A lot of us are proud of who we are

[Why Syzygy]

and what we stand for. But one major thing that makes this place safe is that the traffic to the group is controlled by the mission statement, and a lot of DUer's don't know we exist.

Since there has been some rough and tumble on the big boards in the past, this issue was raised to Skinner in his recent OP on rule enforcement. (emphasis added)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

Skinner ADMIN (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-25-09 05:51 AM
Response to Reply #658
708. I think it is one of the major contributors to making people feel victimized on DU.

For both the people who are doing the linking, and for the people who are being linked to. It's against the rules, but we don't usually step in unless it starts causing an obvious problem.

To be honest, recently I've been thinking we should go back to the zero-tolerance approach. This behavior is toxic. Of course, if we did, I suspect the most determined offenders would either move the behavior to private messages, or off-board.
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I'm all in favor of this marking the end of people who link to us in order to create disturbance from outside the borders. Let me know if you agree? Some of you won't feel as vulnerable as others of us do, and that's worthy of respect. But as for for me, I plan to alert posts which link to this group in the future. At the same time, I vow not to use links to private groups in my postings in the major forums. Like this one:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...