From here on out, I am only citing urban dictionary as a source.

[AtheistCrusader]

Seems credible.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Immaculate%20Defecation&defid=3693760

[trotsky]

1. I am going to start a thread specifically to stir up shit...

and then play the innocent "I have no idea why people argue over this" card.

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Hahah I just got my first hide in like.. 2 years.

Apparently pointing out UrbanDictionary isn't a credible source needs to be done in a more specific manner.

[deucemagnet]

5. OED doesn't even have definitions for "Cleveland Steamer" or "Rusty Trombone".

Clearly this makes Urban Dictionary the superior reference.

[AtheistCrusader]

27. It is, but it lacks 'eat a bag of hell', so it's not completely comprehensive.

Still, I'll take what I can get.

[theHandpuppet]

3. Oh damn...

I needed a warning for that one.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. I probably could have forestalled this with a one line 'Here's how credible UD is'

On Fri Jul 11, 2014, 12:17 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bowl+of+dicks
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1218&pid=139458

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

DU should hold its users to some standard of maturity.

JURY RESULTS

A randomly-selected Jury of DU members completed their review of this alert at Fri Jul 11, 2014, 12:26 PM, and voted 5-2 to HIDE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: idiotic
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: meh
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: atheistcrusader needs a chill pill. or at least a time out. this is not his only post in this thread that should be hidden.
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: While I agree that dueling dictionary definitions is ignorant and a sad excuse for actual discussion, this post is over the top.
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Why?
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: This is inappropriate.

CONSEQUENCES OF THIS DECISION

You will no longer be able to participate in this discussion thread, and you will not be able to start a new discussion thread in this forum until 1:26 PM. This hidden post has been added to your <a href="/?com=profile&uid=220885&sub=trans">Transparency page</a>.

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[Iggo]

10. LOL.

Totally worth it.

[AtheistCrusader]

12. I'm a little bummed though.

A couple of them are ripping into Goblin personally, and I'd like to go have a little something to say about that.

Ah well, you pays the price and you takes your turn or something. Probably got that wrong.

[Goblinmonger]

20. I'm so used to that

It just doesn't bother me. The hypocrisy of the tone police is stunning though.

[skepticscott]

22. One of which has now been scrubbed

Though probably not out of contrition, if their past behavior is any indication.

My philosophy now is, I've got five lives, and I intend to make the most of them.

[enki23]

36. How, in fucking hell, was that considered worthy of hiding?

Jesus, I get away with more than that even on a bad day. Maybe it's just low post volume these days.

[AtheistCrusader]

37. I suppose it was interpreted as me telling that user TO eat... yanno.

That wasn't how it was meant, but that's what it looked like from the jury comments.

[Ron Obvious]

6. What a bizarre debate.

I just read through the discussion. How revealing, though, that an appeal to authority (Sagan) still seems so convincing to religious believers.

Of course, we all respect Sagan (who was, of course, an atheist), but if he had come out with a statement that e.g. he believed in Bigfoot, the religious believers apparently would think we'd say "Hmm, maybe there is something to this Bigfoot thing", because Sagan said it, whereas in reality we'd wonder if Sagan had gone soft in the head instead.

It's so revealing of how they think.

[trotsky]

9. And it was all started by someone who thinks the debate is "silly."

Go figure.

[AtheistCrusader]

26. Yup. Gee, I wonder why that is.

I wonder what motive one could have to post something like that... Hmm. Motives..

[Soylent Brice]

7. LMFAO

[Warpy]

8. Urban dictionary always makes me laugh

I think DU must have had a large infusion of humorless recovering Republicans lately.

[Iggo]

11. Recovering?

Hmmm...

[Curmudgeoness]

13. Why do believers always try to define "atheism"?

I would bet that many of us here have our own internal definition and different degrees of non-belief. And yet, the religious people think that they can tell us what we are and how we think...or maybe try to tell us that we really aren't atheists. Makes my head spin.

I know that I am not stepping into that cesspool.

[Warpy]

14. I tend to avoid it as much as possible

The usual suspects will have to come here to troll for stuff I've said.

[Curmudgeoness]

16. For the most part, same with me.

Except for the occasional time when someone here sends me to a thread that I just cannot ignore. But that is rare...I can ignore a lot. Especially when it is more productive to beat my head against a wall. I give credit to the people here who are willing and able to hold up over there.

[onager]

19. Flamebait

As several others have noted. Just pure flamebait. And IMO, egotism.

Here's a fun exercise: in The Other Group, scroll down to the bottom of the page and see how many threads have been started that got 0 or very few responses.

Some posters - cough - really hate that. So they've learned that a few subjects are just about guaranteed to make a thread go ballistic:

--Richard Dawkins is a poopy-head
--Carl Sagan was almost a poopy-head but publicly said a few things we can distort into non-poopyheadedness.
--misogyny/racism/poor personal hygiene in the Atheist Movement...whatever THAT is.
--isn't the Pope neat?

Etc. etc.

[Curmudgeoness]

21. Poor personal hygiene in the atheist movement!

Well, I will admit to being seen doing yardwork before I took a bath in the morning. But I always brush my teeth!

[AtheistCrusader]

24. I was dissapointed none of them responded to a post I made from a comment by a feminist in the 1800'

s.

Sank like a stone, actually.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218137880

Honestly, it wasn't a constructive post, so much as it was a 'look how much shit hasn't changed in 124 years'.

[AtheistCrusader]

25. The magical mammal threads do get my goat. The pope is the only misogynist freak bag that gets a

total pass around here, and can be fawned over, and get no MIRT or hide activity.

Super frustrating. I know they post it as bait, but I can't help myself. Old, stinky, hooks hanging out of it... I can't help it. I gotta bite.

[theHandpuppet]

29. Well, you can get alerted on and your thread locked...

... if you don't play along. And watch using that word "fawning" -- it can get you into real trouble.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024009872

My only lock in some 12 years at DU.

[AtheistCrusader]

23. They want to shift that to a positive claim, because then the burden is on us to prove

their imaginary friend isn't real.

I don't believe your god exists.
I believe your god doesn't exist.

Subtle wording difference but the first leaves the burden with the believer, the latter puts the burden on me.


It's up to them to prove their invisible pink unicorn fairy leprechaun thunderbird dragon magical dude man bro guy in the sky is real. It's not up to me to prove it doesn't exist. THAT is why they want to shift the burden and pretend we are all making a positive claim that we KNOW no gods exist.

They're tired of playing defense of the indefensible, no doubt. I would be too if I believed in any of that horseshit.

[cleanhippie]

15. I cannot BELIEVE that some of you have allowed yourselves to be trolled like that.

Wtf is wrong with you guys? Seriously? Letting yourselves get sucked into yet ANOTHER debate on the meaning of words with well established definitions and usages?


That douchebag is a Poe-troll.
You. Know. That.


Ignore is your friend. Use it liberally.



(Note to the jury that will see this because someone not allowed to post here will alert and claim this is "disruptive, over the top, and a personal attack": this is sarcasm. Directed at people here I consider friends.)

[Curmudgeoness]

17. And I will second the note.

Just in case there is an alert and a juror reads further.

[cleanhippie]

18. Muchas Gracias, mi amigo.

[LostOne4Ever]

28. Sorry

I am like a moth to a troll flame on some issues.

But that particular OP will NEVER get another reply from me again.

[onager]

30. Oh, don't be that way...

Just post this with every response:



Unless the subject is the Pope, then post this:

[LostOne4Ever]

33. Ill definitely do that with pope threads

Might make the troll face one a signature

[Warren Stupidity]

31. Somebody owes me a keyboard from that bullshit.

I've never, ever, seen anyone claim UD as an authoritative source for anything other than bro-slang. What the fuck ever is wrong with those people that compels them to such intellectual dishonesty? Oh wait, they are doing the lord's work, it is all good.

[skepticscott]

32. Intellectual dishonesty and hypocrisy is all they have

They can't provide a shred of evidence that any of their gods or Great Spirits or whenever the fuck even exist, except in their overactive imaginations, and when they try to argue for the legitimacy of religion in spite of that, all they do is twist themselves into knots. Even the most intellectually presumptuous of that lot in Religion can't engage in their apologetics for long without hitting a wall, and being forced to stick their fingers in their ears to block out the truth.

And those are the most intelligent and erudite defenders of religion to be found on all of DU. Which is a happy thought.

[TxDemChem]

34. Lol I used to call it the vanishing poopie

I like this term so much better

[EvolveOrConvolve]

35. I'm floating on a sweet cloud of ignorance

With several strategic Ignores, I've cleaned up 95% of the horseshit in TOG. YMMV, but it's been highly successful from my point of view. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants these types to go away. I suspect if the only answer these people get is from others in the cheerleader circle-jerk squad, they'll be less strident in their hatred.