A question for Obama supporters: what is your goal when posting in GDP?

[Evergreen Emerald]

What are you attempting or what do you think you achieve when you post threads?

Honest answers please and no flames.

[Tatiana]

1. Educate and inform. Sometimes vent. n/t

[saltpoint]

2. My hope is to persuade the admins to send naked dancers over to my

house.

[Butch350]

8. 2. My hope is to persuade the admins to send naked dancers over to my

House.

Male or female. If female.

"I'd buy that for a dollar"!

[newmajority]

Hey, I didn't know they did that!

Yo Skinner! Send over a "baker's dozen" of naked babes :evilgrin:

[MercutioATC]

21. If it works for you, send me your secret.

Almost 19,000 posts so far...no nude dancers.

[onenote]

3. when I post theads, its often to tell someone to chill out or to call into question an assumption

and I do it with respect to posts by Obama supporters as well as HRC supporters.

My goal -- to try to bring some semblance of rational thought to GDP, although its generally a wasted effort. I've gotten slammed by Obama supporters when I was trying to be balanced and I've gotten slammed by HRC supporters for doing the same thing.

[Cameron27]

6. Yes you do,

and thank-you, I appreciate it. :thumbsup:

[Sparkly]

9. Hey! I wondered whether you were still around, sb!

:hi:

[Cameron27]

25. Hey, how are you Sparkly!

As you can see, I don't post much anymore, and then I don't stick around when I do :+

(too much incoming lately)

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[John Q. Citizen]

22. Welcome, Obama supporter!

[berni_mccoy]

5. To try and help heal the sick minds of the Hillary Supporters.

If only they'd realize what they are doing by supporting Clinton's attempts to divide the people of the country and the party, they would realize what wrong they do. But they can not see it for they have become a cult of personality in following so blindly.

[Sparkly]

7. I'm interested to know, too!

I posted a few polls recently, and a wide majority said their opinions of candidates are NOT changed one way or another by posts from supporters here. And persuasion sure doesn't seem to be the goal, anyway.

[shadowknows69]

10. It pleases me

To stomp sycophantic idiots bent on the destruction of our party into mush.

[John Q. Citizen]

23. It's the little pleasures in life that really count.

[QC]

11. Alienate as many people as possible whose support their candidate will soon need.

This would seem to be a counterproductive strategy, but that's just old politics, you know.

[lumberjack_jeff]

13. Only an idiot will take anything I say seriously.

... unless you agree with it, of course.

In other words, I'm trying to berate, degrade and humiliate you into supporting my candidate. We're dispensing with the old ways of doing things, you see.

[QC]

15. This is the new politics we've been hearing about, I guess.

"Vote for me, assholes!"

[Umbram]

14. If you let anonymous people online alienate you - you need to get away from the keyboard.

I hope this didn't alienate you.

[PBS Poll-435]

12. To catapult the propaganda ...

[nichomachus]

16. From where I sit

I'm not an "Obama supporter," although after a few weeks following DU closely, I'm leaning that way.

I see some intemperate and rude remarks from Obama supporters -- probably about par for online discussion boards, which I've been involved in since before there was such a thing as Windows or the WWW as we know it. These boards tend to be pretty rough.

However, I see a lot of positive posts from Obama supporters and I've been impressed in general. The signal-to-noise ratio is pretty high.

What I see from the Hillary supporters -- and this is what has pushed me toward Obama -- is a meanness and rudeness that's uncalled for. I've seen very little positive -- mostly slams against Obama. And even in the positive posts, of which there have been very few, the writers can't seem to resist the temptation to get in one little dig against Obama and his supporters.

The pro-Hillary posts seem to consist mostly in posting ephemeral and meaningless poll results, gloating over imagined "victories," name-calling, repeating Rove-style gossip. I've really seen few posts telling us why we should support Hillary in a way that goes beyond her campaign rhetoric, which I already know. The signal-to-noise ratio is very low.

[JimGinPA]

17. During The PA Primary I Was Trying To Give A Sense Of The Ground Game Here...

Earlier in the primary season I appreciated those reports from DUers in other states. I try now to just to comment in the more newsworthy or positive threads regarding Obama and the more outrageous or dishonest posts from you Hillary supporters.

[MercutioATC]

18. To keep the discussion fair and honest.

Granted, I have a bias as an Obama supporter, but I try to discuss (and sometimes argue) from a position of equality.

I'll call Clinton supporters on their garbage posts, but I'll also take outrageous pro-Obama posts to task.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

19. To win a pony and a trip to Disneyland.

[Umbram]

20. Every time I post, an angel gets its wings. (nt)

[tekisui]

24. I like to post good news, to keep us working hard for

the presumptive Nominee. And to counter the Clinton Campaigns spins.