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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThought long and hard about this: Time to put the Gun Nuts here at DU on ignore.
I have not one single member on ignore. Always thought it better to engage than ignore.
Not anymore....When I debate a gun nut I feel sick to my stomach. They literally make me sick.
The great thing about DU is we sort out the crap and eliminate it. Climate Warming skeptics...Bye...9/11 LIHOP...Bye...Mysogynist... Bye....Woo...Bye.
We don't say bye to Gun Nuts. Oh well... Admins prerogative.
But the Admins have given us a feature to eliminate them ourselves....the ignore feature.
Some may say...they win...they chased you. Perhaps?
But simply put...I'm tired of their bullshit and I won't miss them.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Iggo
(47,564 posts)Or "Ha, ha, ha! Good luck with that!"
Not me.
And so I agree. It's whack-a-mole time.
old guy
(3,283 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...the "nut" thing I can live with..
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Damn, I think there's only 47 or so people I can talk to now...
Response to trumad (Original post)
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Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)trumad isn't running. He's making the conscious choice to stop
Hekate
(90,779 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)and, I don't think this will work for him. He even said so...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125533830
Hekate
(90,779 posts)Drives me crazy.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Bigger issues indeed!
Hekate
(90,779 posts)RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)I'm sick of people who are putting their heads in the sand or their fingers in their ears about Gun Violence in this country.
This is a great idea!
trumad
(41,692 posts)I have weeded out the bad players on my page and now it's quite nice.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)the country will be talking pass the gun owners.
The conversation will not be should we have gun control but what kind of gun control.
Gun owners will still want the conversation to be about should we have gun control and at that point they make themselves irrelevant
petronius
(26,603 posts)We often seem to talk/complain/obsess about juries, Hosts and MIRT, but those--especially the first two--are blunt instruments in terms of shaping the DU experience. Ignore and Trash are like having your very own personal Host/Jury/MIRT/Admin that follows you everywhere you go and always does exactly what you want, immediately. More people should make use of those tools, IMO...
trumad
(41,692 posts)I only want to talk to people who agree with me. Christ, that's the problem with this country. People aren't willing to engage and discuss and work towards solutions. Do you think that ignoring people who support a right to own firearms (and who vastly outnumber those who want to ban firearms) is the way to accomplish your goals?
Renew Deal
(81,870 posts)There's not that many. Some of them are good on other issues.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)I don't own a gun or anything.
I would feel left out if I wasn't on your ignore list.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)But I will never respond to another gunner trash on any matter whatsoever.
librechik
(30,676 posts)I've ignored 3 of them tonight.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)No longer an "ignore" virgin. Sigh.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Johonny
(20,880 posts)Didn't have a single person on ignore until then. I find I don't miss anything. The gun issue is the best single issue with which to fill up the ignore list or at least that's what I found out.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Texasgal
(17,047 posts)Curious because I seem to see alot of moderates on this debate here on DU.
Texasgal
(17,047 posts)jonno99
(2,620 posts)Texasgal
(17,047 posts)I mean if you are gonna make a statement that you are going to ignore all "gun nuts" how do you decide who you will ignore?
trumad
(41,692 posts)Texasgal
(17,047 posts)Really???
C'mon dude, I thought you were WAY smarter than that!
What does PRO GUN mean to you???
trumad
(41,692 posts)Texasgal
(17,047 posts)because your question is fucking bullshit. It's akin to asking what's up and down.
Define pro-gun and gun-nut and I'll give you my answer.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Assault weapons?
Ofcourse not.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Thanks
Texasgal
(17,047 posts)Really?
trumad
(41,692 posts)Texasgal
(17,047 posts)your thread.
Oh well, won't be the first time I have been perplexed on DU.
trumad
(41,692 posts)then stay perplexed.
jonno99
(2,620 posts)not everyone is going to have to same opinion. Then - MOVE ON - and don't get hooked.
Of course it also doesn't hurt to keep an open mind. Personally, the last place I want to be is where I'm convinced that I've got all the (correct) answers. I mean, imagine shutting yourself off from potential "enlightenment"!
Bottom line: I don't put anyone on ignore...
Kang Colby
(1,941 posts)I don't blame you for ignoring pro-2A progressives.
greendog
(3,127 posts)Not the normal folks to happen to have guns for one reason or another. Just those who've caught the gun humper sickness. Over 50 of them.
Do it. You won't miss anything.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)That's a brilliant strategy.