Should DU have a GOSSIP and personal attack about public figures forum? [View all]

[yurbud]

Given the MANY personal attack posts about Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, and in the past other progressives that annoy Republicans and corporate Democrats' masters, as well as the largely irrelevant self-inflicted wounds of pols like Anthony "Look at My" Wiener, should DU have a gossip and personal attack forum?

That would mean locking or deleting such threads in other forums, and telling the poster to take it to its assigned dungeon.

I think there should still be room in General Discussion and the other big forums for issues of hypocrisy like which pols talk a good game while taking money from corporations, back the drug war after (or while) partaking themselves, or the gay-bashers who are closet gays.

And we could make the Gossip forum just for those to the left of Olympia Snowe (though that would not be my choice).

Locking this crap and redirecting it to a Gossip dungeon would clear out a lot of the trash talk and acrimony and recenter DU on actual issues instead making us sound only half an IQ point above the talking heads on TV.

And it would help our corporate friends here to sell their case based on the merits of their arguments on ISSUES rather than by defaming people they don't agree with.

What do you think?
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	YES! Lock and load (up the Gossip forum with personal attack threads)
	3 (100%)
	YES, but just for attacks on Democrats on progressives. Republicans would still be fair game everywhere
	0 (0%)
	NO! Let it flow throughout the body of DU and become our lifeblood
	0 (0%)
	NO! Gossip should be allowed everywhere and discussion of substantive issues should be relegated to a dungeon
	0 (0%)
	OTHER
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	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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