Hmm. Already 73 subscribers to our little quilting bee

[socialist_n_TN]

Must be more commies and socies than most thought on DU. Or at least curious about same.

[Starry Messenger]

1. It's cool!

I'm already hanging out in here more. It's total chaos upstairs at the moment. I keep peeking into the Meta forum and slowly backing away again.

[PETRUS]

2. 75 minutes later and we're up to 77 subscribers.

[Starry Messenger]

3. I know there were 80 votes for "socialist" over on a poll on DU2 last week.

We might be close to getting all those folks here. That would be cool. I'm thinking when things are a little more settled in the big forum, I might remind people who are interested to check us out. I like this subscribe feature.

[socialist_n_TN]

4. I too like this subscribe feature..........

As long as we venture out into the wider DU world every now and then , I think we can all be pretty happy here.

[socialist_n_TN]

8. And 80 is where we're at this morning........

I guess we got all of them.

[socialist_n_TN]

5. I've been peeking and posting a little in the new GD

but that's about all.

[white_wolf]

6. I think this might be my new GD.

I like the more focused discussion found here.

[socialist_n_TN]

7. Agreed. And almost ALL of my fav posters are here

Just need to pick up a couple more. The only problem is getting too insular. We're going to have to watch that.

[TBF]

9. I am hosting the travel group -

my favorite thing to do. I love visiting new places, meeting new people, and seeing how they live. So I will be between here & there. GD is always interesting (going for a neutral word there!) but I have a feeling it will be really nice to have these groups as respites over the next year.

[white_wolf]

10. With the election coming up-

I'm worried we will have to be careful about what we post in GD, I'm afraid the hosts will be very strict.

[TBF]

11. The forum hosts have more limited powers -

they can only lock "threads that violate that forum's statement of purpose". That's it. But since the goal of the website is electing democrats, my guess is that fierce criticism of POTUS will be frowned upon. And I guess we'll have to see how they interpret discussion about OWS and systemic change. My personal feeling is that it's just as well to post much of it in here. Folks who are questioning our country will likely look in here anyway to see what we're saying. Those who are hyper-partisan aren't going to be open to listening anywhere.

We've got 80 subscribers so I intend to try to find interesting stuff for them to look at.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

14. I think it's still a good idea to cross-post in more visible forums ...

The more information out there, the better.

[socialist_n_TN]

12. Now up to 84.........

I think we're becoming a DU movement!

[socialist_n_TN]

13. And now an even 100

and we haven't even posted a link on the main boards yet.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

15. DUers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose ...

... but your posting privileges!

[amyrose2712]

16. Sweet! I guess because we no longer need stars upon ours....

I didn't know that was going to occur.

[socialist_n_TN]

18. UPDATE! Up to 156 subscribers now........