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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDiscussionist is closed.
Went look at what they had to say about last night.
Celerity
(43,068 posts)marble falls
(56,996 posts)Gothmog
(144,884 posts)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
(56,996 posts)Locutusofborg
(524 posts)marble falls
(56,996 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Edited: Never mind, I figured it out.
Gothmog
(144,884 posts)Gothmog
(144,884 posts)marble falls
(56,996 posts)Gothmog
(144,884 posts)Shooting protesters is a evidently a good thing
marble falls
(56,996 posts)Gothmog
(144,884 posts)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
(56,996 posts)site is not secure.
Gothmog
(144,884 posts)marble falls
(56,996 posts)JHB
(37,152 posts)Kazoos and vuvuzelas also accepted.
yonder
(9,654 posts)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
(56,996 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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.
Brother Buzz
(36,364 posts)marble falls
(56,996 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,364 posts)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
(64,827 posts)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
(56,996 posts)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
(58,785 posts)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
(43,068 posts)technical skills, dark web included
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.discussionist.com/
random page
Brother Buzz
(36,364 posts)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
(56,996 posts)Looks Like Di will be shutting down soon
yesterday at 12:02pm
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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
(58,785 posts)Hekate
(90,537 posts)Celerity
(43,068 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,364 posts)Celerity
(43,068 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,364 posts)Thanks
Celerity
(43,068 posts)Mosby
(16,252 posts)Any idea?
Celerity
(43,068 posts)Mosby
(16,252 posts)Gothmog
(144,884 posts)Gothmog
(144,884 posts)Here is Skinner's post
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
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
(42,269 posts)For those afraid to check, the website link now sends you to https://blacklivesmatter.com/
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,364 posts)Boy howdy, the administrators have a wicked cool sense of humor.
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)demmiblue
(36,816 posts)melman
(7,681 posts)2naSalit
(86,308 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)hunter
(38,301 posts)... 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
(22,059 posts)Last edited Wed Jun 17, 2020, 02:56 PM - Edit history (1)
Watch however, how they blame everyone else now.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,059 posts)and catch/correct...ahhhh!! Take care!
erronis
(15,170 posts)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
(36,364 posts)Discussionist was an ill fated experiment created by DU's illustrious owner, Skinner (David Allen).
Locutusofborg
(524 posts)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
(3,459 posts)Locutusofborg
(524 posts)brokephibroke
(1,883 posts)And your peanut gallery was couldnt handle it.
Locutusofborg
(524 posts)brokephibroke
(1,883 posts)Where the DIdiots hail from.
Ptah
(33,019 posts)WonderGrunion
(2,995 posts)I was Trumplethinskin over there.
Locutusofborg
(524 posts)Good to see ya!
gulliver
(13,168 posts)I always clicked your links!
Gothmog
(144,884 posts)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
(31,106 posts)on The Randi Rhodes Message Board, not one of them ever changed their mind or more importantly became willing to hear the truth.
rictofen
(236 posts)And the color-coded aesthetic. The design was brilliant.
Initech
(100,029 posts)Ptah
(33,019 posts)hlthe2b
(102,105 posts)Gothmog
(144,884 posts)This is a very appropriate FU to the conservatives on DI They are probably too stupid to understand what happen
gulliver
(13,168 posts)I posted as swifty over there.
marble falls
(56,996 posts)gulliver
(13,168 posts)marble falls
(56,996 posts)dumbcat
(2,120 posts)I must have missed them. The few times I popped over there it was like pure flame wars.
marble falls
(56,996 posts)I can remember the othe rone's name now. I haven't been there in about six months.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I never knew there were a LW guerrillas there. My extremely rare checks to satisfy some random curiosity always acted as aversion therapy.
gulliver
(13,168 posts)We had a good group over there.
marble falls
(56,996 posts)gulliver
(13,168 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)marble falls
(56,996 posts)Ptah
(33,019 posts)micrometer
Ptah
(33,019 posts)I enjoyed your posts.
WonderGrunion
(2,995 posts)I was Trumplethinskin over there
gulliver
(13,168 posts)We had a pretty good bunch didn't we?
Locutusofborg
(524 posts)Like Trumplethinskin, two of my favorite fellow leftys.
brokephibroke
(1,883 posts)Public enemy number one.
marble falls
(56,996 posts)gulliver
(13,168 posts)Yeah, you got them pretty riled up sometimes. I always enjoyed your posts.
brokephibroke
(1,883 posts)Realized that most of them are incapable of critical thought and not worth the time.
Gothmog
(144,884 posts)Hamer555
(75 posts)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
(23,725 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Imagine their surprise!
PunkinPi
(4,874 posts)DFW
(54,268 posts)(With apologies to Julius Cæsar).
I came. I saw. I had enough.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,544 posts)Just so I could revel in the sweet tears and exploding heads of all those gun humpers , nut jobs, and Q cultists.
marble falls
(56,996 posts)Gothmog
(144,884 posts)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
(56,996 posts)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
(144,884 posts)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
(56,996 posts)has been busy, but there is no danger of a take over.
Gothmog
(144,884 posts)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
(56,996 posts)Gothmog
(144,884 posts)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
(56,996 posts)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
(144,884 posts)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
(56,996 posts)Gothmog
(144,884 posts)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