Question about the "newer" members against Kerry

[GingerSnaps]

It seems that they joined last year and haven't posted since they joined.

Now all of a sudden DU has a massive amount of "new" members that are against Kerry and trying to start arguments on here.

What gives with the people under 50 message points from last year that suddenly starting posting that Kerry is losing and garbage like that.

What gives :shrug:?

[Walt Starr]

1. It's some idiot's idea of a "Freep"

It too, shall pass. Give the mods time.

[GingerSnaps]

6. Is it me or are you seeing it as well?

I can spot one immediately and then I look at their profile and they joined last year. Why haven't they posted since last year? I guess I am getting old and suspicious or something.

:hug:

[Walt Starr]

11. Just hit alert and move on

Let the mods handle it.

[GingerSnaps]

15. Is it me or have you noticed it?

:shrug:

[sffreeways]

20. Because something

was probably going on last year that gave the freepers motivation to come here and start a flame war and insult. After they got their rocks off they never came back until now because they are newly motivated to disrupt.

They come in waves. The dates of registration are probably similar for a number of these cretins.

Example: 5 people joined last year in April and the same 5 people have made suspect posts recently attempting to undermine the confidence of the Kerry folks here.

Try and remember what was going on around that time and you'll have the reason they joined then and nobody has heard from them since.

On Edit: when in doubt hit the alert button, the mods have their ways of figuring out who's a stealthy freeper.

[GingerSnaps]

22. What happened back in July, August & December?

:shrug:

[ArkDem]

2. If you added all the message points together what would the

square root of that number be?

[Rowdyboy]

3. Their collective IQs

[GingerSnaps]

8. It's 7 right?

:shrug: or was it 3?

[Rambis]

9. I have to up my post total so....

Mostly it is just assholes being assholes- It is an election year so there is more traffic.:)

[GingerSnaps]

14. I don't have that many messages under my belt

But I am not promoting Bush and I have been posting on and off since I joined DU.

[liberalnurse]

4. We can smell them......so....

Report them to the Moderators and go on.....We've been down this road before.

[MoonRiver]

5. It's clear to me that this forum is under attack.

[oasis]

7. Pish posh. I love newbies.

:pals:

[GingerSnaps]

13. They are not newbies

That's why I am a bit suspicious about the attacks on Kerry.

[oasis]

16. I understand.

;-)

[Ruby Romaine]

10. thank you for bring this up!

[wicket]

12. Hit alert on them, it always works

:evilgrin:

[LowerManhattanite]

17. They've been lurking...

...and got the "call" today to uncloak. Little p*ssed that the mods are either being ultra-permissive or a tad inattentive in noticing and acting on this little sh*t shower we're experiencing.

Git on 'em mods!

[REVOLT823]

18. I am a fairly new member as well (but a good guy),

but I notice that all the guys that end up getting tombstoned on here have the same style of conveying their ideas, they kind of approach this in a naive "i can't figure it out" sense, it is easy to pick them out by their style of writing, they read as disingenuous.

[GingerSnaps]

21. The messages start out with "I have a question about my Republican Friend"

She or he says that Clinton did this or that.

Your like me I don't have allot of posts but I can spot someone a mile away.

[TheFarseer]

19. Maybe people are just getting excited

because Kerry lost his sizable margin in the polls. Hopefully the dabates and his new ads will help. People that are bush supporters on here are SUPER OBVIOUS to spot. They just can't control themselves and give themselves away imediately.

[LuminousX]

23. sizeable margin?

I think there is a lot of hoopla over one poll. Remember, Bush was once at 90% approval and he has dropped dramatically.

For a President who had such a ranking, to be struggling to get a lead with a Senator from Massachusetts, it is pathetic.

[TheFarseer]

24. I don't pay any attention to national polls

if that's what you're talking about. What's the difference if it's Kerry 46-bush 45 if bush has the 270 electoral votes. I go to electoral-vote.com(and other similar sites) cause that's all that counts and Kerry is down last time I checked after having a big lead for months.

[Moderator]

25. Locking.....

Judging members by the post totals is not
appropriate and is prejudicial. If you feel
that a member is a disruptor, please use the
alert button so that the moderators can
evaluate the situation.

We all had 50 posts at one time. Pointing
to someone's posts totals in an effort
to say that they are disruptors is a rule
violation.



Thank you.

DU Moderator