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In reply to the discussion: Leave Discussionist Alone. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)being a Democrat. I was comforted to see the reaction even of people I thought would join in the 'fun', Bush supporters at the time. It taught me not to judge everyone by the actions of a few and while we never could agree politically, at least I learned there was a limit to their otherwise 'lockstep' behavior when it came to threats to 'even' a Liberal woman.
Thanks for the links, if they have already been alerted on then I guess it wouldn't help to alert again.
I am sorry about that nasty troll. I agree with you that such trolling should result in banning. I am under the impression that this has already happened to this particular troll.
All I can say is if you think you ARE personally threatened then call the police. I thought about doing so myself as the threats were far more real AND the person claimed 'I know where you live' which was pretty frightening. In the end he turned out to be a coward I suppose. It did cause a few stressful days and taught me to be very careful about giving out personal info on the internet.
Wrt to the banning of the DUer who went over to alert, perhaps it was a misunderstanding?
I am glad you are not joining those who are calling for shutting down an entire site because of a few trolls, that was my only reason for posting this OP. I was glad to see that action was taken and that the juries all voted unanimously to hide those vile comments.