Sick of flame bait but dont want an alert for calling the poster a poo head?

[McCamy Taylor]

Do not discuss the “person” who wrote or said it. None of us is a person in the usual sense when it comes to politics. There are no “trolls” only words designed to undermine and destroy.

Instead, critique the words themselves. Usually, the words will be intended to start infighting and piss someone off, since Democratic Unity is our strength. In which case a few simple words will suffice. (Altogether now...)

“Divide and Conquer is the GOP’s favorite political strategy.”

You would be amazed at how effective these words can be.

[Sneederbunk]

1. I agree, which makes me wonder why there is discussion of religion here.

[McCamy Taylor]

2. Correct answer Freedom of religion.

See it is easy to find common ground.

[Sneederbunk]

3. Freedom only to a certain extent.

Seems to be discussion regarding non-believers and Christians only. Other major religions are off limits.

[anneboleyn]

5. Dont we have a forum specifically for discussions of religion? Shouldnt posts about religion be

posted in that forum? I don’t think those topics are supposed to be in the GD forum anyway?

[Sneederbunk]

6. Why is there a religion forum on a political blog?

[RussBLib]

9. because religion is very tied up with politics?

Democrats do in fact have interests beyond politics

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. The same reason there is a Sports forum and a

Science forum and a Reading and Writing forum......we have varied interest.

[Hekate]

16. Ther are actually quite a few religion groups here, because we are not one-dimensionsl ...

...in our interests. There are also cooking and baking groups, backyard chicken groups, book groups -- you name it, DU has it. We get to be friends, then discover mutual IRL interests, and there you go.

[Hekate]

17. GD is General in nature

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Those discussions are easily avoided, should you wish to...

as are discussions of pets and food.

[bitterross]

12. People hit the Latest Threads tab without thinking. Assuming it is General Discusson

That is my theory for why people go off on tirades about posts that are properly posted in a group or forum on the subject matter.

On that latest threads tab, of course, all groups get represented. I have, on occasion, seen a post by doing that and then had to look and see which group/forum in which it was posted to assure myself someone wasn't really trying to stir things. It is this step, I believe, people don't think to do before responding.

[TexasProgresive]

4. Sometimes you have to put them in time out

Like ignore for a while

[McCamy Taylor]

11. Ignore works for the Look at mes! But not for serious agitators.

[eleny]

8. I was thinking about this yesterday and decided to dump divisive threads

They appear like clockwork. One dies out and before you know it the same old themes appear and start long debates. Nothing is resolved. So I'm decluttering and it does me good not to even see the threads appear again.

I'm not encouraging the practice. Just sharing what works for me.

[Skittles]

13. we all know who you are talking about

he is a FUCKING TROLL and EVERYONE FUCKING KNOWS IT

[Hekate]

15. He may or may not be a poo head, but he sure needs a ass-kicking

[RhodeIslandOne]

29. I dunno

I can think of several people who I wonder how they've managed to duck the reaper.

[edhopper]

14. What did I miss?

llink the thread anyone?

[Skittles]

20. it's not allowed

that would be filed under CALLING DUers OUT FOR WHAT THEY FUCKING ARE or something like that; you'd get a hide

[edhopper]

24. a simple link to the post in qusetion

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doesn't violate SOP.

[Skittles]

25. you might want to check your spell-check

yes INDEED

[edhopper]

31. What

you never heard of an aimple link?

[Skittles]

32. are you asking a qusetion?

[edhopper]

33. lol

btw, still looking for that thread.

How about a simple lunk to it.

[betsuni]

18. But it's hard to critique the words themselves when there's an avalanche of them and

the opinions expressed aren't based on anything real and there's no point except for a vague passive-aggressive attack on Democrats repeated over and over, with a sprinkling of apologies when the insults are too obvious. I say they are POO HEADS and I say to hell with them.

[Skittles]

19. there's a DU member with 40,000+ posts who is a fucking troll

s/he does not fool me one fucking bit

[betsuni]

21. I know! It's obvious...

[A-Schwarzenegger]

22. Who dat? Inbox me, somebody, please.

thanks...

[raccoon]

23. Same here, PM me please. Nt

[RhodeIslandOne]

30. Me too

If anyone knows I'm curious. I have a few thoughts of my own.

[MadDAsHell]

26. I dont understand why ignoring is so hard for some DUers.

It’s that “OMG, someone is wrong in the internet” syndrome.

Trolls exist because DU feeds them. They get off on the panic attacks you have every time they post. If you ignored the posts as if they weren’t there, they’d disappear quickly. Posting flame bait is no fun if no one replies.

I assume most of us are adults, though you wouldn’t necessarily know it from the complete inability to control our own emotions and actions sometimes.

[njhoneybadger]

27. It seems to be an obsession and it's getting fucking old.

[Soxfan58]

28. It's not only their political strategy

But their governing strategy to.