Get a grip, DU. We all understand your concern.

If I didn't despise DU polls, I'd run one to see how many of your are aware of the brainless obsession plaguing DU. It's nothing new -- we had over 2000 threads started with "Jeremiah Wright" mentioned in the opening post during the primaries.

So, we're hurtling toward the Democratic Convention in August, and the undisciplined children are still disrupting any chance of intelligent conversation at DU. The new topic, of course, is the FISA bill.

Care to venture a guess as to how many threads have mentioned FISA + Obama in the opening post? Well, that depends on when you start counting:

• Past 24 hours: 87 threads dedicated to this topic.
  
• Past 48 hours: 117
  
• In July, over 200 threads.
  
• Over the past 4 weeks, we've had nearly 500 threads dedicated to this single issue.

Care to guess how many original thoughts have been expressed in the OP of those threads? Here's a clue -- you can count them on your fingers with one hand in your pocket.

Shiny!

The concern is flowing greatly right now by the arm chair generals.

That there are so many posts about FISA and Obama. I think there are so many posts because there is not a logical explanation or a satisfactory resolution. I think people want to talk until they feel there is nothing more to say on the issue. Maybe until the cows come home. :-)

For the rest of us, it's getting old. My "Hide Thread" cache is stuffed. I'm beginning to "ignore" posters again (a lot of repeaters from the primaries).

I can't think of anything positive coming from rehashing the same concerns with the same words hundreds -- thousands? --of times.

discuss just as easily in an existing thread as in a brand new one.

I meant to put this under the comment that the Constitution meant nothing to you, further down the thread. I hate it when I do that.

no satisfactory resolution but there have been several logical explanations. However, the amount of threads that poppped up and all saying the same thing and by the same people (and within the same time frame) has no logical explanation.

Gotcha.

Tell you, Patriot: why don't you post the Constitution 500 times and see if that gets old.

You wanna know the best forum on DU? It's the Political Videos. You can post a video only once. It's awesome.

Or Patriot.

The "so the Constitution is not important" or "you must not love the Constitution" are some of the straw men responses that I see posted. Right, only they care for the Constitution or think it is important and there is only one viable point of view--theirs. This is used in exactly the same way that Republicans will accuse you of not loving America or being a patriot unless you agree with them.

This reminds me of last month when it was reported that Feingold would put up procedural roadblocks to stop the FISA vote. He was then derided here with comments like "big deal, procedural roadblocks", but when he said he would support a filibuster, then it was "He is a patriot, a patriot!"

Warrantless wiretaps = media-created outraged over the scary black preacher

Riiiiiight.

It's a discussion board.It would be impossible to control the "popularity" of certain threads as opposed to others and certain death to a board dedicated to "talk'.

This is about 500 brand new threads talking about one topic with nothing new being added at any given time.

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Just because you don't like what's being discussed doesn't mean we can't discuss it 10, 20 or 1000 times. Maybe we should all forward our thoughts to you for preapproval. :sarcasm:

Let me make sure I understand you: I should tolerate someone (or a group of someones) who wants to post the same idea 1000 times. But, you cannot tolerate me posting an idea you don't like just one time.

Sweet.

Far from it.

Bake

Keep in mind, friend, that this thread is talking about the starting of new threads on the same subject, not continued discussions or repeated posts within a thread.

How many concerned about DU threads?

How many STFU and get in line threads?


"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans. I want us to compete for that great mass of voters that want a party that will stand up for working Americans, family farmers, and people who haven't felt the benefits of the economic upturn."---Paul Wellstone

I always thought FISA was an important issue. Maybe not with the typical voter, but surly here.

I didn't object to a couple of posts on the subject, or even a couple dozen. I objected to nearly 100 in a single day and 500 in a month.

Just read the OP. It's all there.

And we'sll see his profile soon enough, I suspect.

It really bothers me that when those who are mad at this or that aspect of Obama's campaign START A FRESH NEW THREAD to say the same thing three other threads are already discussing. Why can't they just join an existing thread?

It seems so egotistical that they can't just scan the existing threads and join one. No no no. Their precious thoughts might get lost in someone elses ! Oh heavens.

I WISH THERE WERE A LIMIT to how many threads each person could start per day.

FISA is just one more distraction designed to suck all the air out of the room.

If YOU don't like it, and your cache can't take it any more, you're free to vacate the premises so the rest of us can discuss what is important to us.

And NO, I don't want to restrict your right to say what you said in the OP. I just don't care for posts that piss and moan about what other people want to discuss. It suggests that you think somebody died and made you King of DU.

Bake

As I said -- we get it.