Just trashing the GD: P and HRC threads does wonders.

I have seen your name around these parts forever and I love the political cartoons you post . To have you answer my post and first too is like meeting a celebrity. Thank you!

I haven't even dated a Khardasian! Anyway, belated welcome to the Sanders team (and DU).

but believe me, I do understand.

my ignore list just in the last couple of months and trashed GD-Pee- it really improved my quality of life. No regrets.

I've been on DU for years and only had one or two people on ignore, and never for more than a couple weeks. That has all changed since this primary season began.

I now have many on ignore. It honestly pains me to do that, but it's the only way to be able to tolerate this place at the present time. Do what you have to do, but don't be silenced. Continue to post and speak out.

Bernie is the best, most honest candidate of my lifetime. I am proud to support a person of such integrity and look forward to voting for him in the primary and general election.

BTW - good to see you here. Don't be a stranger.

It is like personal censorship but the idiotic arguments and the unearned vitriol is just too much. I am here everyday, I enjoy reading so many posts and I learn so much here that I will not give this place up. I just needed to do a little house cleaning.

It's a tough call. You know the posts they make are still there. But it's like being kinder to yourself. Good for you.

It's like closing the door on a messy room. I know the garbage and dirt is still there but I don't have to see it. But your are so right, it was a tough call, one poster in particular pushed me over the edge and I just decided if I was going to do it, why not go all the way.

What is sad, I have found it necessary to use Ignore on posters I have known for years and you I used to respect a great deal. The constant vitriol finally got me started with one or two and then, like you, I then went all the way. Hide thread and Ignore have made it possible to again enjoy the DU.

And a jury blacklist, too.

The players change every so often, so you have to update it from time to time.

Plus, Bernie has the voting record to show the exact intent of his entire political career.

I see you probably don't post much, but I wish you would here... at least in this group. I like and relate to how it feels here at times. I added another few to the list myself, and I've always had a "small" group I ignore...

But NOTHING like the group that has grown over the last 4 or so months. Unbelievable.

Take care,

MMM

I don't post much, I'm more of a lurker, but I enjoy when I do. It's wonderful to interact with so many smart and funny people. I feel like James Dean in DU just now in Rebel Without a Cause, "Your tearing me apart!" I've never seen the like. The Republicans are eating their own and the Democrats are finally trying to reclaim their party and being eviscerated for it. We do live in interesting times.

but right now, I've got so many cowpies on my waiting-to-ignore compost pile it's not even remotely funny.

07-08 was a nasty time, really racist, hateful and nasty things were said and talking points issued. But this year, Camp Weathervane and some of the She-Who-Sticks-Fingers-In-The-Wind supporters have made DU suck ass.

Ignore list and Hide thread is like spraying a can of Febreeze.

Your description had me laughing. Cowpies is just about right! The air is so much fresher now.

Have never had to use the Ignore feature. Now? I must have close to 100 Hillary supporters on Ignore. I cannot believe what I see posted anymore.

...and every day I find more for the list! It keeps me sane.

Over 1100 on my ignore list, but unfortunately I still see (on the DU home page) OP's by people on my ignore list.

but I cleaned it out after the primaries ended. I haven't used it since. Sometimes posts I read here are extremely difficult to stomach, but I refuse to ignore them.

Like, I said I've never had one before it's just become too much especially after DNCGate. Now Manny gone...I'm now thinking that ignore isn't even enough to cut the stench. Might be time to take a powder. Don't know...been a horrible place the last 24 hours. This is the only nice group anymore but then it feels like hiding if I only come here .

And now I do more lurking than usual. I'm not one who posts a ton anyway, but I find myself biting my tongue more frequently now than before.

At first it was quite small, no more that 20 folks tops-I have a strong stomach afterall. Then the Obama elections years came in and that strong stomach reached it's limits so I stared expanded that list to ignore of the PUMA and jerks that came along with 'em. Once Obama got elected it got more action to deal with the Obama bots. Now after a long pause I'm finding I'm using it again to ignore the rabid Hillary folks. Especially those who think you're evil cause you don't support her or wont accept/vote for the democratic version of the ticking bomb theory (i.e. it'll be doomsday for the supreme court it you don't support the democratic candidate-even if it's someone you detest). And that list is still growing (and I might start the jury ignore as well). Which is a part of the reason why I have a dismal outlook on the 2016 elections.