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Does anyone know what's up with posters with no journal entries and no hearts this week? (Original Post) BKDem Feb 2020 OP
Beats me. :) n.t Brainstormy Feb 2020 #1
Ask them.🤷🏼‍♀️ LakeArenal Feb 2020 #2
No idea... n/t BeeBee Feb 2020 #3
Ahhh, thank you very much whoever gave me the heart! :) n/t BeeBee Feb 2020 #5
Maybe they aren't compulsive posters? jberryhill Feb 2020 #4
I never save to journal. Do I have to leave? IADEMO2004 Feb 2020 #6
We'll see. You're under journal mismanagement review. n/t Whiskeytide Feb 2020 #16
I never save anything either. TheBlackAdder Feb 2020 #42
I don't have any journal entries... Bettie Feb 2020 #7
I am new and stupid about these things. BKDem Feb 2020 #8
Users purchase them and then give them to others. dewsgirl Feb 2020 #54
I believe it's in your settings. dewsgirl Feb 2020 #53
someone was kind enough... quickesst Feb 2020 #9
?? Bots?? or Republ/Russian newbees scouting around.... nt mitch96 Feb 2020 #10
I don't want to be paranoid, but it comes naturally. BKDem Feb 2020 #11
It's a space on your account where what you post is stored lunatica Feb 2020 #24
Thanks. BKDem Feb 2020 #25
I thought you had to elect to add postings to the Journal eleny Feb 2020 #34
I'm not sure. I thought you had to elect them too lunatica Feb 2020 #35
I never noticed that option eleny Feb 2020 #37
Or people who like me whistler162 Feb 2020 #19
I've been here since 2003. Polly Hennessey Feb 2020 #12
Same here. Joined in 2004. 0 journals lynintenn Feb 2020 #22
I believe it's in your settings. dewsgirl Feb 2020 #55
Clearly we are up to nefarious schemes... MoonchildCA Feb 2020 #13
what's a "journal?" Nature Man Feb 2020 #14
Another place on the web for whistler162 Feb 2020 #21
Glad I missed that! Nature Man Feb 2020 #23
I love this post Zing Zing Zingbah Feb 2020 #51
After many years on DU, I still don't know what "journal entries" are, and I have no hearts. July Feb 2020 #15
I'm with you. BKDem Feb 2020 #20
Thanks, no need to apologize. Nt July Feb 2020 #30
What's a journal?😇 virgogal Feb 2020 #17
OK, never mind. BKDem Feb 2020 #18
LOL! lunatica Feb 2020 #27
"I still thought everybody got a heart this week" TwilightZone Feb 2020 #28
I post about once or twice per month tnlurker Feb 2020 #26
you don't have to have journal entries turned on Fresh_Start Feb 2020 #29
I've been a star member since 2008.. GentryDixon Feb 2020 #31
I don't say much. Been around for years. On a lot of juries. I got hearts last year. Have been notdarkyet Feb 2020 #32
I've been here since the beginning Cadfael Feb 2020 #33
Please! BKDem Feb 2020 #36
I've been here since 2002 mcar Feb 2020 #38
Hell no! BKDem Feb 2020 #40
If I knew there was gonna be homework I never would have registered for this! jcgoldie Feb 2020 #43
... mcar Feb 2020 #48
Journal? Dorian Gray Feb 2020 #39
No. BKDem Feb 2020 #41
I don't like Valentines Day DVRacer Feb 2020 #44
My fifth sad Valentines Day. IADEMO2004 Feb 2020 #47
I lost my sister to sepsis after a minor surgery DVRacer Feb 2020 #57
Wife's cancer fight ended on my sisters birthday. IADEMO2004 Feb 2020 #59
Some of us read several times a day (as I have since late 2001 - didn't register til Jan of 2002), salin Feb 2020 #45
Is there where you come to beg for hearts? Baclava Feb 2020 #46
Lol Zing Zing Zingbah Feb 2020 #49
I got no hearts easttexaslefty Feb 2020 #50
So tell us what's up with you Zing Zing Zingbah Feb 2020 #52
Me too. Mostly a reader. 🙃 SaveOurDemocracy Feb 2020 #56
Journal entries? lark Feb 2020 #58

quickesst

(6,280 posts)
9. someone was kind enough...
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 07:57 PM
Feb 2020

....to give me a heart today which should eliminate me from being the focus of conspiracy........or does it? 🤔

BKDem

(1,733 posts)
11. I don't want to be paranoid, but it comes naturally.
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 08:02 PM
Feb 2020

And the bots crank out a lot of strange stuff. What is a journal anyway? Is it different from a profile??

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
24. It's a space on your account where what you post is stored
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 08:31 PM
Feb 2020

That way you can go retrieve something you posted before. At the bottom of the window where your post is displayed there is usually a button you can click on to save to your journal.

eleny

(46,166 posts)
34. I thought you had to elect to add postings to the Journal
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 09:12 PM
Feb 2020

But our posts do go into the My Posts folder automatically. I think My Posts is limited in number, though.

I don't add my postings into the Journal.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
35. I'm not sure. I thought you had to elect them too
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 09:19 PM
Feb 2020

But for some reason mine go in to my journal. Maybe I made it permanent by accident.

eleny

(46,166 posts)
37. I never noticed that option
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 09:21 PM
Feb 2020

Frankly, I don't want all my posts in a place where they can be visited. I'm sure I've embarrassed myself a time or two. Or three!

 

whistler162

(11,155 posts)
19. Or people who like me
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 08:22 PM
Feb 2020

don't give a flying leap about hearts or journals!

I see I got a heart from somewhere......WHOOPIE!!!!!!!

Polly Hennessey

(6,747 posts)
12. I've been here since 2003.
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 08:05 PM
Feb 2020

I have no journal entries. I am not sure if anything I’ve said is journal worthy. 😦

 

whistler162

(11,155 posts)
21. Another place on the web for
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 08:24 PM
Feb 2020

people to ramble on about little or nothing and have it preserved forever.

July

(4,750 posts)
15. After many years on DU, I still don't know what "journal entries" are, and I have no hearts.
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 08:12 PM
Feb 2020

I’m here for the information and conversation, and I don’t care if anyone gives me hearts. I just want to hear what people have to say.

BKDem

(1,733 posts)
18. OK, never mind.
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 08:20 PM
Feb 2020

Profiles are different from journal entries. In my (timid) defense, if you click on a poster’s name, you get a green box that looks like a warning: Attention! Attention! No journal entries! Be suspicious! But the next tab is a profile.

But I still thought everybody got a heart this week.

I believe I’m on record as saying I’m stupid about this stuff

And paranoid.

TwilightZone

(25,342 posts)
28. "I still thought everybody got a heart this week"
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 08:38 PM
Feb 2020

The only reference I saw to that was a sarcastic post about how DU was giving everyone a heart to remind people to donate money. It was rather obnoxious, and I don't think it was based on anything legitimate. Perhaps you saw the same one.

tnlurker

(1,020 posts)
26. I post about once or twice per month
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 08:34 PM
Feb 2020

I have been a member since 2005 (Lurked long before that...thus my name) and I have fewer that 1000 posts so far. Somebody was offering hearts the other day and I did not ask for any. I have never had one given to me yet. The heart thing just doesn't seem to interest me that much

This place keeps me sane though knowing that many people think in similar ways as I do.

Thanks for everybody posting all the time. I appreciate all of the information I am able to get here.

GentryDixon

(2,944 posts)
31. I've been a star member since 2008..
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 09:01 PM
Feb 2020

lurked a few years before I purchased my first star. I have never posted to my journal, rarely post, so whether I have a heart or not is not indicative of my appreciation of this site.

DU is my first stop in the morning when I turn on my tablet.

notdarkyet

(2,226 posts)
32. I don't say much. Been around for years. On a lot of juries. I got hearts last year. Have been
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 09:03 PM
Feb 2020

Very dpresessed since the onslaught of the trump regime..)

mcar

(42,210 posts)
38. I've been here since 2002
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 09:21 PM
Feb 2020

I don't think I have any journal entries. I don't even know how to do that.

Should I leave?

DVRacer

(707 posts)
57. I lost my sister to sepsis after a minor surgery
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 11:20 AM
Feb 2020

Late January 5 years ago and her birthday is February 12th. She was the one big about the holidays.

IADEMO2004

(5,538 posts)
59. Wife's cancer fight ended on my sisters birthday.
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 02:58 PM
Feb 2020

Her family always spent holidays here and they still do. It's ok but sadness is just under the surface.

salin

(48,954 posts)
45. Some of us read several times a day (as I have since late 2001 - didn't register til Jan of 2002),
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 01:54 AM
Feb 2020

but don't comment much. I understand skepticism (and it has always been here - since I have been posting in 2002), but come on. Posters who aren't actively posting are now suspect of something?

Or am I misunderstanding the point of your post - and are you commenting on people raising questions like this - and pushing back - in which case - I thank you (because of the sentiments written above.)

lark

(23,003 posts)
58. Journal entries?
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 11:23 AM
Feb 2020

I have been on here since the disaster in 2000 and have never entered a single thing in a "journal". I have a couple of bookmarks, but that's it. I was lucky enough to get a few hearts though, for which I am thankful. Just saying a person could be a regular here and not have journals.

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