Reply #46: Quinnox, I am very glad you made that point.

[DagmarK]

I am not suggesting in ANY way that any 2 or more people on DU gather and decide to put X person on ignore. That is mean-spirited cliquish high school stuff. It's sick social dynamics.

I am not suggesting that at all. I am just sending a message to some serious DUers who may feel as I feel that there is a BIG battle to be won (beat bush's butt out of Washington).....and that the integrity of debate has diminished dramatically because of certain 'debate tactics.' And I am asking people to discriminate and not give power to that. The tool to use is the ignore function. Just block it out and maybe this board can become a lean fighting machine to accomplish the ultimate goal. But that's up to the individual duer to decide who he or she thinks is disruptive. If we all do that.....odds are.....we will have similar ignore lists. No doubt about that. But not because some group consciousness sat like God and ostracized those people. They will have ostracized themselves -- one duer at a time.

Frankly, the debate atmosphere around here (about candidates, religion, and a few other topics) has become like BUCKSHOT just flying all over the place. I can't focus in such an environment, and I am done trying.