This place is going insane: blocked from a group I have almost never posted in.

[Betty Karlson]

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For some reason, the Barack Obama group doesn't want me. Owe-Kay... I have almost never posted in it.

But then why the ban? (edit: apperently I had unwittingly posted there once, yesterday.)

DU is going insane with this rampant abuse of block and alert: this is the division the other side is eager to sow. We can only hope that Sanders will bring us back together when he has won the nomination. Because Clinton would have an irrevocably divided party (courtesy of David Brock's operations and Debbie's shenanigans) and she would drag the whole ticket down in her fall.

Thank goodness even Sanders "underestimated our ability to bring people together" - as he said during his interview with Chris Hayes.

[Lorien]

1. No kidding. I've seen posts hidden that were so mild

I'm surprised they got any attention at all. I guess some Hillary fans have nothing better to do than spend their days clicking that alert button. As if hiding posts on DU will help their uber conservative candidate win!

[Betty Karlson]

3. I doubt it will help her win the GE, that is for sure...

[JonathanRackham]

2. The moderators in those groups are scared and have thin skin.

[oldandhappy]

4. has been crazy.

Please stay where you can, smile.

[Betty Karlson]

9. Hugging you right back, you

[Faux pas]

5. Trying to silence

us isn't going to keep anybody from feeling the BERN!!!!!!!

[SoapBox]

10. Isn't that the Truth...

And can that get anymore un-Democratic?

It's a BIG, wide, huge web out there...trying to shut down a voice here, on one site...well, there are thousands of other ways to speak out.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. only group admins can block people...

So if we cross reference the admins of that group with the admins of the group-that-shall-not-be-named-but-has-blocked-nearly-750-people, i wonder if any are the same?... Hmmmm

[SoapBox]

7. Even though, I doubt they would care...

A "gentle" note to Skinner/Admin?

That it appears some are taking preemptive actions? Maybe find out if that is even possible by Forum hosts?

Maybe a house rule...a DUer can't be blocked if they have never even posted in a Group!

[Hiraeth]

8. You HAD to posted to it at some time unwittingly because that is the only way they can block you

Hosts click on the post you made in their group and there is an option pops up to block the poster.

[Betty Karlson]

11. Maybe some YEARS ago, but not recently to my knowledge.

My appreciation for Barack Obama (the core business of that group) is very very limited. I respect that makes the group pretty much off limits to a proud gay man like myself.

Just maybe I have posted something in there in 2015, when the Supreme Court struck down DOMA?

[Hiraeth]

14. evidently they searched your past posting history and found a post to the group.

ridiculous on the face of it. meh. don't sweat it. I just got blocked from HOF today and have been blocked from HRC for several months now.

silly stuff

[tammywammy]

12. You posted there yesterday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110233146

You cannot be blocked from a group that you've never posted in. Probably perceived your replies as snarky in a thread from a DUer that's announcing he's dying from cancer.

You should talk to the host of you didn't mean to come across that way.

[Betty Karlson]

13. Owww.... well well, that would be the one unwitting recent post.

Forgiveness is totally snarky. Best let someone die without forgiving him / her, right?

Again: this place is going insane.

EDIT: by the way, how did you find that so quickly?

[tammywammy]

15. At the top of each forum/group is a search this forum/group button

I put in your username and selected all replies and it popped up.

I can see how someone may have read your reply as snarky, but you clearly didn't intend it that way. You should appeal the ban with the hosts.

[Betty Karlson]

16. Thanks for the info.

Learned something new today.

[BeanMusical]

27. Ohh, I didn't know about that either. Thank you!

[agracie]

19. He apologized. You accepted. Works for me.

[PeoViejo]

17. I'm just back from a few Days in the Hole.

The old Rat Fucker Brigade. It was a good fight.

[DhhD]

20. Just got back from taking a little tour over to the group in question. Noticed that no one there is

remembering such things as bankers in the administration and chaining Social Security. No one seems to remember the entire, yesterday, true speech of a former president, even claiming that the media did not cut out parts of the speech about the present leader of our country. Wow, what on Earth is going on here?

This place has gone off its rocker, spinning while rewriting history, throwing away facts and history as it turns. So glad to have my foot here; however they are coming in here now. I deleted a thread here yesterday as no one could help me out. Our host said I used the wrong source and could correct the OP. I ended it any way because I am on the Bern List.

[VulgarPoet]

21. They want to sew division.

Let 'em. They sew the dragon's teeth of hate day by day-- I can barely wait to see the day that they shit a brick realizing they've grown themselves a dragon.

[Bjornsdotter]

22. I can't believe what I am seeing

....people who were given amnesty are just picking up where they left off. Yeah, I could be a jackass too, but I'm not. The fact that they have been given a free pass to asshattery is ridiculous.

[mike_c]

23. I think I was banned from the BOG after the one and only time I responded to a thread there....

I might have intimated that his toes get wet when he walks on water, or something. I didn't realize the thread was in the BOG, as it appeared on the latest page.

[Blue Owl]

24. Like an Arizona voter

n/t

[JDPriestly]

25. I'm trying not to vote to remove ANY POSTS.

Because I want to keep people on DU, and right now the number of alerts for minor things, really for the hurt feelings of the alerter is just too much for me.

[PonyUp]

32. So right. Way too many alerts.

I'm in the process of deleting all my posts and getting out of here. Short time on this site, but it's so obvious that the prisoners have been let out and are now running the asylum. I'll keep supporting Bernie somewhere else. Keep up the fight!

[desmiller]

26. it's ok Betty

When someone gets insecure, they get desperate. and when the desperate get hold some hold of power, abuse follows.

[Scootaloo]

28. Blocked from there in 2013

When Obama was sending Kerry around to drum up support for launching missiles at Damascus. i told a poster in the bog that missiles were not "humanitarian relief" and poof, blocked from the group.

The hosts of that one tend to be the sort who demand absolute, unwavering, total reverence of "Our leaders."

You're honestly not missing anything except a bunch of people slapping their own asses between posting pictures of the president and his family.

[Betty Karlson]

29. Sharing a distinction with you, Scootaloo, is almost a badge of honour.

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But I still feel that those who express true contrition should be forgiven, epecially when they have little time left. The ban was silly and vindictive.

[delrem]

30. Unfortunately, the Obama group began to be extremely exclusionary early on.

One can't talk pros and cons of policy, there, especially where Pres. Obama is on point.

I always considered it another bit of internet stupidity, another bit of the flotsam that's kinda inevitable.

[corbettkroehler]

31. Just Happened To Me

It was the Hillary group. I had the AUDACITY to point out, in response to a thread, a couple of inconvenient truths. My crime? The point of the thread was to dismiss Sanders' chances of winning because he would need to win by a landslide. I replied that he just did that in Idaho and Utah.

Did I lie? Did I dissemble? Did I abuse? Here's the highly offensive exchange. This HRC supporter can't handle a little truth.

[Betty Karlson]

33. I'm surprised that you weren't hit with a hide as well.