So how did you people come to DU?

[TheMightyFavog]

I've been here since 2002. I came here because fark.com used to regularly link to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots list.

I remember when Skinner had Principal Skinner as an avatar.

I remember Fox's resulting legal threat.

[OriginalGeek]

1. I've been here since last august

I was tired of arguing with conservative co-workers (and some friends) and not having some facts to back me up so I started googling for info on stuff and DU kept appearing in results. After reading a few days I knew I needed to stay.

[cyberswede]

2. Because of the Plaid Adder.

She had a regular DU column once upon a time. Great stuff.

[limpyhobbler]

3. Been here a couple months.

I had started a petition online and I was looking for forums to tell people about it. Liked it so much I stayed.

I found DU because it is linked from The Young Turks homepage.

[applegrove]

4. I was feeling badly for Americans, because Kerry had just lost, and so I joined the

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only discussion forum I knew of. It was a mixed board and got tired of the GOP roleplayers trying to muck up intelligent discourse by any means possible. People kept mentioning the DU. I joined in 2005.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear applegrove!

I just glanced at your profile, and you and I joined within days of each other! I joined on Thursday Feb. 3, and you on the following Saturday!

Happy DU Anniversary!

[libodem]

11. I also joined about that time

Close to both CP and Applegrove. Just after Kerry lost.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. We are a threesome, my dear libodem!

And DU has never been the same...

[applegrove]

14. Those have been productive years for democrats. Maybe we three had a tiny part in that!

[applegrove]

13. You are just darling Peggy. So we did.

[deucemagnet]

6. I found it in 2003

through the now-defunct hated.com.

[sakabatou]

7. I think it was the IHateBillOReilly site

[Angry Dragon]

8. I do not remember how I got here

I woke up one day and found myself here

[murielm99]

9. My brother told me about it,

because of Top Ten Conservative Idiots. I read for about a year, before joining in 2003.

[erinlough]

10. I started reading "SmirkingChimp" and followed the links here.

Then I stayed for a few years just reading, not posting. Finally I became a member. It is now a firmly established habit.

[flying rabbit]

15. The top ten conservative idiots brought me here

the bush regime kept me here.

[Neoma]

16. You'll laugh...

Because my mom's on here. I joined when I was 15 years old. She wanted me to be informed about the world.

[WCGreen]

17. Same time Bartcop got me here....

linking to the TTCIL

[rppper]

18. during bush's inauguration.....

i saw a banner on tv for DU being held up in the background, so i went to the site a few days later....there were less than a thousand people when i signed up.....

[dimbear]

19. It had to do with an extremely witty post on another forum.

That that forum's host didn't find so amusing.

[Tikki]

20. Was posting in a generic sites tiny political bulletin board when some...

winger suggested that the Liberals should all go to Democratic Underground
to post and that his ilk go to rimjob's hole.

That was 2002...been here since.

Tikki
ps...my last post on that site was some guy arguing with me because
I said I thought schwarzenegger was not as moral as some wanted to believe.

[quakerboy]

21. FDL

I was a regular reader at FDL, and then they changed their format, and it just was not working for me visually.

But in links, I found here. And it had a greater breadth. And a lounge. And I stuck around a while.

[Raven]

22. I was dragged here by a relative in 2001. :-)

[cliffordu]

23. I had some kind of industrial accident and wound up here instead

of the home for the unpleasant

[Iggo]

24. Followed a link from (probably) HuffPo...

...in the run up to the '06 midterms.

Made it official in late '07.

[TuxedoKat]

29. I think I got here through HuffPo too

now I rarely go there, but come here every day.

[whistler162]

25. By mistake.....

shoulda' made a right turn at Albuquerque

[pipi_k]

26. Yeah, it was

the Top Ten Conservative Idiots list for me, too.

I lurked for a long time before actually becoming a member

[unionworks]

27. tunneled out

Of the penitentiary and came out here.

[graywarrior]

28. Because Michael Moore took down his forum and I went nutz

so a friend directed me here in order to save lives.

[UTUSN]

30. From Media Whores Online, Buzzflash, and bit of lurking at Bartcop n/t

[hedgehog]

31. I was working nights, and checking on my

breaks to see how Dean was doing in the primaries.

[yellerpup]

32. I lurked from 2001 to 2004.

My good friend in DC introduced me to the site before he was banished forever. He tends to get hysterical at times but I love him anyway. Moving from Blue as Blue NY to the countryside in NC left me aching for some liberals (or at least Dems!) to talk to. We went to a Dem meeting for the county and met the other six Dems there... They opened and closed every meeting with a prayer. We are not Christian, so we didn't pray and even those folks stepped lightly around us. That spring, I finally signed up and joined. Been her ever since.

[LiberalEsto]

33. Buzzflash and democrats.com

In 2001 I was so freaked out about the new bushcheney regime that I was reading buzzflash and democrats.com daily. Found links to DU and followed them here.

[trueblue2007]

34. I DON'T REMEMBER

I WAS HERE BEFORE 2007. that is my user name. i think i came here in 2005.

I LOVE DU

[Tripod]

35. A friend of mine showed me DU.

Great web site. I joined right away, and I love it. I learn so much, and like to socialize here. Thanks DU, and all who are here.

[Broken_Hero]

36. My wife's co-worker recommend this site to me

I came here the day after Kerry lost, read for about 6 months, and joined in May of 05.

[Broderick]

37. Can't recall what I had for dinner last night

Certainly I can't remember what brought me here almost a decade ago.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

38. turned left and there it was.

woot.

[underpants]

39. From a Will Pitt article being trashed on FreeRepublic

2001. I joined DU in October of that year.

[Nikia]

40. My husband recommended it to me and has regretted it ever since

Because he thinks that I spend too much time here.
I don't know if he ever posted on DU or he just lurked. If he did post, I don't think that he has posted since I have been.

[GoCubsGo]

41. I used to frequent Buzz Flash.

They linked to "Top 10 Conservative Idiots", which I miss terribly.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

42. A college teacher of mine said something about it once.

So I checked it out! Thank You Mrs. Kilby, wherever you are!

[Grantuspeace]

43. I followed a google link on Emo Phillips and it brought me to the lounge.

Occasionally I poke my head out into GD or Good Reads, but I have been here ever since!