and the people who use it have to be okay that what ever thought and effort they put into a post is wasted on a segment of the members here.

don't cha think?

I find them annoying and also a lot animated gifs are distracting.
Ad Guard is great because you can actually draw a line around what you want removed.

so I disabled sigs. I'll look at Ad Guard.

Apparently Ad Blocker has now allowed 'some" ads. So I removed it.

Ad Guard plays well with Firefox/Linux, and it allows you "draw" a box around all the content you want removed, then preview the page before it removes the whatever. LOVE that option.

will try it on my Firefox

it seems to only block the bugs on that individual post. I can't waste my time blocking every time i see this.

Though AG does look pretty good in general.

Butterflies, etc, no problem.

Stuff that lives on feces and carries germs, bites you and all of that... Not welcome.

I've never understood the appeal. So I skip them, too.

THIS is annoying

..

As Miss Manners used to say "Where are standards?"



Have a great and bug free Thanksgiving, my friend...

did you see my post about the Art robbery in Italy?

health issues (bad attack of shingles) are driving me crazy...IIRC it was in Verona, a town I absolutely loved. But maybe I screwed that up too...

were so irritable. OP, you'd really, really hate reading while relaxing by the water here in Florida. I have to try smashing them to find out which are real and which is not.

with the bug and also those near them, as some of them are not in sig line.... the bug annoys and that annoyance is separate from any political issues tied to the bug. Never liked the bug. Bug bothers the eyes.

I like a lot of the written sig lines (I have one myself).

But the bug thing is out of hand.

That's what I did when they started popping up. No swatters no bugs, nothing here but peace.

I use uBlock, but there's a lot of other such add-ons out there.

I generally tend to like to see sig lines but I'm more annoyed and distracted by animated gifs than I like the sig lines!

Might wanna find out the reason it's there. It isn't to be "cute" or "fun".

it's result is I don't read the post.

Whatever profound, important statement it is meant for is wasted.

you don'thave to care if a number of DU members won't read your poasts because of it.

That's quite a stretch.

Really, nothing useful because something is found irritating.

And the rest think it's just plain silly and juvenile.

You all know who you are - both of you groups of "bug people."

So why inflict it on the rest of us?

Seriously, it makes all of you look very foolish. If your group of bug people like the bug, great.

If the swatter, Raid can people like their swatters, yeehaw.

But no one else gives a good goddamn, and in fact - just think it's perfectly puerile.

All you've done is cause most of DU to turn off the sig lines. So all you bug people have the sig lines all to yourselves now.

Which is pretty damn funny.

Hence your post about you and how you don't like it. While pretending to speak for everyone, of course.

I didn't say I didn't like it. I said it was stupid and juvenile, which it is.

Of course, I don't speak for everyone, but I have heard from many who feel the same.

I don't have enough energy to spare for liking or not liking a silly gif on a message board; it's just amazing to me how much energy all you bug people (on both sides) put into your wee bug sigs.

I just imagine both sides...crouched over their computers late into the night...looking desperately for that one sig line, that one can of raid, that one immortal bug that will show the other side once and for all - HA, OUR side of the bug people has TRIUMPHED.

Take that you can of raid people! Take that you crawling bug people!

It's actually hilarious. Tiresome, but hilarious.

"I didn't say I didn't like it. I said it was stupid and juvenile" - Saying something is stupid and juvenile is an implied "I don't like it".

"I don't have enough energy to spare for liking or not liking a silly gif on a message board" - This might have been more sincere had you not spared the energy to explaining how you thought it was stupid and juvenile.

I agree, it can be annoying to watch people bicker back and forth... especially when not knowing the particulars. In this case though, for me at least, it's a non issue.

In fact, I'm actually glad to see someone out there maintaining their animation skills.

that's why I took the time to comment.

Good lord.

You don't think it's a big deal. That's fine. Other do.

It took me 5 seconds, once.

Whatevs.

and didn't reflect his own thoughts.

Uneffingbelievable.

I had Bug-Boy on ignore for the better part of two years, I think, and it was one of my best Ignores. But it does make me wonder what posters like him are doing at Democratic Underground when they literally hate the Democratic Party, Democrats, and everything it and they stand and fight for. Every politican is flawed. NONE are perfect. But it's progress we need to look out for (which disqualifies any and all Republicans).

I love the part in the movie, The Equalizer, when Denzel Washington tells his somewhat heavy colleague who wanted to become a security guard and had to lose weight: "Remember. Progress, not perfection". Those words ring so true when it comes to politics and policies. I wish more understood it.

I'm not a primary warrior, so I don't really care. But the excuse you guys are using for the bug-boy is obvious bullshit, whether you knew it or not.

For example, sockpuppets to avoid your "time out" are apparently not always a bannable offense.

The TOS has to apply to everyone, not just the "inconvenient" people.

Just throwing an accusation around on the board looks pretty cheesy. If you're talking about "adogslife", that was before time-outs and the bannings for socks. Not that I want to defend that member in any way. I think she should have been banned. But as far as I know, admin has been consistent since time-outs began.

I'm pretty sure they are well aware of what's going on.

the Hillary site over two and a half years later.
It would really suck if they banned her now for something she did that long ago.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=302058&sub=trans

It's not only Sanders supporters who have posted "I refuse to vote for the other candidate in the GE". No bans. Heck, no bans on many Sanders supporters who actually said it instead of quoting an article.

But it appears that that's all you have.

Bug boy even pinned a thread in the Bernie Sanders group, warning everyone not to do what he did two weeks later. What gall.

Therefore, it would take pretty exceptional behavior on (for instance) your grandma's Facebook for DU's Admins to give you the ban hammer here at DU. In other words -- no.

There, is that in simple enough language?

No wonder they were quick to ban him when he stepped over that line.

although all the evidence proving their extremism gets hidden or ignored.

Sid

Keep showing just how classy you are, Sid.

Sid

Then I might believe you are something other than a small-minded authoritarian whose support means nothing.

Sid

if their primary candidate wasn't that person.

It's one thing to say you won't vote for the nominee in the heat of the primary battles. It's another to attempt to use DU to organize such an effort.

I gave them the cutesy to hear what they had to say.

It is apparently "We don't give a fuck"

I took the step to disable sigs.

and I haven't even got half way through it.

childish nonsense?

There would be no 'bugs' had someone not decided to be nasty about it.

"Better to curse the darkness than light a candle", ---My Grandmother cautioning me against closing my mind.

If a simple bug is your excuse for NOT reading Liberal Democratic Posts, most containing useful information, that is tour choice. I know others who have made the same type of decisions.

"Whatever profound, important statement it is meant for is wasted."---edhopper

No. It is only wasted on YOU, not the majority of other DU mebmers (as demonstrated by the poll that was too embarrassing for you and yours to remain standing.)
After reading your posts here, it seems much is wasted on you.
Thank goodness and the Liberal gods that most readers of DU are more discriminating
and have a more Real World concept about what is important,
and what is not.

Good luck on your campaign.
The bug WILL remain in my posts, so you would be better off just putting me on ignore.
I will do that for you at the end of this very amusing thread.

I find content-less posts to be much more irritating, and much more of a waste of time than a microscopic bug.... but I guess we all have our priorities.

The future direction of the Democratic Party, the survival of the Working Class, and our country is at stake, not to mention the entire Middle East and MILLIONS of innocents already murdered by the US. The lives of thousands of innocent people living in the Middle East are also at stake if we nominate another War Monger.... but a bug is what is important to you.

A dancing bug on a BBS rates NOTHING compared to what we do here, and the future of the Democratic Party, the innocents in the Middle East, and the vanishing Working Class,
but you ARE free to obsess about a small bug, and choose THAT to limit your access to information.

Happy Trails.
You have disclosed the depth of your concerns, and it is embarrassing.

a dancing bug at on a members sig is more important than all DUers reading said post.

Also, a DUer proclaiming their annoyance by the bug is far more important than those issues to you, Since you obviously took the time and effort for your long reply.

Works both ways.

why is having this worth members ignoring your post?

why it's worth ignoring members over it. I maybe wrong, but it feels like more then a simple annoyance to you.

disabling sigs (which i hadn't known about)

But it was so distracting, it wasn't worth reading the post.

I don't like the one where poor Hillary is brushing dandruff off her shoulder.gross!

It is distracting and annoying.

In fact, animated signature lines are like ads on MSNBC ... I'll look maybe even the first ten times ... after that it is just repetitive and bothersome.

There has got to be plenty of new material out there, right?

but i can live with it.

The bug thing is intolerable.

I didn't know what that bug thing was the first few times I saw it. At first I tried to swat my laptop screen but then when I saw it on my other computer I thought I had developed another floater in my eye!

Is her dandruff (aka, seborrheic dermatitis or seborrhea) stress-related or a chronic condition?

A little Head and Shoulders is the answer!

Last weekend I clicked through Faux, CNN, MSNBC and they ALL had it playing at the same time! Literally, all playing same ad at break had me ROFL

Though these old eyes can't read it.

I can't say I have been bothered by any but the bugs.

(Though the "Ron Paul, It's Happening is irratating too.)

but when has stopped us from posting.

And obviously it is important enough to you to post how unimportant it is.

I just disable them.

I think I'll plant a tree in your name. You smell successful. I'm writing you into my will. Ask me, and I'll tell you the secret to life, the Universe, and everything!

Too bad you wont be reading this...

I don't like it either.

Go for it.

I've got sigs turned off, as have many here since this nonsense started.

And besides, who cares if it's in your sig?

It's not going to influence anyone's vote, I'd be willing to bet!

Enjoy your holidays!

about that, you and the rest of the 8th Grade have a clique war going on. Sip, snack, you actually like that your stupid bug annoys people.

I have a ton of floaters in my eyes and I get optic migraines. I hope you get much joy from your bug.

Then you could submit bug reports.

Honestly, it's like pre-school in here lately.

I'd wager half of DU doesn't even notice, know, or care what it's about.

I've forgotten the name of the poster it was supposedly all in aid of. I don't have a clue what side anyone is on.

It's just stupid. And it's disappointed me to see either the bug or the swatter, bug spray, etc. on posters' sig lines that I thought were better than that.

Smh.

So much f'ing drama around here lately... everyone picking sides and "rooting" for their "team," no matter what.

Getting all up and personal over it, all butt-hurt and offended over mere words, lashing out, bad-mouthing and conspiring from other sites, acting persecuted then paranoid, then "taking their ball and going home" in some cases with epic GBCW threads.

This primary season can't be over soon enough...

(which i didn't know I could do, learn something new....)

The people who have this seem to revel in the fact they are annoying members.

Who gives a shit about a crawling bug graphic.

I simply can't read the post with that bug crawling around.

sigs are now disabled.

As far as visceral reactions go, it's one of the big ones. I can't stomach a screen full of crawling bugs. I scroll full screens until they're gone. If there's too many, I close the thread.

and then there's the swatter.