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In reply to the discussion: Are some of my friends in this forum being targeted by the jury system for what they post here ? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Every campaign has jerks. Every single one--left, right, and center. Good candidates have jerks, bad candidates have jerks, and middling candidates have them, too.
It's unfortunate that some of them come out to play here. It's also unfortunate that trolls and assholes use election season as an opportunity to get their sad little jollies--I've no doubt we're seeing some of that, too.
I would hope that "higher ups" in the Sanders campaign ignore this website entirely. I'd advise it, certainly. Why? Plausible deniability. This place is an EMBARRASSMENT in many regards. I wouldn't send a soul here in an official capacity, because the site is overrun with toxic individuals -- and it's not at all hard to spot them -- who clearly don't have the Senator's best interests at heart. It's like they hear him say he wants to talk about issues and not attack people, and they deliberately, with knowledge, with intent, and with glee, do the exact opposite. No one in Sanders' campaign is going to "fix" that here--why? Because the people doing all the ugly shit aren't supporting the candidate they're pretending to support. All the exhortation in the world won't do any good. No one on the BS team can make this right--the best bet is to ignore this tiny corner of the world and keep working the issues.
The job of the people who are clearly disrupting this website with nasty, ugly, emotion-laden comments is to spread FUD, and anyone who takes their rancid bait is being gamed. I think the best bet is to deny them the oxygen that they so desperately seek.
I wonder how they'd handle it if, instead of arguing with them, that people who disagreed with them simply responded with an indulgent smilie.
, say, and nothing more.
It would probably irritate the hell out of them!
Arguing with a troll is like wrestling with a pig. You're only going to get filthy, and the pig likes it.
Every Sanders supporter I've met IRL is a good person. Can't say the same for DU, so what does that tell us? I'm guessing the enthused supporters are out there in the real world doing some actual supporting...but some of the people here (not all, certainly--but some) have a different agenda in mind.
A shame you got banned from the group, there--but just as well. Gives you more time to be productive, with people who matter.