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In reply to the discussion: To the Fuckety Fuck Squad -- Congratulations on your success! [View all]planetc
(7,811 posts)"I'm not talking about you. You've written a well-composed and thought-out OP and now response...I'm talking about the people that come here, are here for less than 100 posts, post 500-word polemics about our obscenity and depravity, then never come back. (My favorite was a "This place is child-unfriendly!" rant...if I had kids, I'd no sooner allow them to read DU than I'd allow them to wander naked in the flesh market slums of Bangkok.) The ones that really are the Mrs. Grundys and the Junior Anti-Sex League. Perhaps our language is an aegis for driving back the hordes of prudes, ninnies, nannies, and people who would be better off if they were wankers. This isn't a place for children, the easily-offended or the weak-willed...politics isn't a game for children, the easily-offended or the weak-willed--though too many here wish to act like it's a sporting contest. (Not accusing you of that either.)
Also, I've always assumed I constitute the real DU insofar as it's a largely-unregulated community-standards-based collective entity."
From the above, you do seem to have little respect for those who "come here, are here for less than 100 posts, post 500-word polemics about our obscenity and depravity, then never come back. (My favorite was a 'This place is child-unfriendly!' rant..." It's not clear whether you disapprove of their lack of commitment to DU for posting fewer than 100 times and departing again, or the substance of what they say.
I do think the FFS should consider the possibility that these people are being driven away from DU, and might conceivably have contributed more than 100 posts if they had not been treated as this OP has been treated by rather a lot of responders. Some people are rather sensitive to vulgarity. My field is modern literature (I am forever an English major), so I am anesthetized to fucking around, but much of the populace doesn't see the need for it, and is suspicious of a high fuck-per-sentence count. I don't think these are necessarily bad people. Or bad Democrats.