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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat happened to Skittles and Fizzgig while I was off DU?
Any updates on them?
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Kaleva
(36,636 posts)Fizzgig I don't know about.
question everything
(47,884 posts)but now there is no sign of her when searching for DU members..
Kaleva
(36,636 posts)A person who gets gets a post hidden will have that dropped off after 90 days but if you get 5 hidden posts within a 90 day period, you are essentially a goner.
question everything
(47,884 posts)I think that the most I've had were 3, or 4. Most from the same thread when I was engaged in a debate while each reply, apparently, was alerted and hidden.
The Ask the Administrators is now only limited to four topics and we no longer have moderators who may have a "pull" with them.
Or do we have others who can intervene?
Kaleva
(36,636 posts)To get 5 in 90 days, I think one has to work at it.
TexasTowelie
(113,624 posts)Skittles got five hides in a 90 day period so she is FFR.
Grasswire2
(13,594 posts)Thanks for the news.
orleans
(34,222 posts)never mind--i see it down thread
i have never been able to wrap my head around the newfangled du
elleng
(132,441 posts)fairly active on FB.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,012 posts)tomb stoning. We can only hope that they've returned under other names that they understandably won't tell us about.
hlthe2b
(103,092 posts)anyone know where they went?
Kaleva
(36,636 posts)He used to be a regular here in the Lounge and the "taterguy exception to the rule" is named after him but his posting became less and less frequent.
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/1018637952
hlthe2b
(103,092 posts)I keep seeing alerts on posts that are clearly tongue-in-cheek, but that might not be apparent to everyone..
Kaleva
(36,636 posts)A person like Skittles might not be on "flagged for review" status if members of the jury saw that it was her that made the alerted on post.
hlthe2b
(103,092 posts)Grasswire2
(13,594 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,539 posts)Kali
(55,103 posts)She is around. Skittles got FFRd and I am pissed about that. Admins should reconsider some of their decisions and not just let automatic software ban people who have been here from the beginning.
Grasswire2
(13,594 posts)Octafish is gone, too. I know why, but I wish he had left a forwarding. He left JPR I have heard.
Kaleva
(36,636 posts)Submariner
(12,537 posts)and DU should not be frivolously tomb stoning veterans.
We have no place to go to vent our frustrations. Democratic veterans are not welcome at any VFWs or American Legions or the message boards run by veterans organizations. So DU is it.
Skittles should be cut some slack. If FFRd is some automatic software ban, then that just sounds plain silly in todays political environment. Skittles has been here from the beginning and exceptions need to be made during this sick Trump era.
Gawd knows I need some slack when I get lit up about the Trump birther family....and stuff.
Kali
(55,103 posts)I had an ask the admin question up before they changed that format and have mentioned it elsewhere too, but nobody has ever responded. It seems like skinner doesn't have much to do publicly with DU anymore. EarlG is still active - doing the pic of the moment and taking care of MIRT, but not much else from admins out in the forums.
JI7
(89,424 posts)Kali
(55,103 posts)when I do click on long threads or get called to jury it is all the same people having the same stupid arguments alert stalking each other.
JI7
(89,424 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)You sentence seems ambiguous to me. Seriously, I rarely venture far from the Lounge so I don't know about these things.