To all real DUers. Put on your thinking caps, use your critical thinking skills...

[Dream Girl]

Disrupters are getting more and more active in preparation for midterms. My advice before you join in a Hillary/Bernie discussion
1. Ignore the post
2. Trash the thread
3. Block the poster if you question their legitimacy (low post count or something else seems “off” in tone or language)

[boston bean]

1. Prior experience makes me very suspicious of those who love bernie AND find

all kinds of wrong about Hillary and the democratic party.

I agree many of those persons are here to do nothing but disrupt.

[R B Garr]

3. Yes, not only that, this is the second concern thread. nt

[lapucelle]

10. So are you wearing your thinking cap

and putting your critical thinking skills to good use?

I am.

[R B Garr]

12. Absolutely! Just adding it all up here.

[betsuni]

15. Is you an REAL DUer????

[R B Garr]

23. Heck, I am so REAL that I voted for the Democrat.

Always.

[Me.]

41. That's What I'm Wondering

Is there a list?

[Cha]

17. Yeah, what's up with that? Good Grief..

R B

[R B Garr]

40. Hey Cha! Yes, good grief is right.

The two OP's are quite concerning. Post no. 11 in the first one really illuminated quite a bit about what this was really about. Wow....

Cheers to you, Cha!

[Cha]

44. It's bizarre.. telling a board what they should

do 'cause.. reasons..

to our Blue Tsunami, RB, on Earth Day!

[Me.]

43. Don't Really Have Anthing To Say

Because there isn't anything to say about this. Just came by your post to say...

[Cha]

45. Hey Aloha, Me!

to our Blue Tsunami on Earth Day2018

[BannonsLiver]

4. Thats one side of it

The other is attacking our institutions. There was a blatantly obvious straight from Moldova thread doing that today that garnered dozens of recs. We need to not be suckers.

[ProudLib72]

8. What was that one?

Is it still up, or has it been deleted?

[Sherman A1]

2. While I appreciate your opinion, concern and advice

I am perfectly able to come to my own conclusions as to what discussions in which to engage and which to avoid along with whom to ignore and which threads to trash.

[Different Drummer]

5. This. n/t

[Honeycombe8]

27. True. I've been around here for a while. I can spot 'em.

They stick out like sore thumbs. Some others don't seem to recognize them.

[Dream Girl]

39. Exactly!

[lpbk2713]

6. Not much chance of that with me.

Both names are on my OP subject line ignore list. I found that
most posts with either name result in a poo flinging contest.

[Roland99]

7. I was going to post the same thing!

[Butterflylady]

9. Absolutely

If I see either Hillary's name or Bernie's name, it goes in the trash immediately. My trash bin is overflowing. Im not here to bash past, present or future candidates. I'm here to keep in touch with what's going on. Note: I do love the bashing tRump threads, so please do keep them coming. I have them all saved!!!

[Cryptoad]

11. Hillary and Bernie , Who????????

[Achilleaze]

13. The past is over

[mcar]

14. I'll make up my own mind

Thanks very much.

[Raine]

16. I'm done with those threads, they go into the trash. nt

[anneboleyn]

32. Same. And there are definitely more recently.

[MuseRider]

18. Ignore is a great feature!

I know of quite a few oldies with rather large post counts that I definitely consider to be trolls. I got rid of my ignore list after the election and have begun building it recently since there is simply no good reason to be going after those who are actively working for us except sour grapes and an inability not to fall in love with their candidate making letting go impossible. Anyone still fighting like they are are not thinking clearly and may never be able to after all the crap I have read here. I see quite a few must be posting to your OP. IGNORE the people you think are trolls or are making your experience less than informative. They have little to offer. Keeping them around to read the few things they post that are actually informative is just not worth it.

YMMV

[Tribalceltic]

19. Agreed with a vengeance!

I would like to ban any post with B* in it

[louis c]

20. Low post count. No star. Just joined DU. Disruptive content. Negative thinking.

We should all know the tell tale signs.

[FakeNoose]

24. And they're more likely to be in GD rather than LBN

I think it's because the rules for posting are a little looser in GD?
But the trolls will jump in anywhere they can to start an argument.

[MrScorpio]

21. If they're trolls and I come across them, I'm going to have a bit of fun with them...

Before they're shown the door.

[lunatica]

22. Yup. And during the Primaries just stay away

[Honeycombe8]

25. And do an alert, if that applies. nt

[Honeycombe8]

26. Well, we can't block, per se. We just place on ignore. Which ignores the problem. nt

[RandySF]

28. Legit Berners on DU support the party and won't start crap.

[sheshe2]

29. What is your definition of a 'Real DUer?'

Mine is to support our party and vote Democratic every time.

[Dream Girl]

38. Youll know if you are. I dont have a definition.

[Me.]

42. I'm Going To Check The Yes Box For you

[sheshe2]

47. Thank you.

[betsuni]

53. I left my thinking cap on the bus.

Is this computer real? Am I a real DUer? Are you? Is anybody? Does time exist? How do airplanes stay in the air? Why does sleeping make you thirsty? ... I need my thinking cap!

[sheshe2]

54. Why

Her hair. OMG!

[Aristus]

30. If anyone bashes HRC,

I either ignore them or *Ignore* them.

[Lil Missy]

31. Hillary is not running. And Bernie is not a registered Democrat. I dont think we have to worry abou

[smirkymonkey]

33. Hear, Hear!

[Kurt V.]

34. I read em, but never comment.

as the Buddha would probably say "many paths can lead to the same destination "

[Still In Wisconsin]

35. Hillary who? Bernie who?

Oh dang... now I have to ignore myself!

[elocs]

36. Well I've been at DU since near the beginning and have closing in on 19,000 posts,

but I just post here and don't consider myself to be a DUer. I'll stay for awhile and then when I've had enough of what I consider to be the preaching to the choir echo chamber I'll leave for a year or 2 and then check back in until I've had enough. I think my disenchantment with DU for long term came with the changes and redesign along with the juries and everything.
I still recognize many of the usernames from many years ago.

I believe there are still legitimate discussions about Bernie/Hillary--only 1 of whom is a member of the Democratic Party, but that some may not like to read what is written or vehemently disagree with it doe not necessarily make the poster a troll or we could just consider them all to be trolls and let god or a jury sort it out. I just hope Democrats can learn from past mistakes and keep a big tent, hanging together on the broad things they have in common rather than splintering (how Republicans love it when we do that because honestly, we love it when they do it as well).
The Democratic Party desperately needs to pass the torch to a new generation and as a senior citizen myself I would be more than happy to vote for candidates too young to collect Social Security and retreads from past elections rehashing past campaigns and making excuses for not winning. There are no perfect candidates overall and each of us cannot have our own personal and perfect candidate who is capable of being elected by millions of others.

So I'm here until I'm not which probably applies to all of us to one degree or another.

[elleng]

37. Yes, IGNORE!

[SidDithers]

46. What's a "real DUer"?...

Do "real DUers" like their porridge with or without sugar?

Sid

[Cha]

48. Well, you

are! Surprised? lol

[SidDithers]

49. I was worried there for a second...

16 years and 40,000 posts. I thought I might not be real.


And for the record, real DUers do eat their porridge with sugar.



Sid

[Cha]

51. I don't eat porridge but good on ya..

Whatever floats your boat.

You are not an apparition! "real DUers".. smh

[sheshe2]

52. Or hot, or cold.

[Stinky The Clown]

50. Add a TROLL ALERT that goes to MIRT instead of a jury and give MIRT the authority to act . . . .

. . . . on posters with post counts above their current remit.

[raven mad]

55. Already had each of these in mind. n/t

[betsuni]

56. I just saw that Republicans will be running against Hillary in midterms ...

("Hillary Clinton will star in GOP Midterm Plan" ) and the press calls Bernie Sanders the frontrunner for the 2020 election. Why wouldn't we discuss them? Maybe you meant something else. Without an example (hypothetical or real) I'm not sure what's considered "disruptive."