I have been excluded from the African-American and Barack Obama groups.

[JDPriestly]

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

I notice that when I start to read an OP that is in one of those groups, I stop reading it and move on to something else.

Does anyone else find themselves skipping posts in groups from which they have been barred. I just noticed this about myself and found it kind of interesting. Thought I would ask whether anyone else finds themselves skipping posts in groups in which they are not allowed to post.

[bravenak]

1. I completely understand why. I have seen it with my own eyes.

[villager]

2. Well, if you're precluded from responding, the posts become a form of lecturing, I suppose...

And anyone still here for "discussion" might find that isn't what they signed up for...

[-none]

3. I don't have to be bared from any groups to skip posts.

Certain people here are too far Right to be posting on Democratic Underground (notice the name) in the first place, yet they are here.

[pnwmom]

6. Oh, right. The people in the AA and Obama groups are too "far Right to be posting on" D.U.

What a crock.

They are Democrats and they all belong here.

[Hekate]

14. A toast to you, pnwmom.

That assessment was indeed a ripe and stinking crock. What a place this has become. >smh<

[pnwmom]

16. Back at you, Hekate.

Nice to see you today.

[petronius]

4. If you 'full trash' a Group, you won't see OPs posted in that group

on the Latest or Greatest page. It's like Ignore: I don't have any groups trashed, but I have realized that a few posters have never posted anything or spawned any sub-threads that I found worth reading. A click of the ignore button, and the static goes away...

[emulatorloo]

5. I skip posts from the serial flame-baiters and the scorched-earth people in GD

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I don't attack protected groups

[JI7]

7. this is why you were banned from the AA Group

your replies in that thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/118722040

[zipplewrath]

10. Yeah, that was really over the top.

That's the kind of "criticism" that the "safe" groups have been formed to "protect" people. Imagine if they actually came up against a truly dissenting opinion. I'm sure they'd completely decompose.

[Rex]

8. Haven't been banned from any groups, just don't go into them.

They are not places that practice free speech. GD is about as close as it gets to that. Groups are for people that don't want to fight over the group topic. So if you want a discussion that might end in a disgreement about the group topic, just move on to something more interesting.

[beam me up scottie]

9. The groups are echo chambers.

That's not necessarily a bad thing but people should know that going in, not all hosts welcome dissenting opinions.

I have several of them trashed but am not barred from any.

[Skittles]

12. Tiger Beat Clubs

yes indeed

[beam me up scottie]

15. Some give you ample warning before banning, others boot you just for showing up.

My favourite group is completely transparent, they have only banned a few disruptors and the hosts post the announcement and reasons so that there's no crying about it after the fact. Of course that doesn't stop some from trying.

[Skittles]

11. I trash a group if they have banned me

they can seriously fuck themselves

[TreasonousBastard]

13. Of course you were...

As BMUS says, most of these groups are echo chambers and do not encourage actual discussion.

The two groups that I was banned from are because I didn't follow the accepted script and the denizens thought that I was arguing with them. The truth is that they didn't like the way I was agreeing with them.

Longwinded treatises are not appreciated, and definitely do not work when just one word or phrase in there pisses someone off.

I haven't trashed those two groups because I am mildly curious what they are up to, but I have to admit I rarely read them too deeply. Quite simply, since they insist on following a script, they eventually get redundant and boring.

A lot of groups that I'm not banned from work the same way, of course.

[TexasTowelie]

17. Locking thread.

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