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silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
Sat May 14, 2016, 03:19 PM May 2016

Someone in the cave is whining about being

blocked from this group. So I thought I would just provide an update to the current statuses of our respective groups.

Theirs:
Number of subscribers: 411
Number of people trashing: 432
Number of people blocked: 877

Ours:
Number of subscribers: 1046
Number of people trashing: 183
Number of people blocked: 364

That contrast alone speaks volumes to me.

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Someone in the cave is whining about being (Original Post) silvershadow May 2016 OP
Proud subscriber, trasher and a blocked user here! thereismore May 2016 #1
Me too. silvershadow May 2016 #3
Me three EdwardBernays May 2016 #7
Exile #604 checking in. TheCowsCameHome May 2016 #8
Me four Duval May 2016 #12
Hey, they like "numbers" so much NJCher May 2016 #2
I doubt they believe them. Even thought they are accurate and silvershadow May 2016 #4
The number of people blocked from this group correlates to (1) the number of intruders merrily May 2016 #5
Cool! Let those vicious Brock trolls scratch each others' eyes out... NewImproved Deal May 2016 #6
The other interesting thing to do is look at the OPs on the first page of both groups. cui bono May 2016 #9
Blocked user No. 700-something here! Manifestor_of_Light May 2016 #10
I saw that earlier and wanted to mention it in a post... bjo59 May 2016 #11
The ratios are also instructive eridani May 2016 #13

merrily

(45,251 posts)
5. The number of people blocked from this group correlates to (1) the number of intruders
Sat May 14, 2016, 03:26 PM
May 2016

who have posted in this group; (2) the length of time this group has existed; and (3) the number of OPs in this group.

Many on this board weirdly have pretended to be supporters of Sanders. Some still are pretending. I know of not a single Sanders supporter who has pretended to be a Hillary supporter.

Bottom line: The hosts of this group are great.

cui bono

(19,926 posts)
9. The other interesting thing to do is look at the OPs on the first page of both groups.
Sat May 14, 2016, 04:06 PM
May 2016

I remember checking that out when I wrote my post in there calling them on their complete bullshit, here's the relevant part:

I'll tell you something I see in here though. In the top 8 posts of this Hillary group are two that are complaining about Bernie supporters, this one plotting against them.

In the entire first page of posts in the Bernie group you don't find anything similar at all, they are all about Bernie himself, or something to do with him, but certainly not about Hillary supporters.

A couple weeks ago (I think around then) there was a negative post about Hillary supporters and it was locked and self-deleted and several Bernie supporters, myself included, asked in the OP (and I sent a pm to a host asking for the OP to be deleted/locked) to not do that. As I said, the OP was locked and self-deleted.

I realize the whole Bernie supporters are mean and childish is the new thing on DU, but we are not plotting as a group against Hillary supporters like this OP is. And when there was a negative post about Hillary supporters it was taken down due to the dislike of it, it was not cheered on as this OP is, or the one about Ghadaffi is. We aren't looking at this as a war between supporters as this group seems to based on these two well regarded OPs.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1107&pid=6967


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bjo59

(1,166 posts)
11. I saw that earlier and wanted to mention it in a post...
Sat May 14, 2016, 04:11 PM
May 2016

but I'm kind of an outlier as I'm pretty new and not that familiar with the "politics" of this site so I decided not to. Glad you did because now I know the term "the cave." Perfect. From what I've seen on here, it is the opposite of what that HRC person is complaining about. Daily I'm reminded of the "war is peace" thing in "1984." Surreal.

eridani

(51,907 posts)
13. The ratios are also instructive
Sun May 15, 2016, 02:43 AM
May 2016

Sanders group

Ratio of subscribers to banned: 2.87

Clinton group

Ratio of subscribers to banned: 0.47

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