Discussionist is closed.

[marble falls]

Went look at what they had to say about last night.

[Celerity]

1. sounded like a cesspool

[marble falls]

2. It was.

[Gothmog]

12. There was a great deal of anger last night and today

A decent bit was directed at me which was amusing. Yelling at and calling a lawyer names has no effect other than to make the lawyer happy.

[marble falls]

13. They're still at it ...

https://hide5.boards.net/search/results?captcha_id=captcha_search&display_as=0&g-recaptcha-response=03AGdBq25Ey09uGUa65nSmQWBQcemQL9aOWvgHaJK5rFn1yLg43lA9CkD3kHvBYIs8fSgGxj2iH86qyEkxRDopfICy4RQTVa3MXyAsJ8DhL-zn7egymyQ1aBzK7rQVMSHkxaOtbu-xhmRVjDX0xOY5-UTYZNtAOVJtl05yo5Squ5iCIxg0XB51W56LakS3oCIEohflA-_v_HGcpbXn0RlG16gdxh1OSGsxriN5zhSiwQ5PORvG9_b7AyMKJqswe-Fsess9MwNRsdRRofL3aA-EjWs6U3FmT6seWrVSf9pwBI4ihFFzWqkEKRqJHVTW7aIXZ3FmMS_a0i_0Ajfmg9gK7qmfJlL5fJr2hr5lgVWLFeKIUpSCpm8eu-RjGQ9rmBGBHx1IvWEqehtX&what_at_least_one=discussionist&who_only_made_by=0

[Locutusofborg]

29. Nothing there

[marble falls]

38. There is. Click it again. Notice 'discussionist' is in the box on top left, Just hit enter.

[DesertRat]

39. Search doesn't work for me

Edited: Never mind, I figured it out.

[Gothmog]

100. Thank you for this link

[Gothmog]

115. That board got nuked

[marble falls]

117. That's funny. I just deleted the link. What did they do???

[Gothmog]

118. The asshole conservatives evidently praised the Wisconsin shooter

Shooting protesters is a evidently a good thing

[marble falls]

119. They are describing their wet dreams. They would love to shoot someone, anyone.

[Gothmog]

120. These idiots have a new board

I read one thread on the Flynn decision and was laughing so hard that it hurt. None of the conservatives could get into a tier one law school or last a week but they want to attack an 8-2 opinion of the DC circuit. http://hide5politics.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=137&start=10 These idiots are fun to laugh at

[marble falls]

121. They still ignore anything they don't want to hear. I went to sign in and got a warning the ...

site is not secure.

[Gothmog]

122. Are there any non-cavers on this board?

[marble falls]

123. Haven't been to the cave in four years. There were DI/Cavers.

[JHB]

3. Let us have a moment of whoopee cushion sounds for Disgustingist

Kazoos and vuvuzelas also accepted.

[beaglelover]

4. LOL!

[yonder]

5. I've taken a peek a few times including last night.

Much of it was in-your-face shouting and accusations with the occasional voice of reason. I wonder if those lost ghosts will start haunting DU? Could last night be a harbinger of things to come?

[marble falls]

7. Nah. MIRT is ready for anything!

[Hortensis]

15. They'll have to be. DU's something of an obsession

for many who hung over there, a large part of the reason for being of what was effectively a satellite forum of DU. They monitored DU constantly for stuff to chortle over, and that focused malice isn't going away.

[H2O Man]

76. +1

[Brother Buzz]

18. Like the Pinkerton Agency, MIR Team members never sleep

[marble falls]

40. ...

[Brother Buzz]

6. It's gone, erased, like it never existed, and as Martha Stewart would say, "It's A Good Thing"

I read the thread yesterday, announcing it was closing, and, Boy howdy, the responses encapsulated everything that was foul with that site. I was planning to read more to see how it was devolving this morning, then, poof, it's gone.

https://www.discussionist.com/1014506303

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Same Here

My favorite stupid response was accusing Skinner of caring more about DU because, (you ready?), it was the profitable site!
Conservative wankers complaining about their privately owned site shutting down and caring about the profit making site.
Kind of socialist for conservatives, ain't it?

[marble falls]

9. I only wish I could have gotten one last lick in on them. It would have been well worth ...

being one of the last ones booted before the lights went out. Whats Pinto Bean going to do now??

SO glad, I only wish I could have been in the middle of all those gnashing teeth!!!

[Hortensis]

25. :) I only wish you'd have copied in that last thread.

I've probably been there twice in two years, but that I would have enjoyed.

Of course, there'll be more than one tooth-gnasher come here to cause trouble. DU was in a very real sense that satellite forum's reason for existence; certainly anti-DU spite was a major energy source. After being able to relax in this happily unified period, MIRT's going to get some heavy exercise.

[Celerity]

10. nothing is ever really gone on the internet, you can find almost anything depending on your

technical skills, dark web included

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.discussionist.com/

random page

[Brother Buzz]

11. As a reformed Luddite, my technical skills suck

Can you find and post Skinner's thread announcing the closure? It might prove to be illuminating to have it documented on this thread.

[marble falls]

17. here ...

Looks Like Di will be shutting down soon
yesterday at 12:02pm
Quote
Post Options
Post by Gamle-ged on yesterday at 12:02pm
The knell:

Shutting down Discussionist

When I started this website, I did so because I believed there is value in having places where people with differing points of view could actually talk to each another.

I still believe that. But unfortunately I stopped believing in the value of this particular community a while ago.

You should expect the site to be shut down fairly soon.

David Allen
Discussionist Admin

[Hortensis]

57. Wow. That was...direct. nt

[Hekate]

89. Short and to the point. Well done, David Allen

[Celerity]

19. here

LINK

[Brother Buzz]

22. Cool beans, all the vitriol responses are captured at the link

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache uCYsIpAPQwJ:https://www.discussionist.com/1014506303+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=se

[Celerity]

23. you need to make a tinyurl or that link will not display correctly on DU do to formatting issues

https://tinyurl.com/

[Brother Buzz]

26. As I stated, I'm a reformed Luddite and can't do anything correct

Thanks

[Celerity]

33. hugz

[Mosby]

30. What site is hide 5?

Any idea?

[Celerity]

34. a chatboard

https://hide5.boards.net/

[Mosby]

37. Thanks. nt

[Celerity]

41. yw!

[Gothmog]

114. That board got nuked

[Gothmog]

21. I copied this post

Here is Skinner's post

Naveed (926 posts)
Shutting down Discussionist

When I started this website, I did so because I believed there is value in having places where people with differing points of view could actually talk to each another.

I still believe that. But unfortunately I stopped believing in the value of this particular community a while ago.

You should expect the site to be shut down fairly soon.

David Allen
Discussionist Admin

[Gothmog]

16. LOL

That is from a while back Graham is a good guy but he stopped posting there about a year ago. Konservative was a really dumb person.

[Maeve]

60. But, oh, what a re-direct!!!!

For those afraid to check, the website link now sends you to https://blacklivesmatter.com/

[DesertRat]

70. Brilliant!

[Brother Buzz]

83. LOL, I didn't see that addition

Boy howdy, the administrators have a wicked cool sense of humor.

[backtoblue]

90. That is awesome!

[demmiblue]

14. I'm glad the admins finally realized that it was a hate site. n/t

[melman]

36. A good three years after it went full 8chan

[2naSalit]

20. At long last. ...nt

[RhodeIslandOne]

24. Hopefully they called a septic company to pump it out first n/m

[hunter]

27. It would make a great sociology thesis. I hope they keep the backup drives...

... no matter how tempting it might be to throw them in the river.

Chaos and Collapse of a Member Moderated Social Media Site: A Case Study.

Discussionist went Lord of the Flies quite some time ago.

I've seen a few sites die in similar ways over the years going all the way back usenet, even for groups entirely unrelated to politics or religion.

I suspect the Republican Party itself will die like that when there's nothing left of it but the quacking of a few angry orange ducks, and its true owners decide to pull the plug on it.

[SWBTATTReg]

28. They sic (bought-nope, wrong word, my bad!) did to themselves.

Last edited Wed Jun 17, 2020, 02:56 PM - Edit history (1)

Watch however, how they blame everyone else now.

[Brainfodder]

110. Did you mean bot or brought? I sensed a typo, but thought you had options!

[SWBTATTReg]

111. Ha ha heh...I always got confused w/ brought, bought, etc. and always got to catch myself ...

and catch/correct...ahhhh!! Take care!

[erronis]

31. Pardon my naivete (sp?) but is this connected to FDL?

I remember back in my Bernie 2016 days being told I should go to FireDogLake.

Are these types of off-shoot sites a continuing danger?

I want to have a variety of sources mentioned but I appreciate the DU team doing some screening.
Perhaps an open/transparent black/white list of what's considered reasonable, and why?

[Brother Buzz]

42. Not at all.

Discussionist was an ill fated experiment created by DU's illustrious owner, Skinner (David Allen).

[Locutusofborg]

32. I'm going to miss Discussionist

I loved debating the right wingers. I was there practically every day, providing facts, statistics and countering right wing propaganda. My user name there was jh4freedom
Since Junior High debate team, I've always enjoyed taking on the other side. I realize that is not for everyone but there was a great but small core of leftys there that rarely let the paranoid right wing wackos go unchallenged.
It was tough work, but somebody had to do it!

[beaglelover]

43. You did a great job over there.

[Locutusofborg]

65. Thanks!

[brokephibroke]

48. You took them to school often

And your peanut gallery was couldn’t handle it.

[Locutusofborg]

67. Yeah but the school was Montessori.

[brokephibroke]

68. Far better than trump U

Where the DIdiots hail from.

[Ptah]

49. Your critical thinking served you well!

[WonderGrunion]

61. Hey Jh

I was Trumplethinskin over there.

[Locutusofborg]

64. I knew that!

Good to see ya!

[gulliver]

75. Nice work over there!

I always clicked your links!

[Gothmog]

84. You did a good job over there

Debating these idiots was amusing. These idiots were incapable of formulating an intelligent argument supported by logic or facts

I also was a debater I did a year and a half on the college circuit and then judged high school debate during undergrad and college debate while in law school

[Eliot Rosewater]

85. And if your experience was anything like mine when I debated righty from time to time

on The Randi Rhodes Message Board, not one of them ever changed their mind or more importantly became willing to hear the truth.

[rictofen]

35. I really liked the layout of the site

And the color-coded aesthetic. The design was brilliant.

[Initech]

44. *Yoda voice* I sense much anger in them!

[Ptah]

45. Using the link from downforeveryoneorjustme.com, it goes to https://blacklivesmatter.com/

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/discussionist.com

https://blacklivesmatter.com/

[hlthe2b]

46. Skinner, THAT was BRILLIANT... (redirect to BlackLivesMatter.com)

[Ptah]

47. +1

[Hortensis]

63. Terrific!

[Gothmog]

88. If you enter the link to DI, you are redirected to the Black Lives Matter

This is a very appropriate FU to the conservatives on DI They are probably too stupid to understand what happen

[gulliver]

50. I'll miss it a little.

I posted as swifty over there.

[marble falls]

51. I loved making little runs into there to strir 'em up a little. Actually a couple there I will miss.

[gulliver]

52. Yeah, same here.

[marble falls]

53. There were two there that were reasonable if totally RW. I posted as Bobsal.

[dumbcat]

54. Who the hell was reasonable?

I must have missed them. The few times I popped over there it was like pure flame wars.

[marble falls]

59. It was 95% flame wars. Grump old man and I never agreed but he never got nasty with me ...

I can remember the othe rone's name now. I haven't been there in about six months.

[Hortensis]

69. Same here. Except for a couple I know by name who'd drop by,

I never knew there were a LW guerrillas there. My extremely rare checks to satisfy some random curiosity always acted as aversion therapy.

[gulliver]

71. I enjoyed your posts.

We had a good group over there.

[marble falls]

77. I could get them roused. Did you happen to see my "what gun would Jesus own?" op?

[gulliver]

81. Lol. I'm sure I did! Rings a bell.

[Hortensis]

93. Lol. No, darn it. What a great title! nt

[marble falls]

96. I thought about little wristbands, WKOGWJO. You could actually smell burning hair.

[Ptah]

55. I posted there infrequently.

micrometer

[gulliver]

56. Hello

[Ptah]

58. I liked your style over there.

[gulliver]

72. Likewise.

I enjoyed your posts.

[WonderGrunion]

62. Hey swifty

I was Trumplethinskin over there

[gulliver]

74. Hi TTS...I enjoyed your posts.

We had a pretty good bunch didn't we?

[Locutusofborg]

66. You were great.

Like Trumplethinskin, two of my favorite fellow leftys.

[brokephibroke]

73. I was TheShoe

Public enemy number one.

[marble falls]

78. I remember you!

[gulliver]

79. Lol.

Yeah, you got them pretty riled up sometimes. I always enjoyed your posts.

[brokephibroke]

82. I'm reformed now

Realized that most of them are incapable of critical thought and not worth the time.

[Gothmog]

86. Hey there

[gulliver]

87. Hey

[Hamer555]

80. The only bad thing about this is.....

Is that we didn't get to watch their heads explode......most of the regular right wingers there appeared to spend little time on anything else.

[gopiscrap]

103. welcome to DU

[George II]

91. Look at what happens when you try their link:

https://www.discussionist.com/index.php

[NurseJackie]

94. That's the best thing ever!!

Imagine their surprise!

[PunkinPi]

95. That's awesome! Well done, Admin. nt

[DFW]

92. I went there once, just after it started. Veni, vidi, satis.

(With apologies to Julius Cæsar).

I came. I saw. I had enough.

[Fiendish Thingy]

97. Dang - as awful as it was, I was hoping it would stick around until November

Just so I could revel in the sweet tears and exploding heads of all those gun humpers , nut jobs, and Q cultists.

[marble falls]

98. They would have been sweet tears indeed!

[Gothmog]

99. I wonder if the abuse of the commercial spam alert played a role in the admin's decision

I started reposting on that board after taking a break for a couple of years due to some hides including a bogus hide for commercial spam. Upon return, I was immediately targeted by the idiots on that board and drew three hides for commercial spam for posting articles from the Washington Post, the NYT, the WSJ, Politico and other publications. The morons on DI were abusing the commercial spam alert to alert articles that they disagreed with or articles that had too many big words. Commercial Spam was defined in the terms of service to be material in which one had an interest and I do not have in interest in the publications that were the subject to these hides. I was also on two or three juries for commercial spam alerts for posts that were clearly not commercial spam. Again the idiots on DI used this objection for any article that they disagreed with or which had too many big words.

I appealed these hides and sent an email to the admins on the abuse of the commercial spam alert. After I learned that that DI was closing I made a few more posts and drew a 5th hide and saw that my account was suspended pending review. Rachel Maddow was coming on and so I watched Rachel before appealing. After watching Rachel and playing with my puppy, I came back to see that I was to be on a jury for a post on a thread that was gloating that my account was suspended. All three of my appeals on commercial spam hides were granted. In addition I was doxed on that thread and the admins had hidden that post and PPR the poster while I was watching the Maddow show. I never saw the post in question but the conservatives gloated about it and I drew some sad but amusing posts accruing me of being responsible for the PPR of that poster.

The conservatives on DI were out of control and I am glad that the admins ended that board. There were idiots on that board who were convinced that trump was going to get 500 electoral votes in the electoral college and that trump was going to get 40% of the African American vote. There were a ton of posts on Obamagate (which they claim was the biggest thing since Watergate) and Anti-fa (despite the fact that there was no evidence in the real world that there was any organization to Anti-Fa). There were a ton of posts about James O'Keefe and some video on Antifa that was clearly faked (a closed Seattle bookstore was evidently the world wide headquarters of Antifa according to O'Keefe) The idiots on that board were convinced that no tear gas was used for trump's photo op and there were some amusing threads before these posters finally gave up after the Washington Post's great video time line that showed police putting on gas masks and being warned about the use of tear gas. There were some truly amusing posters who were clueless about the real world. I also loved the concept that it was not trump's job to unify the country because trump was only the president of his base.

I suspect that the abuse of the commercial spam alert may have played a role in the admins decision to close DI. The idiots who abused the commercial spam alert may have caused the Admins to look at that board and decide to close it. Again commercial spam does not mean articles that a poster disagree with or articles that contains too many big words.

[marble falls]

101. It was weird. While you were away they accused me of being you. So I called all of them 'gothmog' .

the only reason they didn't get me was I cottoned onto the worst six of them and put them on my list of jury exclusions. It worked well, enough. It shut down with me having no hides.

[Gothmog]

102. Thank you hanging in there

They posts over there were so dumb that they were crazy. There was extremely dumb RWNJ crap being pushed over there. The alerts on commercial spam were offensive. The idiots who used this alert and the idiots who voted for such alerts are truly stupid people. Commercial spam does NOT cover or include articles that you dislike or articles with too many big words These idiots may have played a role In the admins decision to close DI

[marble falls]

104. They thought they were in an anarchy. I think it provide a safety valve for here. I bet MIRT ...

has been busy, but there is no danger of a take over.

[Gothmog]

105. DI was in anarchy

The conservatives really believed that commercial spam means any article from the real world that they disagreed with or any article that contained too many big words

[marble falls]

106. I think it was more king of the mountain. And "we ain't moving for nobody". More Lord of the Flies.

[Gothmog]

107. I saw the thread where one of the low IQ DI posters bragged about making bogus alerts

I saw the hidefive thread where one of the low IQ DI posters bragged about killing DI by making truly bogus commercial spam alerts. That thread was amusing and I was sorry to see it moved to the "moshpit" Surely no one is stupid enough to believe that one can get paid for posting martials on a private discussion board. trump supporters in general and DI conservatives in particular are very low IQ idiots who were fun to laugh at

[marble falls]

108. I admit it. I loved stirring them up. I did a lot of hit and run. The best was where they said ...

I was you and I started calling them all Gothmog pointing out things they said I claimed proved it. I made up a lot of it.

Good times. Found a lot of them who were "secretly" posting over here. Got a few of them hidden and a couple booted from DU.

[Gothmog]

109. I loved the post from the idiot who admitted he destroyed DI

Skinner terminated DI with two days of my email describing the abuse of the commercial spam alert and describing some of the issues. on the board. Skinner then reversed three bogus commercial spam hides the same day he announced the termination of DI. It was amusing to me

[marble falls]

112. skinner, EarlG, Elon are very reasonable folks.

[Gothmog]

113. trump supporters tend to be very low IQ people but one poster in question is really stupid

Evidently this idiot is so stupid that this poster believes that I was getting paid for posting things on DI. I am amused that there is anyone out there who is that stupid.

The conservative posters of ID are very stupid people who are clueless as to what is gong on the real world. Some of the items that I posted on DI include

1. Discussion of voter id and voter fraud including the fact that K. Kobach and Greg Abbott could not provide evidence of voter fraud which caused the Texas voter id/voter suppression law to be gutted and the Kansas proof of citizenship requirement to register to vote struck down.
2. The concept that trump is running for re-election to avoid going to jail. If trump is not re-elected, trump will fact criminal charges on a host of issues including some that he will not be able to get rid of with a pardon. After trump loses, he will face prosecution for NY state tax fraud for deducting the payments to reimburse the Stormy Daniels bribes as legal fees
3. The Obamagate meme was fun to laugh at and mock
4. The concept that trump's delay in adopting testing and shutdown procedures killed thousands of US citizens
5. The concept that the Confederate Flag is the flag of treason. I am enjoying the fact that this flag is being banned and confederate statues are being taken down. I love the fact that bases named from traitors are in the process of being re-maned.
6. The concept that felon disenfranchisement laws were part of Jim Crow era and a discussion of the Florida litigation
7. The concept that trump is not physically fit and is suffering from dementia
8. The concept that trump is divisive and is only the president of white people in red states and the POTUS of the entire nation
9. The fact that trump will not win 500 electoral votes. I enjoyed posting polls that show trump is not popular in the real world
10. The fact that tear gas was used for trump's photo op. Even the Park Services and the Secrete Service now admit that the claim that tear gas was not used were false. The Washington Post video showing the use of tear gas was fun to post.

I am enjoyed exposing the conservatives on DI to the real world. The concept that my posts were commercial spam is so stupid that it is funny. I am amazed that there is anyone out there who is that stupid

I agree with the decision by the Admins to close DI. I do miss laughing at the conservatives idiots who post there

[Gothmog]

116. The DI conservative are idiots