I have a question =

[Tuesday Afternoon]

What is 188 and why is it worthy of a hide?

[gollygee]

1. OMG I so wanted to ask that

I was going to post it but I don't know the rules about asking questions about hidden posts. LOL. I googled it and got nothing.

[theHandpuppet]

2. Context?

Is there a particular thread in question?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4997936

[seabeyond]

18. thanks. i was wondering too. was gonna say that was a bullshit hide for ohio joe. what? we are

not allowed to even say it is a bullshit hide? and i think george was not supporting the hide, but agreeing with ohio joe.

guessing. and remembering from this morning.

i saw 188 on another post too.

but, i agree with ohio joe.

do i get to say that? or is it a hide?

[shenmue]

5. It was a post number which had been hidden

The person seemed to be trying to get around the hide decision.

[DURHAM D]

9. I guess you are saying that the #188 was

the posters way of supporting Post 188 that was hidden.

Post 188 - http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024995511#post188

I can not even imagine the Alert message that got that Hide.

This place is pathetic.

[seabeyond]

20. agree durham. god forbid challenging MRA/PUA/misogyny. even civilly. even by merely saying i

agree with joe.

[hlthe2b]

22. Indeed...

The two most discussed threads in DU are both regarding this mass killer--one blaming all the world's woes on women (as apparently was in the head of this killer) and the other blaming "the gay".

UNBELIEVABLE.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. what post, where?

[shenmue]

13. In another thread

Sorry.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. found it, thanks. posted the link below.

[DURHAM D]

4. Glad you asked that.

I can't figure it out.

I noticed that four other posts were hidden in that thread and all four of them were feminists pushing back. Meanwhile, all the MRA tripe (including the OP) remains. I think the word goes out on some other website and they all open up their regular and sock accounts and wait to be called to a jury.

DU is in bad shape.

[DonCoquixote]

7. Can we go ahead and tell them to

play in their own yard (aka a site that rhymes with percussionist?)

[seaglass]

8. DU is in bad shape and Discussionist did not help. There needs to be a wall between the two.

And I had no idea what 188 meant, I thought it referred to post 188 but I didn't feel like scrolling around.

[theHandpuppet]

15. Yes, I noticed that, too

It's disgusting. They're not even trying to hide it anymore.

[JoeyT]

6. Well damn, now I want to know too.

And then three posts down there's a guy claiming women don't want weak men because they're not programmed to. That thread is full of awful.

Edit: Never mind. I see the post 188 now. Heaven forbid MRAs get called out, even by proxy. I'm not sure what the cutoff oughta be for not letting people post stuff here, but the SPLC designating them a hate group seems like it should be well past that mark. I doubt Klan or Neo-Nazi sympathetic posters would receive nearly as much slack.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. I found it --

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4997179

[nomorenomore08]

19. How about the guy who complained about being broadbrushed as a white male, while claiming

that black men are deadbeats and have too many kids? Irony much?

Not surprisingly, he's the same one who posted the OP trying to "understand" the woman-hating psycho who went on a killing spree.

[Maedhros]

21. Any poster - ANY - that posts that "poor white males - we've got it so rough!" BS

goes immediately on my ignore list.

If they are willing to post that drivel, then I'm reasonably sure that anything else them may say is equally worthless.

[DURHAM D]

11. The evening crowd is arriving to respond to this OP.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024999131

[redqueen]

23. Oh My Goddess.

Great OP but of course someone is there to chime in with the 'if only he'd hired a 'sex worker'' line.

[Squinch]

16. 188

was Ohio Joe's post that got a bullshit hide because he said, rightly, that he was seeing people use MRA justification for mass murder.

I saw it too.

[theHandpuppet]

17. I don't trust the jury system anymore

Of all the outrageous, bigoted, hateful threads and posts aimed at women and gays just these past few days, I notice it's only people who take umbrage to this bullshit who get their posts hidden.