge will take over 12 hrs. There will be blood everywhere. Not easily cleaned up or dismissed.

Dreams are good though and should never be discouraged.

True that.

Now after reading your post about "The Ann Coulter DREAM" I may have to reconsider my statement of not discouraging dreams.

I would post lots of horror movie stuff.

in a Skinner post. That's not going to happen, certainly, and neither is your free-for-all day. Instead, DU is probably going to become more civil, once the reality of the new rules about hidden posts takes effect.

But, that's just my opinion.

Since you're what, one or two hides away from being booted, I guess that would sound like a good deal for you.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023902265

a great majority see the tongue planted firmly in cheek.... Some obviously don't.

but some see it as something else planted elsewhere.

Like this, sorta -

would have effects that last much longer than the 12 hours, the grieving families of murder victims, the other victims who stood personal losses from theft and so on. On the other hand, we would then know who the murderers and thieves are.

It would be the same at DU. The consequences would last longer than the twelve hours but we will know who are the real trolls and disrupters.

but that would be a 12 hour period during which I'd be absent. I don't actually like having the tone of posts here lowered by a lot of ad homs. Besides, there's a lot of latitude on this site to let people know exactly what you think of them via the oblique insult.

It wouldn't even be much fun to take people off my ignore list for that 12 hours to bedevil them with assessments of their ancestry, anatomy, proclivities, and ultimate destination.

a point I tried to make somewhere upthread.

It's the difference between

An excellent example. Winston Churchill was a master at the appropriate and civil comeback that ends the conversation.

Wit, indeed.

I can just imagine Lady Astor choking on her braised salmon while trying to come up with a better riposte to that than, "Fuck you, Winston!"

"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."

I always heard the quip was brandy which kind of makes it all the more humorous as Winnie loved his brandy.

The movie was a bit whacked...

that's not healthy, you know.

Comes from my early toilet training, I think.

thoroughly disreputable and chipotle-flavored.

I do not dare view it.

you could end up wordled, curdled and yertle the turtle-d.

http://www.wordle.net/

As long as all Groups were open to the general public for that 24 hours.

I guess we'd all have to volunteer for clean-up duty, the day after, though. Place would be totally trashed beyond recognition, I think.

It's called the Sports Group.