A BIG THANKS Thread For The Admins, Because...

[Hissyspit]

...have you noticed? There has not been one of those annoying significant downtimes or irritating interruptions for QUITE A WHILE (least not that I experienced and I'm here a lot)! No scrambling for the DU Panic Room lately!



Cheers For Uninterrupted Service and Those Who Deliver It!




The new Democratic Underground Server Complex
...located somewhere, um, underground in an undisclosed location near Reston, Virginia.




EarlG's Master Monitor Site
From here, he compiles the worst of the most idiotic of the stupidest, most hypocritical right-wingnuts.




The DU Moderator Area
They, too, deserve acclaim. They are at work around the clock!



Elad and Skinner and EarlG have been servicing us all well.

Hooray for no infoflow glitches! (Knock on wood...)

[terrya]

1. Hear Hear!

Kudos to all. Thanks.

[Hissyspit]

40. I forgot THIS!:

http://dura.cell.free.fr/home/swf/1000000.swf

[bdamomma]

2. thanks

[Forkboy]

3. They haven't serviced me yet, but I'm free next weekend.

:evilgrin:

:hide:

[progressoid]

14. .

Dang you beat me to it. :)

[Yael]

4. Oops! Just asking for Jinxy McNastys to show up.

:scared:

[Hissyspit]

9. For the superstitious amongst us:

1.) Find Wood

2.) Knock


Alternately:

1.) Find Salt

2.) Toss Over Shoulder

[Yael]

25. Wood has been knocked and salt tossed

I work in IT. Superstition and paranoia is all we have.

[rasputin1952]

33. Who threw salt in my eyes! It stings!

:D

[EFerrari]

5. Yahoo!

:woohoo:

[gateley]

6. K&R - this is TOO good! Thanks! nt

[SoCalDem]

7. NOW you've done it..

Never jinx good luck by talking about it .. We once had a van that "knew" when we had money.. Anytime we would talk about money in that beast, it would break down ..and of course the repairs usually met or exceeded our "extra" money :grr:

[rasputin1952]

8. I don't know what time of day you took the Mod Area pic....

but it must have been right after that industrial vacuum went through, cause all of the hair I pull out from cornflake chicken, Olive Garden and R/T readings is gone....usually it looks like a troop of baboons molted behind my chair....:D


PS...Thanks for the kudo's...:hug:

[Hissyspit]

10. Well, I know it wasn't 4 a.m.

that's for sure, because there is someone there!

[rasputin1952]

12. LOL...Coffee's just about to brew at 0400 Central....

:D

[mcscajun]

30. That *can't* be the Mod area...you can SEE the mouse pads!

[supernova]

11. Where's the hot tub?

:woohoo: for the admins and mods!


:bounce: :woohoo: :bounce:

[Hissyspit]

13. After buying it at a government auction of Duke Cunningham's belongings, Skinner installed it...

atop his condo complex:





P.S. Yes, it was sanitized.

[rasputin1952]

16. LOL...you beat me to it...

:rofl:

[rasputin1952]

15. Had to send it out for an industrial cleaning/sandblast...

Duke Cunningham showed up and left a slime ring...;)

That guy is hard to hold under water, even with a couple of his ladies helping me! (BTW, they paid me to hold him down!)

[Gold Metal Flake]

17. Here's the old one...

[TahitiNut]

27. Here's a photo from the DU archives when a captured FReeper was used for hottub fun.

[sellitman]

18. No wonder they are always bitching about their overhead.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[tigereye]

19. here's another alleged view of the mod forum...

my couch is littered with Steeler paraphernalia and wailing Steeler fans.... :(

[unhappycamper]

23. That's an upgrade from when I was there.

[Broken_Hero]

26. uh,

us GF mods still use that one.....


:D

:hide:

[tigereye]

29. ahaha

:rofl:

:hi:

I couldn't find a pic of a ratty sofa floating in water.... ;)

[proud patriot]

31. now that's a HOT tub

:hi:

[unhappycamper]

20. I stole a section out the book last year.

Tombstoning
Section 16.42.7(a)

The old-timers know the ins and outs of democraticunderground.com, so this is old news to most of them. Tombstoning a member is a big deal; as you’ve seen the last few days, we bend over backwards to avoid it. But there comes a point when the dirty deed must be done.

And you may be the one to apply that :nuke: loving :nuke: touch. :nuke:

You may ask yourself “I wonder what’s happening when I push that “Submit Form” button. Well, here’s a bit of mod lore for ya.


We have operators standing by 24x7 for that eventuality.





The operator takes your request and calls Mike in the basement. Mike takes the request and sets up the connection to the proper machine.




After Mike does his thing, our soon to be Tombstoned member is done in by one of these devices:

We use this one for the average disruptor.




This device is used for the partially brain dead.




This one is used for folks who are considered almost completely brain dead.




There are some folks that really piss you off. If you ask an operator nicely, she may ask Mike to give you the Big Kahuna.




What happens when ya gotta nuke someone & the electricity is off? The Big Guys thought of that one also. Gravity sucks. Mike drops this puppy on them.




With the failsafe, we're able to guarentee a slate stone tablet 99.999% of the time.


Questions?

[proud patriot]

32. LOL

[baldguy]

21. And they got that ex-NORAD computer at a discount.

[sellitman]

22. Just found...Skinners secret control room.

[Theres-a]

35. Heh.

Kicking.

[EVDebs]

24. LOL ! You've done wonders with Photoshop. The NSA's Big Blues don't compare to DU's !

[applegrove]

28. Ditto.

[Kurovski]

34. Hey! You're correct.

I just took it for granted. I'm Such an ingrate.

Thanks, Admins!

At least we know that not all our money is going to EarlG's tea-drinking habit. :Evilgrin:

[Patsy Stone]

36. Yes!

K&R!

[lovuian]

37. Thanks Guys & Gals

Your Awesome
:applause:

[Admiral Loinpresser]

38. K & R!

Tensions are high because this election is so critical. Yet all our arguing (and agreeing) DU grows in influence and effect, giving us all a chance to practice 21st century democracy.

A wonderful community. Many thx!

[bbgrunt]

39. it has been great! many thanks.

[mogster]

41. It's the first and foremost concern for any net community

Does it work properly technically? The second would be; is it possible to understand the info-structure, to find your way around all the info? Especially here, where the posting frequency is very high. No doubt both is very well taken care of by the DU leadership, and solved to the best for us all. It is also interesting to observe the info-structural developments inside the community over time, such as the Greatest page. That was a winner, and has improved this site greatly imho. All in all, top score for the DU admins and also the mods, who are doing the difficult job of maintaining DU peace in a very radicalized political landscape.

[Hissyspit]

42. .

[lildreamer316]

43. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

You guys are the BEST!!! Loves all around.
I would be insane if it were not for this place.