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In reply to the discussion: Why is DU's popularity waning? (Title edited, explanation within.) [View all]Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)241. You speak for me as well, deutsey
There is clearly a deep schism that wasn't here during the Bush years. Let's hope it means the end of the disastrous Third Way control of the party.
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Why is DU's popularity waning? (Title edited, explanation within.) [View all]
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
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It's not greater. You just can't see the decimal point. <--- I was wrong here. See post #22 nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#3
You're right. Something doesn't look right if you look at it as traffic volume. The graph is
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#22
Unless you are invited to salons with Hillary Clinton your opinion doesn't count
Fumesucker
Dec 2014
#473
"DU is a great place for the affluent" ...that would explain the lack of empathy,
L0oniX
Dec 2014
#534
You're absolutely correct. I'm doing better now than I ever have with a well paying union
neverforget
Dec 2014
#544
I think you hit the nail on the head. Those who are doing well, most, not all, are impatient
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#569
Hmmmm... Now you have me wondering about that. EDITED: I think you're right now that I look closer.
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#14
Figured out above, I think. This is why I put the question to the board, to figure out
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#40
I was driving everybody crazy on my non-political forums by posting anti-bush articles
librechik
Dec 2014
#536
That's exactly it - although I'm certain that is the goal of some members around here.
BlueCaliDem
Dec 2014
#408
GOP attacks are not sophisticated. Its easy to learn what they are. You are assuming
stevenleser
Dec 2014
#205
Hillary = Caligula. Hillary = Nixon. Straight from the vile fantasies of Newt Gingrich.
Hekate
Dec 2014
#293
Don't forget "But OBAMA hisself said he was a moderate RepublIcan!!one" and "Nixon was to the left
Number23
Dec 2014
#470
+1 for bashing "conservatives". Conservatives are republican. They should just own it.
RiverLover
Dec 2014
#411
Where people supported Democratic Values and not DLC/Third Way values. The demands on
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#83
You're not the only one. Many people have given up on partisan forums where all they hear from
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#435
The message of '14 was delivered from a million couches: "Yawn. I don't care. Pass the chips."
Hekate
Dec 2014
#303
Oh please, you are delivering the same old 'we must elect anyone who slaps a D after their name'
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#433
i am all for criticism but sometimes it gets too personal with thd 2016 primary fight.
hrmjustin
Dec 2014
#89
because too many see posting on DU as Activism and being some kind of revolutionary
JI7
Dec 2014
#199
Yup. Some of us want to move the country forward taking into account political realities.
stevenleser
Dec 2014
#207
Oh, I imagine the numbers will skyrocket once we have President Paul in 2017
Blue_Tires
Dec 2014
#13
Now you're just being funny. Formulating a coherent argument will get you where you want to go.
Hekate
Dec 2014
#306
Moderates? Don't you mean DINO, gun-humping, cop-loving, capitalist pig, racists?
branford
Dec 2014
#29
The general hostility displayed to all those who don't already know the doctrine
lumberjack_jeff
Dec 2014
#140
Endless obsessive never-ending dissection and rumination about a handful
TwilightGardener
Dec 2014
#31
I remember fondly the great essays/essayists and the wide variety of discussion topics. I remember
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#99
The infrastructure places too much risk and too little reward for creating those essays.
lumberjack_jeff
Dec 2014
#281
For me, I started posting a lot less when I started to become cynical about Obama
XemaSab
Dec 2014
#125
219,245 user registrations ... How could you possibly know that? Are you keeping records? nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#114
Yea, but the volume of activity and number of participants...a need to analyze every nuance of every
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#215
I don't think you have to be on MIRT to figure out who is a sock on many occasions.
MADem
Dec 2014
#409
you totally posted the wrong version of that song, here is the REAL Meghan Trainor
snooper2
Dec 2014
#116
No because if YOU are not pledging to vote for the winner of the primary...even if it is HRC
VanillaRhapsody
Dec 2014
#240
I might add that the teachers *I* can think of who were banned were banned...
Smarmie Doofus
Dec 2014
#414
Because it used to welcome liberal and progressive minded people and viewpoints.
raouldukelives
Dec 2014
#39
The Ferguson event is a critical part of fighting the right, the major purpose to me.
appalachiablue
Dec 2014
#343
If it were up to some here, the Democratic party would be a very small tent.
Metric System
Dec 2014
#47
Too much interest on maintaining the status quo centrist Democratic part of the Party?
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Dec 2014
#53
+1 If people felt the Democratic Party were actually functioning to defend them
woo me with science
Dec 2014
#93
^ This may also be a good indicator of why Democratic discussion is waning. nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#96
DU's corporate Third Way message brigade is already trying to swarm and spin responses to this OP,
woo me with science
Dec 2014
#57
I think it is also more than the primary fight though but the arguments between different 2016
hrmjustin
Dec 2014
#60
Perhaps. I don't frequent those other sites so have no idea of their popularity vs. DU. Some other
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#63
No data for sites ranked below 100,000. Discussionist.com is at 179,796 and delcining. Of course,
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#75
Oh WOW! I didn't think to compare it with those sites. Now I'm wondering if this is an
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#67
Jump in wherever you want to, savalez. Glad to see you! I've been participating less myself in
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#81
Perhaps. It is used, however, (or maybe used to be?) by a lot of webmasters to
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#92
"I'm not as brave as I used to be." <-- You may be onto something here, lol. Neither am I!
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#88
Wow, where did you see that? I was quite taken aback by the search keywords Alexa lists
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#109
The jury system and MIRT have turned this place into a purity contest/witch hunt...
LostInAnomie
Dec 2014
#115
There's no way I could link to examples of moderators "taking out" unpopular posters
MADem
Dec 2014
#506
I saw you said the break should happen with the old mod system, just thought you might be interested
uppityperson
Dec 2014
#527
I never said those that were reinstated were egregiously bad (or even mildly bad)
cyberswede
Dec 2014
#313
I disagree with those hides, and I disagree with a lot of your stated positions.
uppityperson
Dec 2014
#523
"fewer than a couple dozen reinstated" is now "dozens egregiously badly banned"?
uppityperson
Dec 2014
#522
Thanks Justin - I didn't want to underestimate, so that's why I thought maybe a couple dozen total
cyberswede
Dec 2014
#321
I banned one in error and had them reinstated when it became obvious. They came in on a death threa
uppityperson
Dec 2014
#524
Simple. Volunteer to be on MIRT a term and you can see what it is like, what happens.
uppityperson
Dec 2014
#519
Silly...if one serves on MIRT, one can no longer make unfounded implications about MIRT motives
cyberswede
Dec 2014
#229
Here is a link about it. The new sign up for volunteers will be Jan, in Announcements forum
uppityperson
Dec 2014
#526
There was one person who resigned from MIRT, but I don't have the details why
cyberswede
Dec 2014
#300
I don't think that's true. I support the Citizens United decision as well as the Keystone pipeline,
Nye Bevan
Dec 2014
#213
I only see 2 legit hides. The rest are juries policing a member for having the wrong opinion
LittleBlue
Dec 2014
#272
Overall Daily Kos is becoming much more liberal in nature than DU is lately.
madfloridian
Dec 2014
#252
It probably means that the "underground" part of it's name is no longer appropriate. nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#148
Sites always evolve but there is strong debate here on our 2016 candidates but it does get
hrmjustin
Dec 2014
#152
I don't know if you remember, but this site used to be scholastic. I mean to tell you there were
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#156
Yes, as has been mentioned above. HuffPost too. Why do you suppose the waning
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#151
"moderates get attacked here a lot and it gets pretty tiresome." "echo chamber for corporate shill
pampango
Dec 2014
#150
Because the site's demographics-and thus, perspectives-do not reflect the Democratic Party base
YoungDemCA
Dec 2014
#155
I'd like to know where those who are tired of misogyny, racism & sexism go-
appalachiablue
Dec 2014
#288
Because saying nothing more than Third Way, DLC, authoritarian tool of the MIC and/or the 1 puh-cent
BeyondGeography
Dec 2014
#168
Could not have nailed what passes for "discussion" in this place any harder. Good gracious
Number23
Dec 2014
#471
I remember there being less carping. I remember substantive responses that included as much
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#180
Maybe it was because the midterm elections did not produce candidates that many people
Baitball Blogger
Dec 2014
#181
Considering the similar waning of interest at Kos and Huff, it may really be this simple. Thanks for
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#183
alert on a personal attack, and multiple jurors personally attack you
carolinayellowdog
Dec 2014
#468
I don't come much now because of the infighting and lack of respect among members.
nolabear
Dec 2014
#220
Or, when a person has a legitimate grievance against a post that was actually offensive.....
AverageJoe90
Dec 2014
#399
Some people are saying it's liberals fault. Some are saying it's the moderates.
DemocraticWing
Dec 2014
#307
Well...an ex-Duer I know told me about this when it was happening and the reasons why.
Neoma
Dec 2014
#311
Alexa: Measuring which sites are popular with people dumb enough to install their toolbar since 1996
unrepentant progress
Dec 2014
#330
You do realize that outside of the circle jerk of misognynists on reddit "social justice"
LeftyMom
Dec 2014
#387
You actually don't get to decide that issues unimportant to you* are unimportant or distractions.
LeftyMom
Dec 2014
#401
Radical feminists & "fringe SJ warriors" aren't the only people concerned with
cyberswede
Dec 2014
#403
So, being so honest joe, what are the radfem, AAsaying on du that is so fuggin out there? I have not
seabeyond
Dec 2014
#410
You can't come up with any extreme just creating caricatures if women and blacks to vilify them and
seabeyond
Dec 2014
#423
And here you go again, making assumptions that have no shred of truth in them.....
AverageJoe90
Dec 2014
#442
You have not and can not come up with extremism cause it does not exist. You vilified women, blacks
seabeyond
Dec 2014
#446
Putin is a right wing neo-con? Do tell! So Bush & Putin have the same agenda?
grahamhgreen
Dec 2014
#487
Putin is a neocon in the Russia context--far right, throwback to previous regressive ways
uhnope
Dec 2014
#498
So, he's a Russian oligarch, as opposed to those here who would destabilize the Ukraine and then
grahamhgreen
Dec 2014
#511
Election night 2012 the site went to defcon 5 but on election night 2014 we went to defcon 1 only.
hrmjustin
Dec 2014
#391
Alexa used to mean something eons ago--it's just a datapoint now, that examines a minority of people
MADem
Dec 2014
#439
Cool. So everybody decided to uninstall their Alexa toolbars at the beginning of September...
ChisolmTrailDem
Dec 2014
#505
Alert crews. I can't say where they are coming from or I'll get a hide ...but everyone knows.
L0oniX
Dec 2014
#417
I keep hearing about coordinated alert "crews" but have yet to see any evidence
cyberswede
Dec 2014
#420
There are some DU groups that make an effort to alert on any one who criticizes them.
L0oniX
Dec 2014
#458
After some of the responses on the Santa tuns away an autistic girl with pit bull
liberal_at_heart
Dec 2014
#441
PRISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sibelian
Dec 2014
#572
as I recall a whole bunch of feminists left DU as a protest during the nerd wars
librechik
Dec 2014
#497