What subject creates the biggest Flame War on DU?

[trumad]

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I've got two more slots if any can think of more. I think I pretty much covered it.

12 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Pitt Bulls
	1 (8%)
	Guns
	3 (25%)
	Israel
	0 (0%)
	Muslims
	0 (0%)
	Greenwald/Snowden
	1 (8%)
	MRA/Feminist
	6 (50%)
	Ralph Nader
	0 (0%)
	Clinton--any Clinton
	1 (8%)
	Circumcision
	0 (0%)
	Religion
	0 (0%)
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[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Foreskins? Crappy Blue Dog type Dems, and the need to elect them?

Actually I think I'd vote for that last one. There are specific subsets of folks who will fight any given battle, but given that this is a political site supposedly tied to the fortunes of the Democratic Party, the greatest fights are going to be ABOUT the Democratic Party, it's representatives, and their actual closeness or lack thereof to Democratic ideals and principles.

[trumad]

2. Circumcision added

[hobbit709]

3. Kudzu

[merrily]

4. If you are seeking truth, a poll is not the way to get it, at least not on this question.

Poll answers will reflect perceptions, accurate or not, pet peeves, and/or agendas, not necessarily the factually correct answer to your question.

You asked a question about numbers, not interpretation of poetry. There is an answer to this question that can be determined with some research and a bit of counting. (How much research depends on the time span you want to know about.)

There is a corollary to the question, that is only slightly more subjective, namely, what causes the biggest flame wars on DU. The answer to that can also be determined with some research and a bit of counting, plus a soupçon of judgment calls.

[JonLP24]

5. I guess the first one

Because if you aren't making your case like a Republican (getting things, the analytical approach, reason, logic) they react to you like you're the dumbass.

It reminds of the Ebola threads which thankfully the Midterm elections killed that ridiculous nonsense and hardly even seen an Ebola thread, much less an unscientific fear based arguments for proposals such as charging Ebola victims for a crime because they went to a bowling alley.

[brooklynite]

6. You left out vegans

[el_bryanto]

7. Religion? nt

[trumad]

14. Added

Can't believe I forgot that one.

[Sancho]

8. Atheists?

No matter. I'm gonna say, "Olive Garden"!

[HappyMe]

9. Currently, it's Muslims.

I don't see any pittbull wars because I dumped it into my key word trash. Gun wars belong in the gungeon. The spiderwoman comic and SI cover created epic flame wars.

[Laffy Kat]

10. There is also breast-feeding and when to stop breast-feeding. nt

[branford]

11. Vegan, Zionist, Muslim, uncircumcised NYPD officers who own pit bulls and eat at Olive Garden ? nt

[Fumesucker]

12. Trumad posts?

[randome]

13. Seriously?

Because OWS and Snowden/Greenwald are by far the most divisive subjects, IMO.
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[trumad]

16. You're right--

I replaced Olive Garden with Greenwald, Snowden.

[Marr]

50. I don't think 20 people screaming constantly makes it particularly divisive.

The anti-Greenwald brigade is pretty small. They're just incredibly prolific and antagonistic.

[pinboy3niner]

15. Corn flake-fried chicken!

Even though it was never relegated to a -geon, Skinner at one point banned all chicken threads because of it.

[CTyankee]

27. To my sorrow, I missed that thread (probably before my time here...).

Funny that Skinner had to ban all chicken threads for a while...poor Skinner, here he goes and creates a political website with high hopes and intentions and ends up with....a chicken?

[pinboy3niner]

29. Poor Skinner must have heaved a deep *thigh* at that one

It may have been before my time, too, but I try to keep a breast of history. You never know when somebody's gonna pullet out again.

[CTyankee]

30. har de har har har...

[Arugula Latte]

37. Skinner cried fowl when the Great Chicken Wars broke out.

Some of those posters got too cocky, and Skinner didn't want them to egg each other on anymore. He didn't want to just wing it, so he brooded about it and realized he was stewed. Now he considers his authoritative shutdown of those threads as a feather in his cap.

[HappyMe]

38. Eggzactly!

[pinboy3niner]

41. My hat's off to you, Arugula Latte

That was supbird!

[Arugula Latte]

57. Why, thank you, pinboy the punboy!

I bow to the master, though!

[Nye Bevan]

17. Just like a white dude to leave out "white privilege".

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And related to that, this was a 500+ post epic:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024949246#post531

[oberliner]

42. That was pretty funny

If it was meant sarcastically. Which I hope it was.

[DrDan]

18. I think a more interesting poll would be "WHO creates the most flame wars on DU"

[el_bryanto]

21. you can't really ask that question without calling people out.

Unless you went with general types, I suppose.

Bryant

[DrDan]

35. of course . . . I meant it rhetorically

all long-termers know the answer anyway

[sibelian]

24. We don't need polls for that.

It's clear who the big flamethrowers are.

[DrDan]

34. you have a point there

[pipi_k]

19. Some of those

have probably caused bigger flamewars than what I voted for, but not on an as-frequent basis.

Which is why I went with "Feminist/MRA".

They seem to be moderately large, yet way more frequent than some of the larger volume flamewars. So that makes them bigger, IMO.

[yuiyoshida]

20. what is MRA?

[maryellen99]

22. Men's Rights activist nt

[yuiyoshida]

25. Ah thank you

Maryellen !

[Nye Bevan]

23. Oh, you also forgot Spiderwoman's ass.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025431864

That thread cost us at least one good DUer IIRC.

Or does this count as "Feminist/MRA"?

[melman]

26. Diet/Weight issues

[H2O Man]

28. Zimmermaniacs!

George's, not Bob's.

[olddots]

31. music

Bring up the band The Four Skins and everyone starts flaming .

[Reter]

32. Pit bulls

As soon as one person gives examples that many turn on their loving owners, their defenders come to their defense.

[Kaleva]

33. I think the fried chicken debate was the only topic forbidden here at DU for a time

Skinner's words on the subject:

"And then I get incredulous emails from people who are shocked, shocked that discussion of chicken -- chicken fercryinoutloud -- is not allowed. As if the discussion of chicken is something that is vitally important and that everyone is really interested in."

[salin]

36. LoL funny how time changes things.... in 2002-2005 2 words that don't even appear now:

Ralph Nader

Not even on DUs internal Richter scale anymore.

[oberliner]

43. If it wasn't for Nader, Joe Lieberman might still be a Democrat!

And quite possibly POTUS.

[GusBob]

39. None of the above

By my reckoning it would be generational differences ( i.e boomers vs millenials) or given the demographics lately of this forum ( older as people go to trendy social media), ageism.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

40. High Fructose Syrup

[dembotoz]

44. declaw cats

[Scruffy Rumbler]

45. Asian Wood Carvers? NT

[aikoaiko]

46. Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition cover thread was epic.

[TBF]

47. Vaccines/GMOs

although those are probably bigger on the mom's boards out there, sometimes they show up here too

[KamaAina]

48. Olive Garden, of course

I hear there's one in Times Square.

[Blue_Tires]

49. For those who remember the early days: Furries

[Blue_Tires]

51. Two huge ones you forgot:

1. Porn/Erotica/Art

2. This happens so often we don't even notice it -- The age-old "Why we should run a true leftist in this race instead of a pragmatic moderate who polls say have the best chance of winning (or vice-versa)" -debate...

[Demit]

52. Vaping. Haven't seen a thread recently, but ppl duke it out for days on that topic.

[still_one]

53. Everything in the general discussion

[upaloopa]

54. Obama can do no wrong vs Obama isn't perfect

[Freddie]

55. Shaving certain body areas

Or not.

[CrispyQ]

56. Controlling human population.

[mmonk]

58. Whether to elect more third way Democrats

to "win" the next election or not.

[bikebloke]

59. No "Robb is a dingbat"?