Let me be the first to welcome members back from Purgatory!

[trumad]

[ezgoingrl]

1. Purgatory

nada

[In_The_Wind]

2. And remind 'em to take the high road.

[pnwmom]

13. Many alerters need to be reminded of that.

For example, my fifth hide was for a post in which I laughed about going to the Bernie site for information, and being met with request for a donation and the last four digits of my credit card number. Here some people are worried about Hillary having their email addresses -- and yet Bernie had my credit card numbers.

That was it. That's what got me suspended. And there are many other Hillary supporters who were repeatedly alerted and hidden for similarly innocuous posts.

[In_The_Wind]

15. Maybe the alerts will become less harassing since the purpose was to build enough hides to ...

silence voices.

[Duckhunter935]

27. Maybe the posts will just get more vile

There is no longer a punishment

[In_The_Wind]

29. I hope that won't be the way things go.

[HuckleB]

31. I suspect some will work to silence people.

It's amazing to see the vast difference between some hides and some truly vile posts that get a pass from a jury. I can only hope that part of the new system allows for reconsideration.

I don't like the poster above, and she doesn't like me, but I doubt she earned five hides. I don't see that happening, based on the rules.

[Sanity Claws]

3. As a recovering Catholic, let me help you with the spelling.

It's Purgatory. The word is based on purge, a place where you are purged of your sins.

There are lots of things I have blocked out from my Catholic upbringing but spelling is apparently not one of them.

[trumad]

5. This recovering Catholic should know better...

Thanks.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Some of those members were in Limbo because they were pure and innocent.

[Duckhunter935]

28. And most were not

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. ...and sometimes a joke is just a joke.

Growing up Catholic, we had to learn the difference. I thought it would be fun to comment on Limbo, but there is no fun on DU anymore.

[Hekate]

39. There are pockets of humor -- it may be under seige, but still it lives. Try this....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027683681

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. Yup!

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. The warden has decided that the inmates in gen pop have gotten too comfortable. n/t

[Scootaloo]

8. Like throwing open the doors of Arkham Asylum

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. I don't like purging, banning, or silencing.

Differences of opinion are what make horse races. Mark Twain

[pintobean]

10. Ah, the view from the tall grass!

[snooper2]

11. For the couple who go into rage mode, this may not be a good thing LOL

[joshcryer]

12. Some of DUs best were locked out.

Especially in the AA community here.

A good move by Skinner.

[pnwmom]

14. I think that forum was targeted.

In all my bazillion posts, I'd only had one hide until I started posting in AA. Then in a few months I got 5. It didn't feel like a coincidence.

[pintobean]

17. I think a lot of those problems arise in groups

when they allow meta, and block people from defending themselves in the group. Trash talking people who aren't allowed to defend themselves is a good way to make enemies. I think that's what poisoned GDP.

[pnwmom]

19. My hides were taking place outside of the forum and were not meta.

For example, my fifth hide was in GDP. I posted about going to the Bernie Sanders site and being met with a page asking me for a donation -- and listing the last four digits of my credit card number. I thought it was funny. And said:



The alerter said that it wasn't Bernie with the credit card info -- it was Act Blue, which was doing their fundraising. How would I know that? The Bernie site still pops up with my credit card when I go to it, and it still doesn't say anything about Act Blue.

And many other Hillary supporters got hidden for posts as innocuous as that.

[joshcryer]

18. There's no low hanging fruit in that group.

That's why.

I went without a year without getting a hide and almost got timed out once I started seeing what was going on.

[Coventina]

16. How was the skiing?

[Odin2005]

20. Thank you!

[floriduck]

21. Thank you.

It's great to be back.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

22. Yea!!!

many thanks

[William769]

23. Kick & recommended.

[madinmaryland]

24. Welcome back, trumad!!

I guess the alerter over in the sports group won't be able to get you banned anymore!!

[lamp_shade]

25. Missed you, Trumad.

[Duckhunter935]

26. For having a jury hide at least 5 posts

I foresee even more disgusting posts as there is now an incentive with no more vacationsvacations.

[HuckleB]

32. I doubt it.

I suspect that a study of the posts hidden versus posts not hidden might even find more vile ugliness in posts not hidden.

There is a big problem with the jury system. It's good that DU recognizes that.

[trumad]

34. Maybe some were vile....

But mine weren't. Mine were targeted.

[Duckhunter935]

35. And so were mine

I took my vacations because I did not have an administrator change the rules. Good for you. Just shows some groups are more equal than others once again.

[Codeine]

37. Skinner and Co. could see what was getting hidden

and they knew it was targeted bullshit, people taking advantage of the numbers to silence one side of the argument, with a distinct and obvious racial overtone.

Judging from the fact that the returning refugee population seems to be about 10-1 Clinton supporters and contains a SHAMEFUL number of our best and brightest AA posters I'd say Skinner was pretty well spot fucking on.

[Hekate]

40. Spot on, Codeine

[betsuni]

41. +1

[Duckhunter935]

42. Yep and some of those posters were great at calling us racists

Without any evidence, especially in protected groups that we are censored from responding. It is nice to have a protected group to launch your attacks and being able to do that with impunity.

[Codeine]

43. Given the obvious racial disparity evident in their hiding,

I'd say they might have been right about some of that, eh?

[Duckhunter935]

44. No, it shows that some

Are very rude and had posts hidden. I bet most hides were from a protected group they attacked others and then censored people from responding. Alerting is the only response in those cases. Limiting speech of others caused this.

[Codeine]

45. Please. The Sanders side stalked that group relentlessly,

alerting on anything and everything because they knew they could use the jury pool disparity to their advantage to silence pro-Clinton African-American voices. Skinner even took to occasionally overturning hides for some of those posters because the targeting and motivation were so nakedly partisan and racially-tinged.

[Duckhunter935]

46. Never seen Skinner overturn a hide

And some of the posts in protected groups are really disgusting. I never said all posts. But some use a protected group as a safe haven to post insults. Served some right to have some of those posts hidden. HellHe'll, I had an apology hidden and I did not whine about how unfair it was. Idid my vacation time after I was alert stalked.

[Initech]

30. This was just like that vacation I took to Purgatory last year!

[UTUSN]

36. "They also serve who only stand and wait."

********QUOTE*******

Wiki: Milton gave the sonnet the number 19, but in the published book it was numbered 16 (see Kelley, 1956;[1] Revard, 2009,[2] p. 569), so both numbers are in use for it. It is popularly given the title On His Blindness, but there is no evidence that Milton used this title; it was assigned a century later by Thomas Newton in his 1761 edition of Milton's poetry,[3] as was commonly done at the time by editors of posthumous collections (Ferry, 1996, p. 18[4]).

[font size=5]On His Blindness[/font]

When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide;
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience to prevent
That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts; who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed
And post o'er land and ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait."

********UNQUOTE********

[TSIAS]

38. Yeehaw

Now everybody can be completely honest about how much they hate one another with no fear of consequences. This should work out well.