Why is DU moving so fast?

[kentuck]

It seems a little more difficult to catch up.

Are we getting more visitors?

It would be interesting to hear what brought them back and what brought them to DU for the first time?

However, I'm not sure most of the posts will be very enlightening?

Just an observation from another point of view.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. The death of Twitter

...made me come home.

[kentuck]

3. I never really got on the Tritter Twain.

I thought it was sort of like DU when it moves too fast.

[shrike3]

2. More low-posters, I'm noticing.

I'll be yelled at soon, for discounting them.

[shrike3]

10. Yep. Hung out all this time and "suddenly" decided to comment.

[shrike3]

14. One went back to 2007.

And only a few posts. Until now.

[bdamomma]

9. Yes, I

noticed the same thing new posters.

[B.See]

4. Speed force?

nah.. seriously, must be a lot to say and a whole lot more to talk about.

[Iris]

7. This pace used to be fairly common during the Bush years

[B.See]

15. Wasn't here back then. But I have noticed

that things posted only a minute ago are already buried beneath 5 or more more recent posts. So I can only surmise it's because of the sheer volume of entries.

[Woodwizard]

5. Election close betting an uptick of bot accounts.

And with AI they pass the Turing test. Unless you really pay attention.

[LookingGlassOnion]

11. Hiring fake posters costs money.

The people with money to throw around on that are not our allies. They want disproportionate influence to benefit their own private interests.

[DemocraticPatriot]

13. It probably costs less in Russia

[LookingGlassOnion]

17. Probably. But many of these are wealthy Americans who are "donors" (read: a protection racket) and...

..want disproportionate access and influence.

[DemocraticPatriot]

21. I don't believe very many "wealthy donors" are posting on DU....

it is actually a rather obscure site, with a relatively small membership---
more easily found by Russian bots than wealthy donors...

[LookingGlassOnion]

22. It is not actually.

I've been a dem since I was a kid thanks to a good mom in a red state.

I have been reading Democratic Underground since the W Bush's first term. I just joined now because the wealthy donors are pushing the Democratic Party into many years in the wilderness.

But, people I know of the last decade or so have known what I'm talking about when I mention Democratic Underground. They just aren't members.

The quote marks don't around wealthy, they go around "donors" because it is a protection racket.

[alarimer]

16. I stayed away for years.

I figured it was bad for my mental health, but recently it’s sucked me back in.

Twitter is down the tubes after Elon…so I don’t know where else to go.

[NewHendoLib]

18. It's moving fast because feelings, and opinions, have been inflamed by recent news

More people here have more to say. It has become a crazy busy news cycle.

[ecstatic]

19. I think a lot of people are alarmed because we thought the eruption ended last week

and now it's back in full effect. It's upsetting and people need to vent, I guess.

[Bev54]

20. I have noticed a few that have only been open since end of June and have several hundred posts already.

That seems odd. Maybe it is just me but I started out slow.

[Fla Dem]

23. I agree. Was caught up in General Discussion when I signed off last night at 8:00.

When I logged in this morning at 7:30 I had 6 pages of new posts at 50 posts per page. I just deleted a ton of them as they are repeated news.

Lots of low count posters, some with recent join dates others with join dates several years ago. Also find lots of essay writers. Long winded expressions of ideology and points of view. While I appreciate their enthusiasm, I don't have the time to read them.

[kentuck]

24. It gets more difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff...

More posters and more readers are good for the owners of the site.

We just have to try and stay moored to the truth.