Are we not supposed to post articles with criticism or warning about the

[applegrove]

press coverage of the Democratic primaries or the candidates themselves in this forum? How can we get better or demand better coverage if we can't?

[LAS14]

1. What, specifically, makes you think we can't? Every time...

... someone is alerted for something like this and I'm on a jury I deny the alert and it looks like the majority of the jury does too.

[applegrove]

3. Someone said it in this thread.I agree not picking is wrong. But we need to talk.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/128774300

[WeekiWater]

12. That post has been up for some time.

That seems to answer your question.

[KT2000]

6. Me too

I reread the rule because I was puzzled by alerts that involved criticism, not trashing. As I understand it, criticism is OK but not from RW sites as that involves another rule.

[applegrove]

8. Right. Thanks.

[louis c]

15. no they don't

[elleng]

2. Good questions.

[Cattledog]

4. As long as it's not from some crazy RW site why not?

[Indygram]

5. I don't know about that but there is an annoying spam problem

with people posting many threads of the exact same article or just random comments that should not even be a new thread. This buries any effort of discussing any but two specific candidates. I used settings to trash the first and last name of one candidate in order to be able to read things about other candidates due to it being excessive. I have spent the last few days clicking on the trash this thread option for repetitive threads but after refreshing the page there are 5 more similar threads to replace them. Now I'm at the point where I'm going to have to add a second candidate to the trash settings just to be able to read about other primary candidates. Come on people...there are individual candidate forums too. It's great to love your candidate but it's getting to be a bit much.

[DesertRat]

9. "Come on people...there are individual candidate forums too"

I agree! Have you checked out the O'Rourke2020 forum? https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1298

[Indygram]

11. I have, and I joined it. And if Beto spam ever becomes an issue

I will be sure to make sure to use it more.

[DesertRat]

14. What is Beto spam?

And if Beto spam ever becomes an issue

[Indygram]

18. I'm sure you can figure it out

Have a nice day. (I don't want to get reported for being honest)

[rpannier]

10. That I do agree with

And it's fine to post 100 of the same thing in that candidate's forum.
Because that's where you get to cheer your candidate on and no one can come in and snivel and undermine
BUt, you are correct (IMO) that there are too many of the same story being posted

[Indygram]

16. I do post a lot of live streams, but they are of different events and no one else is sharing them

It's great to be excited but I want to read about a variety of things and it's hard to do that sometimes.

[rpannier]

17. Live streams are different

It's the recap stories over-and-over-and-over-and-over...

[TwilightZone]

20. Agreed.

I posted a similar sentiment in another thread and got chastised for it, but I agree with your assessment. We don't need a dozen copies of every story posted by the same handful of posters every time a candidate does something - or anything. It just clutters up the board.

[jaceaf]

22. agree

There's a couple of candidates whose fans post every time they hiccup.

[Cha]

26. Trash can

is invaluable.

[rpannier]

7. I think critiquing their career is more than warranted, as long as its legit

I don't buy into this, saying anything "negative" about a candidate is harmful and plays into the hands of the republikkans.
Let's face it, if we know, they know too.
It's not like they peruse DU looking for super secret unknowns about our potential nominees

[louis c]

13. This Forum is a Gift for Trump

I am so pissed at the way this has unfolded that I may not post again anywhere on DU until a nominee is chosen. I have been here since 2004 and have donated every year.

I am re-thinking everything. I feel this whole process, as well intended as it may have been, hurts the Democrats chances of winning in 2020.

[cwydro]

19. Don't you remember 2016 ?

This place has been tame so far compared to that.

[louis c]

24. So far...

...but it sucks.

Having this forum does the Democrats no good

[cwydro]

29. There are definitely some agendas being carried out.

Some more obvious than others.

[TwilightZone]

21. It's like this every cycle.

I've been here since nearly the beginning and it's like this every time. It's actually an improvement over the early days because the Primary stuff has its own forum and doesn't infect the rest of the site, but the tone is pretty much the same. As the other respondent noted, it's actually pretty tame thus far compared to 2016, but it's also quite early in the process.

[leftofcool]

23. As long as you don't critisize Bernie

Everybody else is fair game.

[louis c]

25. I noticed that

[Cha]

27. Sorry, didn't get

the memo. lol.

[Tipperary]

28. Good question.

I just saw such an article get disappeared. It was so fast, I thought I had just lost track of it, but it is gone.