Any chance we can get a General Discussion:Primaries board up and running soon?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by DonViejo (a host of the General Discussion forum).

Right now—so long as it’s not Tulsi Gabbard—whoever ends up winning the nomination is secondary to my concerns of what’s going on right now so I’d rather have the crazy back and forth sheparded off somewhere else.

[demmiblue]

1. Yes, please. n/t

[octoberlib]

2. I asked them through Ask the Administrators a couple weeks ago and was

informed they're working on it.

[MyNameGoesHere]

3. Yes please

The hoard is running amuk already. Time to go to the caves.

[thesquanderer]

14. Yes, I already feel like blocking everyone who posts "but Bernie isn't a Democrat." ;-) nt

[theaocp]

16. Cheers to this. I hardly ever trash threads, but damn.

It's been a busy last couple of days. lol

[left-of-center2012]

22. Amen

[hlthe2b]

4. I hope admins will comment to re-state the ground rules...

I really don't think they intended for any and ALL critique of Dem primary candidates to be off limits.

It appears to me that there is a wide variation in how DUers feel about that and thus interpret the "rules."

[babylonsister]

6. I agree. Opinions are ours alone and are/can be

different from critiques. When on a jury, I always grapple with this.

[Renew Deal]

9. I agree

Also the rule about refighting primaries. It’s hard to talk about the future without talking about the past. That, or get rid of the 5 post hide limit.

[Cha]

20. Exactly. It's impossible.

[ms liberty]

5. Please. n/t

[GoCubsGo]

7. Kick and rec.

Everything else is getting lost in the multiple posts that all say the same damn thing. Having to dig down to get to threads on other current events has gotten really old.

[Stargazer09]

19. I definitely agree

Right now, I really don’t care about who is running for President next year.

I usually come here to see what’s happening with the current administration, because the election isn’t going to mean a damn thing if MF45 continues to destroy our country.

[left-of-center2012]

23. Agreed ! n/t

[GoCubsGo]

35. I care, but the actual primaries are almost a year away.

We don't even know everyone who is running. What I don't care about is that so-and-so donated money to Bernie Sanders or whomever. Why do people think that anyone cares?

[Skinner]

8. Yes.

Very soon.

[littlemissmartypants]

32. Thank you. nt

[GoCubsGo]

36. Thank you very much! nt

[cwydro]

10. We've got a big field.

Seems like it’s time.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. Puhleease!

[Demsrule86]

12. Too early...I will vote for any Democrat who wins.

[IronLionZion]

13. Or we could purity purge all of our candidates and let Trump win a second term

Agree on the primaries board. Perhaps post this in ask the admins. They could also open up topic forums for each major candidate as we already have it for Sanders and Warren.

[pdsimdars]

17. Like opening a pit of vipers . . . .

[Cha]

21. No it isn't.. that's an ugly insult.

[lpbk2713]

18. Per Skinner: Rollout is coming soon.

Link: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10139233

See the bottom of his OP.

[Cha]

24. And, there it is.. Thank You for that!

And now, a quick word about primary season on DU...

While I've got your attention, many of you have been asking whether we're going to be opening up a separate forum for the Democratic presidential primaries, as we have in the past. The answer is yes. Once Valentine Hearts week is over, we'll be unveiling the new forum and our plans for primary season. The new forum isn't going to be quite the same as it has been in the past -- we are doing things a little differently this time around, and we hope you will like what we have in store. Soon after the fund drive is over, we will make an announcement explaining everything.

Something new.. how exciting!

[MoonRiver]

25. Yes, and then can we get rid of the Postmortem forum?

I hate looking at that grim reminder every time I click on DU.

[bearsfootball516]

26. How did you even find the postmortum forum? I thought it was gone.

[MoonRiver]

29. It always comes up first when I click on DU.

[IronLionZion]

27. It's a read-only archive and you can't post new threads

You can always just not look at it.

[MoonRiver]

30. I try not too, but just don't like to see it at all.

[Renew Deal]

33. If you into it, is there an orange button that says "unsubscribe"?

Next to the blue New Post button?

[IronLionZion]

34. Click the button on top marked "Trash this forum"

and you won't see it anymore

[SidDithers]

28. DU fucking Rec...

Major candidates have declared. Time to allow a frank discussion.

I asked this if the Admins a few weeks ago. Got this reply:

We don’t have an exact date yet but there will be a primaries forum opening up once we have completed some additional planning and programming. We will make an announcement when we have information to share, hopefully sometime in the next few weeks.

Regards,
EarlG

That was Jan 26.

Sid

[Solly Mack]

31. Soonest, please. Pretty please.

[DonViejo]

37. Locking...

You've posted this in the wrong Forum, please ask it in the Ask the Administrators Forum