For a while tonight I couldn't see anyone's post count, high or low. It was wonderful.

[Voice for Peace]

I hoped it might be a new feature. or non-feature.

[gateley]

1. Def-con -- DU pares down during high traffic events.

[flamingdem]

2. you egalitarian you!

on the other hand I think that people thought I was a troll! never realized how helpful post count can be..

[darkangel218]

4. So you deny being a troll?

[flamingdem]

6. I wuz naked

They saw right thru mee

[darkangel218]

7. ahahahahaha!! naked troll... hmm :p

[Indpndnt]

17. Beware!

Willard, Annie, and their boys are coming for you! [url=http://www.cosgan.de/smilie.php][img][/img][/url] [url=http://www.cosgan.de/smilie.php][img][/img][/url] [url=http://www.cosgan.de/smilie.php][img][/img][/url] [url=http://www.cosgan.de/smilie.php][img][/img][/url] [url=http://www.cosgan.de/smilie.php][img][/img][/url] [url=http://www.cosgan.de/smilie.php][img][/img][/url] [url=http://www.cosgan.de/smilie.php][img][/img][/url]

[Voice for Peace]

11. I've come to believe there are "visitors" shall we call them who have been living among us for

many thousands of posts, studying the ways of DU
It is the posters with the highest counts who make
me the most nervous.

Just the other day I was accused of being a troll
so my midling post count didn't help at all. I worked
hard to get those first 1000, but it's futile.

[darkangel218]

3. I never see the posts counts

on my cell. Only when I log in on my laptop, and that is not very often.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. Same here. And I never notice monikers either.

It's just me and the posters words.

Amazing how things are without post counts and avatars, isn't it?

[darkangel218]

9. Yup. Alot less distraction :) n/t

[Voice for Peace]

14. that's what made it so nice -- no extraneous judgements going on

[Lone_Star_Dem]

16. It's how I DU.

However, I've still managed to make a mess of things recently.

It's still possible to offend people even when you're not judging them on such things as post count, and only using content.

People can still become nasty. Consider this your warning.

[Bozita]

5. For a short time, DUers without a star were locked out.

Like I said, it was only for a few minutes.

[darkangel218]

10. Actually, even with a star i had troubles loggin in

For a few seconds. Most likely due to the high traffic. I doubt they banned non star members specifically.

[Bozita]

12. A window appeared that said otherwise.

When the traffic gets too heavy, it's either that or the servers go down.

A lot of limits were imposed before that happened.

[darkangel218]

15. Ahhh ok. n/t

[Voice for Peace]

13. I didn't have trouble getting in but everything was so nice and simple, easy going.

[desertduck]

18. I was surprised by that. Don't rememer that ever happening in 04 or 08

[pinboy3niner]

20. When I 'Like'd EarlG's thread on Facebook it showed up like this...

Error - Democratic Underground
www.democraticunderground.com

We're sorry, due to extremely high traffic levels the administrators of this site have turned off access for non-registered members.Click hereto login or create an account

[Turborama]

19. since my laptop died I can only DU with my blackberry & that's the norm for me, also only OP titles

... and numbers of replies in the forum list. No usernames, views or recs, just titles. Makes for an interesting experience, guessing by OP title alone.