Love how everyone is civil and nice here again ! So refreshing

[Laura PourMeADrink]

This discussion thread was locked by EarlG (a host of the General Discussion forum).

Thank you Earl !!!!! 💜

[cilla4progress]

1. ???

...

[BigmanPigman]

6. A couple of posters who were often

extremely argumentative, self righteous and exhibited bully behavior over a period of time have been suspended for breaking DU rules for posting and the poster's accounts also broke rules. I won't name names.

[cilla4progress]

11. Yikes!

Guess I'm out of the loop!

[BlackSkimmer]

14. Ah, the know-it-all "lawyer" and her socks.

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EarlG did well to catch that.

[LakeArenal]

16. "Socks". Ha good one.

Dirtiest socks in town!!

[BlackSkimmer]

21. I took a long break because of that one.

Welcome news when I read EarlG’s thread.

[hamsterjill]

52. Dirty indeed.

Couldn’t post a damn thing without her replying to “educate” me. I never understood the superiority complex she had. She could get down right ugly and I’m glad she’s not here any more. I hope EarlG stays alert for other possible incarnations.

[BlackSkimmer]

54. I doubt she was even a "she" or a lawyer.

But whoever it was sucked in a bunch of folks.

[hamsterjill]

58. You could very well be right.

She had (and still has) her fan club. I’m just glad to know that more than a few of us all figured it out and felt the same way. I felt her presence really took DU to a new low. I was glad to see it get handled.

[LakeArenal]

62. Yes. It's amazing how many of us felt the same.

There may be a bigger anti fan club as it turns out.

Anyway who knows how many of the fan club were really individuals.

[hamsterjill]

63. Exactly

I think many of us had the same idea as to that one thread asking where she was, with so many glowing responses. How many of those were her? LOL LOL LOL

I still have a sneaking suspicion that we don't know the whole story. Never will. And that's okay as long as it's been taken care of.

[BlackSkimmer]

69. I remember the name she coined for many of us.

I was actually amazed how long that lasted.

Some seemed to go out off their way to seek her approval. That’s when I just took a long break.

[SunImp]

47. Good riddance

Many of us have to deal with assholes and Magats daily. We don't need to fight with ourselves too

[FakeNoose]

59. LOL! I had them on "full ignore"

I didn't even realize they were gone.

[BigmanPigman]

60. I have the feeling that many people had them on "ignore".

They were so obnoxious about everything. Heaven forbid you disagree with them. Good riddance! Earl did the right thing.

[GusBob]

2. I'm just here for the sarcasm

But if you want front line sniping just hang out in the Omicron threads

[FarPoint]

3. I must of missed something....

Well...I welcome the upgrade in behavior, no matter what prompted the change...

[LakeArenal]

4. I am with you. 🥂

[BigmanPigman]

7. So am I!!!

It has been much more pleasant and not nearly as argumentative. I was afraid to post when the 2 DU members were on a thread for fear of being bullied by them. They did this all the time.

[LakeArenal]

17. ✔️✔️✔️✔️

[Crunchy Frog]

27. I had the main one on full ignore.

They could have bullied me til the cows came home and I wouldn't even have known about it.

[kcr]

28. Same

[BlackSkimmer]

34. I've never put any one an ignore, and instead I took a break.

I would probably have had to have done so if they stayed around.

[Crunchy Frog]

5. What happened? Could someone clue me in?

[Dr. Strange]

10. iverglas finally got banned!

Wait, no, that's not it.

[Crunchy Frog]

29. Seventh Son turned out to be a troll. Who'd have thought?

[Fix The Stupid]

30. Ahh... Seventh Son... remember those days?

I was a member here starting in 2003. Left for a bit and came back in 2012.

Seventh Son had this whole site believing a terror attack was happening in Minnesota or something...it was strange, but he was very convincing...

In the end, I believe he just straight up came out and said "gotcha!...made the whole thing up!" and was banned...

I can think of a few more from that time...

Remember Operation Mind Crime? That guy played us all...

Hmm.. should start an OP in the lounge on some of these old names from around here...see what other people remember...

[Crunchy Frog]

33. I think Seventh Son revealed himself the night Kerry "lost" the election.

And then convinced an entire breakaway forum that someone had hijacked his account that night.

I only vaguely recognize the 2nd name, and don't really remember them.

I do remember Padraig and Cuban Liberal who both turned out to be the same RW troll, and both took turns serving as moderators.

Ah the good old days.

[tishaLA]

46. Oh god. Pad and Cuban Liberal. I'd forgotten about them

and didn't Cuban Liberal have some fanciful tale about having a book published? IIRC nothingshocksme was onto that "pair" pretty early.

[Crunchy Frog]

48. I don't recall most of the details. Mostly just the shocking denouement.

It's getting to be a long time ago, and I'm sure my memory isn't what it used to be.

Still it's nice that we can get some entertaining drama here every once in awhile.

[AngryOldDem]

61. Lounge post isn't a bad idea.

Now I’m trying to remember the name of a DUer who went out in a blaze of glory…demanded Skinner to ban him. Skinner’s reaction: “OK.”

It was a DU legend for a long time.

[Crunchy Frog]

64. Walt Starr!

And it took me awhile to remember too.

Maybe someone should write a DU history book before all the memories fade.

[kcr]

71. Thank you

I was wracking my brains trying to remember their name. It seems like DU has been around forever now. So many memories.

[XanaDUer2]

73. Does anyone here remember Carlos?

I'm talking waaaayyy back in the early 2000s. He went on some cross-country odyssey we were all following for awhile.

Ah, DU memories.

[AngryOldDem]

76. That's it! Thank you!

[LakeArenal]

25. Seems one was actually two or more different folks on DU

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=1581928

[Crunchy Frog]

26. Yes, I read about it at the time. Didn't realize people were still talking about it.

I had my suspicions about one of them since practically their first post, (or first few thousand, made within a couple weeks of joining).

Still amazed at how popular they were in certain quarters here. Maybe I shouldn't be.

[BlackSkimmer]

35. It's kind of funny how many really fell for their act.

I was suspicious also from very early on.

[jalan48]

31. The tip off for me was that two high count posters that claimed to be lawyers never posted

at the same time on the same thread. It was obvious.

[hamsterjill]

53. Yeah and they posted ALL the time.

Wouldn’t high powered lawyers have other things to do rather than post continuously on a message board?

I asked her about that once and she got my post hidden. I think she made up the whole jury!!! LOL

[Crunchy Frog]

66. I think I had both of them on my jury blacklist.

[BlackSkimmer]

70. Same here.

Guess I need to update.

It’s funny, I forget about it and when I go to update, I frequently find many have left the building!

[XanaDUer2]

67. Amen, me too

Constantly posting. Was good at getting posts hidden, too

[XanaDUer2]

75. Earl posted a thread?

Didn't know that. Sorry your posts were hidden.

Glad he figured it out. Sad, what some lengths people will go to to...um, not sure what the purpose is. Boggling.

[Raine]

8. I guess I missed all the drama 🤔 glad that now there's✌️. nt

[malaise]

15. Same here

[NowISeetheLight]

9. Even LinkedIn has gotten bad

I was on LinkedIn yesterday and stumbled on a posting about DeSantis pissing off Biden due to Disney lifting their restrictions. The hostility of some of the posters there (all Trumpites) was astounding. A couple of them actually were threatening (a "former boxer" who offered free knuckle sandwiches to liberal posters there) and a lot of "FU" comments. I really showed restraint in not posting anything. Some of the posters were pushing vaccine lies and one commented about Florida having the lowest covid rate right now. I was tempted to post the overall deaths per 100k residents from covid since the pandemic began (Florida is very high) but didn't.

I actually reported several threatening and crude posts and received emails from LinkedIn stating they were deleted. I hoped they banned some of them too.

Thank you again for your report. Our Trust & Safety Team found XXXXXXXXX comment goes against our Professional Community Policies and have taken appropriate action.

We're committed to keeping LinkedIn safe and professional, so you can focus on finding jobs, making connections, and learning new skills. You can learn more about what we are doing to protect our members.

[Crunchy Frog]

12. There was much consternation in certain quarters.

I appreciate being able to see more of the posts here.

[LakeArenal]

18. Aren't you afraid that they will be back under few fake names?

[BlackSkimmer]

22. I fully expect it.

Trying to keep my spidey-sense finely tuned.

[LuckyCharms]

19. I will pay $33,000,000.00 to know who got banned.

This offer expires 1.25 seconds from the time of this post.

That's One Second and Twenty Five Hundredths of One Second from the time of this post.

That's One Second and One Quarter of One Second from the time of this post.

Offer is null and void after this time period.

[LakeArenal]

24. It turns out someone was at least two different DUers

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=1581928

[BlackSkimmer]

36. There was a third too.

They were always on the main one’s threads, always agreeing.

Disappeared at the same time just about.

[LakeArenal]

51. Tonedevil whose posting privileges have been revoked.

I don’t the difference between flagged and revoked.

Anyway Tonedevil was always on when Effie was on.

Then another lawyer type with a German name I think.

[BlackSkimmer]

56. That's not the one I was talking about, but I missed that one!

Had quite a little sock drawer there lol.

[SunImp]

65. Shame on that

Tonedevil seemed like a decent Duer

[LakeArenal]

68. Not a shame to me.

[Peacetrain]

20. I missed it..

But always thankful for civility!!!!

[LakeArenal]

23. But you know the result right?

[UTUSN]

32. Yea, thanks. But the internet/we/DU shall always have these with us!

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Bullying, self-righteous, herding, pretentious, pedantic, condescending, nannying, self-aggrandizing, gate-keeping, inciting mob swarms of flamefests.

Worse, they claim to be more Democratic than anybody, telling others what to think and post - oblivious to their complete violation of Democratic values of:

* free thought
* able to hear/monitor wingnut, or just opposing, voices without being contaminated
* (adding: ) THEIR demand that THEIR "freedom of speech" trumps everything


*********Worse again, they prefer to waste energy attacking fellow DUers instead of wingnuts out there

Stopping here before I turn into them.

[BlackSkimmer]

37. Best post on this subject. Wish I could rec it.

[GusBob]

39. I'll never forget what Skinner said after he formed DU

paraphrase: " I never knew how much Democrats hated one another"

[UTUSN]

50. And his/Admin rule: DUers need to adult/manage their own DU relationships, not run to Admin to do it

That is, letting the offenders know - NOT with personal attacks - to cut it out. Using the available tools: Reply/posts (civil), DM, Alert.

The flaw in this ADULT approach being that these posters seldom comply, demand that THEIR "freedom of speech" trumps everything

*** Adding "THEIR freedom of speech" to the list above!

[SunImp]

42. They also call people frustrated at the current syst immature & entitled for wanting a better life

Many of the frustrated people that they cruely mock are dying right now or are being forced into destitution because of how things work. They can't wait for things to get better forever.

[Crunchy Frog]

49. +1000. Beautifully sums up the phenomenon.

[BigmanPigman]

57. Bingo!

[XanaDUer2]

38. I used to wonder how busy professionals like lawyers

Could spend so much time on DU posting.

[BlackSkimmer]

40. I thought I was the only one!

Again, it still amuses me how many they fooled. People were convinced the poster was a strong woman lawyer, who was most likely some R male sitting in mom’s basement laughing his ass off.

[XanaDUer2]

43. No, did they ever come out

And say they were a lawyer? It was strongly hinted at.

[BlackSkimmer]

45. I know one of them did. I think both.

The third never made any such claim, and their grammar was always different.

Pretty clever, since they snookered so many.

[hamsterjill]

55. No. I actually asked that question.

She got pissed and my post was hidden.

[BlackSkimmer]

72. I think I remember that.

Same happened to me, hence my hiatus.

It was clear what was going on.

[obamanut2012]

77. Strong black women

(I sent you a PM, but I figured it out!)

They used to tell folks they were racist when they were questioned.

[BlackSkimmer]

78. Probably a white guy chortling over his keyboard.

He fooled quite a few.

[msfiddlestix]

41. ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️

me too.

[XanaDUer2]

44. Yeah, it was weird

[EarlG]

79. Done with this drama

Locking.