I have just joined an ever expanding group here on DU,

[pennylane100]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by tammywammy (a host of the 2016 Postmortem forum).

yes, I have been banned from the Hillary group. I knew my post was very closed to being unacceptable but the hostility shown in the post I responded to apparently clouded my judgement. I did not realize I was replying to a Hillary forum post but I did not often post there anyway.

The one thing that bothered me was that while my post was in poor taste, the OP that started the thread was, again in my opinion, just as nasty. It seems there are two very different standards in who and how we discuss our candidates. FYI the original post was

"Bernie Sanders is currently the beneficiary of an anti-Hillary Clinton ratfucking assault that would make Donald Segretti
cringe. How can you possibly say he has clean hands in this matter?"

[uppityperson]

1. I was banned from the Bernie group for pointing out that using nasty insults to complain about nasty

insults was hypocritical.

It seems they all are touchy and reactive.

[Andy823]

6. I was banned from the Bernie group

Because when Manny was trying to encourage his followers to "protest" at a Hillary event in Boston, I asked him if he would be joining them to lead them. I did add this smiley but I never once said a bad thing about Bernie.

[roguevalley]

2. sit by me :D

[Matariki]

3. "I did not realize I was replying to a Hillary forum"

Yeah, that's how it usually happens. Those forums shouldn't show up in Latest Threads by default.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. I avoid all the candidate forums./nt

[GoneOffShore]

5. Hasn't happened to me - yet.

Consider it a badge of honor.

It was in 2008.

[treestar]

7. It is easy - stay out of the forums

unless you are a supporter. There are so many of these posts complaining about this. If you know you support Bernie, stay out of the Hillary Group and post in the Bernie group and here.

[uppityperson]

8. That didn't work for me. Calling for civility in the forum of whom I support got need banned

[jeff47]

11. Unfortunately, those forums still show up in many places on DU, even if

you have trashed the forum.

As a result, the only way to be sure you are not posting in one of the groups is to carefully check the path at the top of the reply screen.

[TheProgressive]

9. I asked to be banned from the Clinton group!

They had some magical picture of Clinton and I just had to comment...

And asked to be banned!

[NurseJackie]

10. Oh, my... what a dreadful thing! Poor baby! C'mere and lemme give you a hug!

Keep in mind, however, that based on the 6:1 (Bernie to Hillary) supporters ratio that Skinner himself tells us about, the Bernie group bans a bigger percentage than the Hillary group does. So, it looks like you're in a pretty exclusive group if you ask me.




Note to Jury: Nobody was attacked or smeared in this post. I'm just stating mathematical facts. I did not make up the 6:1 ratio, that's something that Skinner has pointed out.

[elias49]

19. Love your hearts. So tender you are!

[JeffHead]

12. I shit canned the whole Hillary group. Problem solved. nt

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

15. Ditto. nt

[demmiblue]

13. Meta. n/t

[MrMickeysMom]

14. It only took me one post to be banned... If the alert trolling doesn't get ya...

... the group certainly will, and sometimes at the same time.

Remember, we have to assume they are part of the herd of Democrats. I believe about half of them may be.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. I think Skinner will be starting a new forum for banned from Group X posts

Of course, that leads to the conundrum: what if somebody gets banned from the banned from group group.

[NurseJackie]

22. They can join the Rodney Dangerfield group?

"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."



(Quote above also attributed to Groucho Marx and others.)

[jehop61]

25. Wonderful idea

We'd probably have more members that the "others"

[HassleCat]

17. Oh, that one

Yeah. I don't like the way they hide in their room and throw things out into the general DU population, and we cannot respond because they have blocked us from their room. So I reprinted the text of the post and responded to it on GD-P. The thread was locked for being "off topic." So a post about the Democratic primary candidates has nothing to do with the Democratic primaries. That's interesting. I had this happen once before, as one of the hosts followed me from one place to another, locking threads. Don't be surprised if they lock this thread, too.

[MerryBlooms]

18. Folks need to stop dropping turds in safe haven groups

and then whining about it in GD: P.

Your post is disruptive Meta and should have been locked at 3:57.

[demmiblue]

20. Yep... unless no one alerted on the original post.

I haven't yet, have you?

Edit: just alerted.

[MerryBlooms]

21. I alerted right after I posted. It's possible no one alerted, but

as alert-happy this place has been lately... who knows.

[jehop61]

23. Banned from Bernie Group

for a comment that I didn't even know just might offend a Berniebot. Time to rethink this whole banning thing. We Democrats should be better than that.

[Vinca]

24. Is this alleged "assault" the telling of truth about her Wall Street speaking engagements??

[tammywammy]

26. Locking

forum for general discussion of the Democratic presidential primaries. Disruptive meta-discussion is forbidden.