I can't help myself, and there is no 12-step.

If so I now get rugs post!

for rug's post. Thanks

They only serve to promote cliquish high school behavior.

But then again 13 is the minimum age here...

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." Kurt Vonnegut

That is scary indeed.

No lie. If 13 year olds were this involved in Democratic politics, 2020 could be an epic election.

Now "average mental age" could be another discussion.....


I'd love it if DUers could agree on this simple proposition: Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren may have differences, but we DUers are fighting against John Boehner, Antonin Scalia, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, et. al.

Fire can warm or burn, and those not close to it can be left in the cold.

Some people; the disheartened ones may need a flame to reignite their passion for the righteous struggle.

Thanks for the thread, Algernon Moncrieff.

which I think they started as a corrective to. In fact, I know the first one was posted because the OP mistakenly thought a thread calling for someone to be PPR'd was about the person he then posted the thread for.

Wars would be a lot better, I think, if guys would say to themselves sometimes "Jesus — I'm not going to do that to the enemy. That's too much."

and I can't pretend to be above it all.

a lot. And, for those I don't.. I just don't get on their app threads. Easy.

It's been auto removed but you can kinda tell what "Fred M" had to say by the comments of the munchers.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025224982

Hey..it's the best I can do on short notice.

Now I'll anger Cha and completely undermine my highly scientific poll.

or whether they are genuinely to express appreciation for the person mentioned.

But what do I know. I naively assumed that Quinnox really had accidentally cut his lip.

I post a response in a thread, only to find out that there is a dramatic subtext of which I was completely unaware.

Including, of course, this one.

If people want meta back so badly they should march over to ATA and request it. Or rename GD meta.

Otherwise it's gone for a reason.

so there's no reason to request a separate Meta in ATA. Plus juries generally don't hide appreciations or grave dancing threads which suggest that our community 'standards' allow both. Personally, I'd be happy to see both go away by fiat but until then I'm all for allowing both. It's a relief valve.

But the problems of DU excessively talking about DU apparently overtook whatever value there was.

Certainly, everyone who participated in meta- myself included- thought their own perspective and participation and expressions were helpful, it was just those other people with the other views that were the problem. Of course.

So I'm sort of on the "make it all go away by fiat" page, at this point. I don't think the community would be markedly damaged without grave dancing threads, for instance, despite the tradition (and again, I've danced in more than a few myself) and appreciation threads are probably more suited to the lounge anyway.

and there is no underlying agenda between the words.

Are they meant to take a poke at the Hosts of General Discussion? It seems to me that filling the forum up with bizarre stuff just creates more work for those who are charged with the task of cleaning it all up.

I appreciate DU but I do have to wonder when it goes off-the-wall.

The posters of those threads probably have good intentions, but most of these threads just feel like high school all over again to be honest, and I don't participate in them much at all and sometimes just trash the threads. While a handful of DUers get shout outs and praises, everyone else gets left out of course. It brings about the impression that certain DUers are more treasured and more valuable and insightful than others.

Yet every time I post a story or video about North Korean refugees it sinks to the bottom faster then the Titanic.

If there is one thing that I like about Facebook it's the "like" button. There are tons of posts that I agree with but I don't like to post the +1 replies. I dunno, just my honest opinion.

and have to stop by my locker first.

Who are you taking to the prom?

I rec ALL appreciation threads I see, even if they are for a person with whom I might not agree. I still appreciate their contribution to the conversation.