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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow is it possible for a single DU'er to be posting virtually 24/7?
Is that normal on here?
I don't suppose it's a crime to look at the posting history of other DU'ers. Out of curiosity and to satisfy my analytical side, I did a random sample of those who hit the REC button to certain threads and guess what? They must be superhuman. They're on here posting literally, at least, every 30 minutes, around the clock and multiple subjects.
What, don't these people sleep or work or have a life outside of DU?
You cannot view past posting hours beyond the last 24, but they're posting as many posts at 3 AM as at 3 PM, 9AM or 9PM, etc...? Coincidentally, these same users are quite outspoken, having a controversial opinion on virtually everything. What are they, Harvard graduates on 5 Hour Energy? I'm outspoken as any of you, but JC!!!
Trying to understand how that is possible. Mind consuming more and more resources trying to solve the riddle. Shutting down other unnecessary body functions, taking up more processor time, steam coming out of my ears, still unclear how that's possible...
I post a lot, but 24 hours would be a real feat.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)I do it, anyone can.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Humans have to sleep sometimes, even minus a life.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)!) I am retired and going through a bad patch of stuff death, illness etc dogging my family.
2) I have a 15 year old dog that has to pee a lot and wakes me at least every 4 hours to pee. So while I wait for her in the yard, I post and this is the only board where people post in the middle of the night,
Rex
(65,616 posts)Just thinking about it, I could be there too since after hitting my 40s I have to get up EVERY NIGHT now and pee.
Vattel
(9,289 posts)Hekate
(90,978 posts)....a feature I've liked, since I'm a born nightowl.
yuiyoshida
(41,869 posts)Must be the Asian Teas I drink, some have more caffeine than others. I am either here, on twitter and another website. By the way, I work at home..and yes I work from this very computer. Its allowed me a great amount of freedom, and most of the time, I chose to stay at home, snuggle in my blanket, and see what's new in the world.
nadine_mn
(3,702 posts)People ask why I am up at 2am, and it's because my old girl needs to go...and I need to wait patiently for her. She also likes to make sure she has re-sniffed everything in the yard.
Today I slept in - my 17 yr old cat woke me up at 2:30 by stepping on my face for food. I stayed up to see my husband off to work because the dogs have to potty at least 2x before we can go back to bed.
DU and Facebook keep me company
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)hollysmom
(5,946 posts)at first I found the person annoying, but when they started collecting money for something I got suspicious. When I complained to the mods, they obviously knew the person who was hiding under a new ID and defended that person and threatened to ban me for looking for that person on that board and on others. I was on disability at the time, had lots of free time and like I said this person was collecting money with really no posting history, and I had been posting there for years and and felt there was something wrong. Well, for one thing this person and some mods immediately took a hostile attitude toward any questioning like who are your to question this person handling hundreds of dollars that did not exist 2 weeks ago. It was later shown this person was nuts, riling people up with fake stories about another person, and was not donating money but living off it. And I was the person who got banned.
Sock puppets and the people that protect them, heh. And why were almost every post they did bumping threads. the good news is the owner of the board got involved and fired the mods. The owner had just had a baby and much more important priorities, I had to contact her through an old e-mail I found from years before when it was a small start up group. who knew that there is so much intrigue on-line? The crazy person survived on other boards for a while longer, but eventually everyone got to see the manipulation of the crazy.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)I am also aware of the improbably active posters, those who appear to be industry shills and on the other side, those who post an endless stream of seemingly random items or psychotic rantings, and those who simply lie dormant between election cycles and reemerge to toot a particular candidate. All that is to be expected.
There is the related problems of sock puppets and on-line begging and frauds. I'm just glad I don't have to try to manage this place. That would be a nightmare, without enough fun or money in it. My hats off to the owners and the mods, who generally do a great job regardless.
NJCher
(35,804 posts)How can you say that--"not have a life?" I think it's just a different version of a life. Who says that all worthwhile life interaction has to be face to face (f2f)?
I'm not saying it's the same as RL (real life), but it's a relatively new option. I think it suits the needs of various people. At the point I am writing this, I have read all posts on this thread. I see that many people have offered their own life situation up as possible rationales for having a lot of posts. None of them, or very few of them, meet the extreme that was pointed out in the OP, however.
I think both the OP and answers are all very interesting. If i wasn't so tired, I'd have much more to say on this issue. Maybe I can return tomorrow.
Cher
eridani
(51,907 posts)JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)redruddyred
(1,615 posts)that and the "too disabled to go to college or hold a job to some exacting ableist arsehole's standards but well enough to write on the internet all day" paradigm.
I'm speaking to my senator about it on thursday, what a waste of taxpayer money i am.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)leeroysphitz
(10,462 posts)or until golden brown.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)I Am PostBot 3000.
I Am PostBot 3000.
error...error...error...
ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)metroins
(2,550 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)Kali
(55,027 posts)and seem to have a good supply of caffeine. I have seen a few with something on the order of 100 posts per day for months on end.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Are you sure it's not methane?
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Just trying to provide the benefit of the doubt.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I used to live down the street from a bar where I would occasionally stop in for a drink.
Every time I was there, I'd see the same people sitting there and I used to think "Damn, those people must be problem drinkers, because they're here every time I come."
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)JI7
(89,283 posts)ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)I can be gone for hours and hours or even days, come back and read and rec everything on the greatest page or everything I've missed - I often do that.
fun n serious
(4,451 posts)I'm happy to see you here. I don't post often here but I am online a lot. Here is my reason as I suspect many have the same reason but do not disclose..
I have a rare disease that has kept me from being able to work for the last 4 years. My husband works so I am OK financially. I often can not have a regular sleep schedule due to pain. I take a couple of hours here and there. I do not sleep just at night.
polly7
(20,582 posts)I hate that you're having to deal with this. Chronic pain affects every minute of the day and night - if posting here or anywhere else takes your mind off it even a tiny bit I hope you do it more often, though with a family, that's not as easy as it sounds. I wish I could take away your pain.
fun n serious
(4,451 posts)I care deeply for you. I'm OK really. I'm home with my family and even get my grand-baby on weekends. But Yes, DU is a very good pain distraction. I think a lot of us here are on similar situations. My 30 year old and my 24 year old flew the coop. I just have my 12 year old home now and he is a good kid. Really easy.
polly7
(20,582 posts)Your home life sounds great - it must be wonderful to have a baby to cuddle/spoil every weekend, and I'm glad your little guy is so good - I cannot believe he's twelve already. I also can't believe your other kids are that old - I remember your picture and you looked 16 - that wasn't nearly long enough ago to have changed too much. It was a good surprise to see you back here posting and I'm happy you're enjoying it. Yes, there are many here who post - whenever - for reasons all their own, and I haven't seen anyone here who says they've been harmed by it. I still laugh at some of the things we went through and did all those years ago now - we really weren't angels, heh, .... but whoah those people we were arguing with were something else.
fun n serious
(4,451 posts)My little man now Jayden he is the love of my life he is 2 and a handful. I haven'y aged well at all. I know I looked young in my 30's but yikes not anymore. Polly, those people we fought against were today's Trump and Cruz supporters. They're ugly. They're nasty. The war in Iraq was an inhumane slaughter of Muslim Arabs by Americans for absolutely NO reason. I still do not know the reason. Those people we battled were cheering the massacre and rape of innocent lives. They deserved every bit of nasty we threw at them and then some. I couldn't wrap my mind around it except to say there must be some humans who just have no souls. It was awful.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)its sad actually.
Duppers
(28,130 posts)How about educational and entertaining? And for us news junkies it might be a bit of escapism from some personal problems.
Go easy, okay.
Blus4u
(608 posts)Peace
TheDormouse
(1,168 posts)Purveyor
(29,876 posts)that in the morning, couldn't construct a 2 word sentence but lo and behold, by the evening hours was quite eloquent in their writings.
IIRC, I had a post hidden for questioning that oddity.
ffr
(22,676 posts)I'm actually surprised one of them isn't on here find a way to ban my OP. Was half tempted to not hit the Submit button, because of it.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)cprise
(8,445 posts)at times when they don't sound up to their par, or at least coherent.
People sharing accounts would be a more likely explanation if their is a consistent departure in quality or style.
I saw that here too. One poster was timed out but appeared to use a pal's account. The difference in capitalization, spelling, grammar, etc. was more than obvious. Coincidentally - every time that person was timed out the writing style for the other often changed.
cprise
(8,445 posts)...not really the shenanigans you're describing.
Here's an example... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017342815#post4
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)To whom it may concern: The OP thinks the people he's referring to look like this:
Something smells.
ffr
(22,676 posts)I basically asked who are these super human people on here, writing all these controversial posts, throwing out red herring fallacies to distract from the original question? Who are these troll-like individuals who add nothing constructive to the discussion, yet feel the need to post commentaries, with the intent to cast suspicion?
Why would anyone do that? Unless perhaps they (and I use they, loosely) were, as I said earlier, really from some far-off land, working in shifts 24/7, spreading deceit and discourse, as if with an agenda.
cprise
(8,445 posts)Shouldn't you take a look in the mirror, casting vague unproductive aspersions against DUers?
Red-baiting for the Clintons isn't an agenda?!
Matt Filipowicz has been on DU since 2005 and has only 3600 posts. You need some kind of help with your reading comprehension or something.
ffr
(22,676 posts)without thinking first.
If the words I wrote don't apply to you, why get upset? What you wrote added nothing productive to my thread. By what others wrote, it sounds like you're in the minority.
cprise
(8,445 posts)that would make a McCarthyite numbskull suspicious.
matthewf
(3,781 posts)Hi. I'm Matt. I'm the person IN the video. I host a progressive talk show.
I've been on DU since the Bush administration.
So, I'm confused. Am I some kind of right wing spy?
R B Garr
(17,004 posts)and can't spend much time composing, but they get home on their home computer/laptop with a regular keyboard and have much more time and flexibility to type so the quality/quantity goes up.
Phone typing is svck, and I have a fairly large phone. I can't imagine it on a smaller iPhone. Punctuation and editing goes out the window. Some phones insert the last words you type every time you move the cursor to a location you want to edit. Imagine trying to punctuate a word when the last word is typed and then you have to erase all that extra crap. It's quite tedious. I admire those that are even moderately proficient at it, and I know they're out there. Some just do enough to get by, lol.
Milestone
(37 posts)Do the math on one of the 100,000 + posters. Works out to roughly one post every 20 minutes 24 hours a day every single day for 13 years.
My best guess is multiple trolls and operatives working the same accounts.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)in 2.5 hours. Heck, you just have to be opinionated if you can type. 2.5 hours is still a lot of time in a day.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Milestone
(37 posts)Seems I used the weathervane calculator. Using real math it's more like every 68 minutes huh?
Skittles
(153,261 posts)people have writing styles and make the same spelling and grammar errors; it's not hard to notice it's different people if you study those styles
they are usually pimping for or against something in particular
BuelahWitch
(9,083 posts)for many years. Welcome to the club!
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)I have looked at peoples posts myself
first, I have an old dog who wakes me in the middle of the night to let her out. SoI tend to get at most 4 hours sleep at a shot and I tend to get on the computer and people are up and posting here until I can go back to sleep, so that is my excuse.
Now I was involved in an interesting situation where someone came out of nowhere and was suddenly a "trusted" person and collecting money for stuff. I went and checked them out they had over 2000 posts in only 2 weeks, mostly bumping other posts. I figured since the mods were backing them, they must have been signing in and posting as her to get the post count up. Then the style of her posts seemed familiar, I am pretty sure that she was someone who I had been posting with for years on a different board, but thought she had been going off the rails for a while (when you post that you are sneaking on the computer because you promised you husband you would spend time with your 3 year old and stay off the computer - something is very wrong. Then she would talk about how she was supposed to be in a meeting at work but wanted to post something. I figured she was going looney tunes, so when this strange person suddenly shows up collecting money I was very concerned, when I complained to the mods abut this , I was told it ws none of my business and I had to stop accusing people of stuff. yadda yadda, well, she eventually got banned everywhere when she started talking really weirdly, could not account for other money people gave her, and then you hear she has been fired and her husband ws divorcing her and keeping custody of their child. whee. bonkers. So yes, I have looked at other people's history and compared different id posts, heh. I did not even scratch the surface of the insanity about fake pregnancies and other whacko stuff.
ffr
(22,676 posts)They haven't shown up yet, but I'm sure they will here soon to say something controversial.
bluedigger
(17,088 posts)It was an achievable goal, too.
Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)bluedigger
(17,088 posts)Mostly, I hung out with staff from the American Star (Hunter S. Thompson wrote for them decades before) at El Betey, a few blocks up the hill. They closed from 4-6 AM so...
Aerows
(39,961 posts)but I can't figure it out, either. I've read about people that don't sleep, but they can't stay butt-planted 24/7 - every one of them that I have read about needs vigorous exercise to maintain themselves.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)usually set for threads about Glenn Greenwald.
Maybe there's one for auto-reccing?
RepubliCON-Watch
(559 posts)When you have nothing else to do I guess
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Nobody gives me any damn Spring Break, and I could make better use of one.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)claim to have children.
That makes me sad.
I can't imagine if my mother had been sitting on a keyboard all night and day. On the other hand, maybe the kids are the same now.
It's very sad actually.
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)I can't believe you invested so much time researching this and writing about it.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)In the final analysis, who cares?
Sanity Claws
(21,863 posts)Coke?
Rex
(65,616 posts)blogslut
(38,021 posts)It's not like posting is hard. I can think of worse things than enthusiastic participation on a message board.
salin
(48,955 posts)shared accounts - and puppet accounts - double bonus: puppet accounts from a single poster who introduced his boyfriend to the forum, who became a poster - except he wasn't a boyfriend he was the original poster. All sorts of drama ensued. What trips folks up - as appears in an example up thread - inconsistency.
SamKnause
(13,114 posts)I rarely leave my home.
I need very little sleep.
The first thing I do when I wake up is click on DU.
I post all day and into the night.
Sometimes I post all night and take a nap during the day.
beergood
(470 posts)thats the first thing that came to mind for me. there are probably hundreds of DU'ers with slimier issues.
SamKnause
(13,114 posts)I know you didn't.
Just kidding.
I think you meant similar.
I am still chuckling.
Have a wonderful evening.
beergood
(470 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Its easy to set that up apparently.
At least that's what I've heard.
Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)The autobots are way too busy fighting the decepticons to post on DU. Here is proof:
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Ok, that's pretty cool.
applegrove
(118,880 posts)dlwickham
(3,316 posts)but I wouldn't necessarily say they're all GOP
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Matariki
(18,775 posts)ladjf
(17,320 posts)ffr
(22,676 posts)I only checked up on one. They finally did take a break this afternoon, after 69 counted recommends and about half as many brief posts over a 15 hour marathon on here. Can't seem actual times beyond midnight last night. Their pace quickened during the AM hours, then tapered off and stopped this afternoon.
So maybe some of them are like those who posted on here about their strange hours and it's just a lot of really passionate individual people. That or they're laying low because they saw this thread and didn't want to make it any more obvious than it already was.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Especially during the weeks I'm on call overnight. I work four weeks on day shift then two weeks as the on call overnight person. Most of those nights pass without any calls or anything else to do, in which case we can sleep all night, but I have been woken up in the middle of the night before to help. This has kind of led me to sleep with one eye open most nights when I'm on call, and when I can't sleep sometimes I pop on to DU and post something, even if it's the middle of the night.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)...that much is clear.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)could keep one up at all hours of the night.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)By Eleanore Roosevelt.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)A whole range of things.
If they have no other life, this becomes their life.
I can think back to a LONG time ago, I spent 24 hours in a chat room...I finally felt so bad, that I laid down on the floor by the desktop because I was so dizzy when I stood up, I was afraid I would fall.
Talk about curing me of that!
Omaha Steve
(99,832 posts)It does happen. There are some DUers with several IDs too.
OS
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Maedhros
(10,007 posts)They take shifts controlling the user ID.
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eleny
(46,166 posts)Since you've spent time studying the posting habits of some members here you must have some conclusions of your own.
Gene Debs
(582 posts)yes, they usually are extremely outspoken. You'll find it anywhere, not just here.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)there are paid posters online when you answer the following 3 questions:
1) Do some people and/or corporations spend a lot of money on public relations?
2) Do PR agencies know about the internet?
3) Do any people exist who would accept money in exchange for posting on the internet?
840high
(17,196 posts)laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)I think it was in my marketing textbook back when I was in business school (heck, that was first year so it was known at least 6 years ago)...paid "PR" (aka trolls) online is quite popular. Usually they are sent to certain message boards to simply 'talk up' certain products or companies or ideas related to those things. You can usually identify them because they tend to post mostly about a single issue.
It's quite a cost savings for companies, as they can actually reach more people online for much cheaper than with television or radio ads. So yeah, it happens. A lot.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)only interested in advancing certain points of view. All of them align perfectly with the wealthiest and most powerful players in the respective fields.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)classified as "having a life"
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)How sad does your life have to be that you take notice of other anonymous ppls posting habits.
Festivito
(13,452 posts)Capturing the eye of a large donor who picks up tuition.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)but it isn't really that late here. I can post at midnight and it's 4:00 a.m. on the East Coast.
Plus, I'm retired, so I don't keep regular hours. You won't likely see me before noon EDT, though.
polly7
(20,582 posts)and that was years ago, though now I usually do only transfers unless someone is out sick and I take a shift or two. I am a horrible insomniac, always a bit anxious at night thinking I might miss a call - even though when I do fill in for real calls I don't even stay at home. Not sure if that ever leaves you, but it would be nice if it did. But I do books for a small oilfield construction company too so do have a real reason to be on the computer .... and all my favourite sites are always open. Good multi-tasker here. But as soon as the snow goes (it was gone, until today! and we got 6 inches) I will be gone fixing up my new old money-pit!!
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)My sleep is very sporadic at best - despite enough meds that'd knock out an ordinary person for several days. I go to sleep around 10:00 pm, I wake at midnight and I'm up for at least an hour, then I'm up again at 3:00 for another hour then again at 5:00 for another hour. I usually wake up for real at 7:30 for the rest of the day.
Aside from that, I'm retired on disability and don't work anymore. I have a wife and two kids, but if it wasn't for them I'd probably sleep like that on and off again all day and just about never get out of bed. My wife certainly isn't willing to wait on me in bed like a nurse so I have to get out of bed to eat. I've thought getting a bed pan and/or depends adult diapers, but I do r even have to know her answer to that question before I ask it.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)I've actually been doing really good recently. I've gotten myself into a routine where I go to the local old folks home several times a week and play the piano in their lobby for several hours a week. I do it mostly for my own sake (I get lost in the music and it makes me feel really good about myself0, but the staff and patients really give me a lot of good feedback for my efforts and seem to like it.
I'm getting ready to buy a house, I'm thinking about trying to ease my way back into the workforce, and my relationship with my wife is getting much better. Honestly, things are really looking up compared to where they were this time last year.
Thanks,
Victor
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)You've had a hard road.
ornotna
(10,807 posts)3,126 post since '09. Slow down slick, you're making me dizzy.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)ornotna
(10,807 posts)I couldn't help myself.
George II
(67,782 posts)It's mind boggling that one person would spend so much time on a single website.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Doesn't life get in the way?
madville
(7,413 posts)about links between introverts and internet/social media addiction. It's interesting stuff, especially how the perceived anonymity empowers people to display their persona in a way they never would/could in real life or create a new one entirely.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)There are always a certain percentage of people who live their lives virtually, for whatever reason.
Or multiple people using the same account?
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)This is their life. Let them have it.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)madville
(7,413 posts)I'm an introvert myself, being around people in real life (once I finally got sober for good) makes me very uncomfortable. Interacting through the internet can morph into it's forms of addiction and compulsion though.
libodem
(19,288 posts)That.
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Vinca
(50,323 posts)And why might anyone care?
Mike Nelson
(9,978 posts)...more than one person is working the account? It could be someone working for a campaign or cause - making sure their candidate or cause gets more positive posts and recs. If so, they are wasting time and/or money!
greendog
(3,127 posts)....in the Australia Group. 8000 miles apart. How is that possible?
fun n serious
(4,451 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,064 posts)greendog
(3,127 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,064 posts)stonecutter357
(12,698 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,064 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,064 posts)In addition to general guidelines, bloggers are also provided with "technical tasks" - keywords and talking points on specific issues, such as Ukraine, Russia's opposition and relations with the West.
One recent technical task, former employee Lena told Radio Liberty, was devoted to the murder of prominent Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov.
"It was mandatory to convey the message to the people that Nemtsov's murder was a provocation ahead of the [opposition] march and that he was killed by his own associates," she said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31962644
steve2470
(37,457 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)licking the crumbs from between the keys.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)Some of them average out to 100 a day
Response to ffr (Original post)
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Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)as long as it is not "disruptive", which I don't think this thread is.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Obviously they're married.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)people about that you have already apologized for a hundred times. Then they start contacting your family and friends because they investigated you to the point that they feel comfortable going after and targeting your relatives over a post you made on a webiste that they do not participate in.
How they post the message you apologized for previously on your twitter feed and threaten your relatives and say nasty racist things to people who they would be scared to walk down the same street as.
Because some people actually have nothing going on in their lives besides the internet. They are sad sad hopelessly sad people if they are posting 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Hekate
(90,978 posts)They're obsessed stalkers.
I hope you've removed as much of your personal info as possible from the totally-public sphere.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I hope they have too because the folks they are bothering have done time.
teach1st
(5,936 posts)Sorry, but because of a shortage of time, I couldn't recommend this post.
I'm on DU a lot, but I average just one post each day, so I'll see you all tomorrow.
Duppers
(28,130 posts)Sleeping in spurts makes me weird but even I cannot keep up with the reading, posting, and recording that you're describing.
My guess, there's a household of friends sharing the same account?
FourScore
(9,704 posts)Loki
(3,825 posts)you do not talk about the posting club. The second rule.......is you do not talk about the posting club.
Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)Cocaine is a hell of a drug...
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)An internet identity, characters typed into a little database. Could be a person, persons, an entire office, a program, a paid huckster.
Let it go. Try something that doesn't involve sitting for awhile. We are learning that sitting for more than 20 min at a time might be worse for us than we think.
Anyway, for what it's worth...
djean111
(14,255 posts)Always have 5 or 6 windows open, off on tangents. Don't sleep much.
Never once occurred to me to analyze other posters' information, though.
TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)Of course, the more obvious explanation is that some of the DU identities are just sock puppets for propaganda groups.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... timey wimey... stuff.
RandySF
(59,613 posts)Lorien
(31,935 posts)it went by the name "Prosense"; it was able to post multiple threads and responses within seconds and it never slept. It was protected by juries here. It always had hundreds of links to post to back up it's assertions, but the links rarely had anything to do with the topic. It also never shared personal information of any kind about itself. It would never directly respond to a question other than to post a link. Maybe this is the same entity with a different name?
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)They said online personas are just that. Simply sick-puppet profiles managed by military contractors, foreign government contractors, security contractors and corporations. No one has any idea which ones but only those who live in a dreamy fantasyland don't accept the system being gamed.
cprise
(8,445 posts)Hekate
(90,978 posts)...and that would be me sometimes.
slipslidingaway
(21,210 posts)have had much of a life outside DU.
They always had numerous links that skirted the discussion of a particular topic and could lead one astray, but they did this with a variety of topics.
But if you hinted at how that was possible, others would be at the ready to defend.
KT2000
(20,601 posts)west coast people whose posts show up at 4 AM are actually posting at 1 AM. A 4 PM post is 1 PM. As for 24/7 - who knows. Also there are paid "influencers" here.
one_voice
(20,043 posts)3 months of hosting. When my 3 months are up, my posts drop a lot.
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)you have people with really 90 day post counts
I post a lot but there are posters who have three and four times the count I have. Just makes you wonder
Chan790
(20,176 posts)I generally only sleep 4-5 nights/week and a cumulative total of about 36 hours.
flygal
(3,231 posts)laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)In the past, when I had more time to read, I would notice some people were practically in every thread, posting constantly, faster than I was able to read/catch up with every thread and I was ONLINE CONSTANTLY at the time. Even had I been driven to post a lot, I never could have kept up - and I'm a fast reader and typist. So, my only answer to that is some people either have software to notify them of certain types or threads, or some people share the same usernames, or something else I haven' t thought of. But even during my days of being a stay at home mom with a tiny infant who I would nurse all day and in the middle of the night in front of the computer (my chosen nursing spot) I never managed to be online as much as some of these posters. And I was obsessed with DU for a long time.
I even tried to keep up at one point in time and didn't even come close, LOL. I still had to sleep several hours a night, LOL, and my kids, though the old ones were in school during the day, still needed attention and needed to be fed (and of course I gave a shit about them, so I wanted to be with them as well). Yeah, I don't know how people do it. Now that my kids are older and basically take care of themselves, when I'm not working and I'm online, I don't get interrupted and there's no way I can keep up. They must have some kind of help, it's impossible in many cases for a single human being to post that much.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)hfojvt
(37,573 posts)For myself.
I generally turn in at 3 AM, sometimes later depending on what I get involved in. I work in the evenings something like 8 to midnight or 9 to 1, so I can get up whenever I feel like it.
Sometimes, for whatever reason, I don't sleep that long. Maybe the dogs wake me up or the sun does. So I am up at 9:30 AM. Generally I am on the computer from the time I get up until the time I turn in, with some exceptions. I had a one hour lunch meeting and then three hours of volunteering at the free community meal today.
Probably a schedule like mine is not typical.
revbones
(3,660 posts)And I work from home so I tend to check in fairly often - probably much more than I should for my blood pressure...
either your blood pressure, or your work output.
Suddenly I look around and think "I haven't done a bloody thing all day."
revbones
(3,660 posts)Solly Mack
(90,798 posts)But then that would require a level of attention and energy I'd rather use on more important things, like dust bunnies.
I enjoy dust bunnies. A lot.
ebayfool
(3,411 posts)Speak to me of dust bunnies - mine are out of control.
Solly Mack
(90,798 posts)dust bunnies can be quite tribal (a bed bunny will never be a couch bunny) and if you observe long enough, you'll see that they are a lot like us.
ebayfool
(3,411 posts)I shall name a dust bunny after you!
Solly Mack
(90,798 posts)Course the real reason I observe dust bunnies is because I'm too lazy to sweep.
ebayfool
(3,411 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)a fresh cup of coffee, a bathroom break, post on DU for a few, more nap (or bird watching) time.
Anymore questions?
[img][/img] BTW The coffee pot is never empty at my house.
pampango
(24,692 posts)without rest or nourishment or ever losing an argument. Finally a super hero we can believe in.
Orrex
(63,260 posts)I mean 49,075.
Snarkoleptic
(6,002 posts)It's quite likely that there are active sockpuppets being run by groups and individuals on DU.
Below is an excerpt, but this is a chilling must-read article-
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/16/945768/-UPDATED-The-HB-Gary-Email-That-Should-Concern-Us-All
But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA - whose enemies are labor unions, progressive organizations, journalists, and progressive bloggers, a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet.
According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HBGary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.
underpants
(182,988 posts)A way of saying "interesting but I don't have a comment" or a thanks for the work someone has put in. At least that's what I've found.
Some of us have regular DU Windows but others, I guess, are here almost continually. Look at my post count and tell me which kind I am.
liberal N proud
(60,351 posts)If it is more than one person there would be some variation is how sentences were structured and the tone of the threads would vary.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,941 posts)Mary Mac
(323 posts)So Far From Heaven
(354 posts)Phentex
(16,334 posts)I notice things on DU (and elsewhere) that make me go hmmmm. And if you've been here long enough, you will spot some "interesting" things yourself.
But I'll take it to PM now.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I bet they are still missing.
ffr
(22,676 posts)But I haven't given it much thought. Every time I log in now, or just about, I'm asked to serve on a jury and by the time I'm done being the best judge I can be, I'm kind of burned out from doing anything more.
ProfessorGAC
(65,334 posts)You could hit 100k posts by posting every 68 minutes each day for 13 years.
If you sleep 7 hours and spend 9 hours working, it's still only a post every 23 minutes. Now, say that you just spend 2 hours on DU instead of 8. That's still only a post every 5.75 minutes.
Since every post is not a novel, a post every 345 seconds is not that much.
On top of that, i know someone who was a mod, spent time on MIRT, and was a host of a group. In a couple hours one was MIRT'ing or hosting, a post a minute is pretty likely. That's 120 a day. So, just a month of that is 3600 posts.
It's not as weird as you are suggesting.
ffr
(22,676 posts)recommending and posting.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I'm just trying to find a single DU woman to date
Buns_of_Fire
(17,209 posts)This is what you do when you're retired, broke, and suffer from insomnia.
But since I've developed new software that allows me to turn on the camera at the top of everyone's screen, it's gotten more interesting.
Oh, and if __________ is reading this (you know who you are), please stop posting in the nude. It's very disturbing.
R B Garr
(17,004 posts)just in the GDPrimaries forum. Break down the math on that one!
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)I have like 2100 posts and I've been on here since 2009 I think. I read almost everyday stuff on the site. But when I see people with 100,000+ posts I wonder what life they live outside of DU. And is someone really that excited to post their every thought 24 hours per day? I'd lose interest in about 15 minutes.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)would be my guess.