I am simply amazed at how people continually post the wrong subject matter in this forum

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25. That is an accurate description

When at least one campaign has a declared staff member posting nothing else on DU but what their candidate is up to and how wonderful they are, all pretense of a discussion board goes out the window. I have seen this in 2008 and 2016 as well (I heard 2004 was similar, but I wasn't here then--just as well: a friend of mine was a candidate that year!). People magically materialize on DU to promote a candidate or just to make trouble, and then vanish in the haze once the primary is decided. I guess we should be flattered that we are considered important enough to merit the attention. Usually, though, it just creates bad blood. I'm frankly surprised that the owners of DU are still cool with it. But, like in ancient Rome, when the emperor went to the coliseum to watch gladiators slaughter themselves, people were not under any obligation to attend, and they could leave any time. The same goes for the Primaries board. I do look, but do not stick around to watch the blood thicken the sand of the arena.

By the way, the Russian trolls are usually easy to spot because of their imperfect English. I know some Russian, and thus know what grammatical errors to look for. Russian does not have articles (a, the), and native speakers of Russian are often unsure where to put them, or when to leave them out. Another thing to remember is that Russian has no present tense of the verb "to be," so they often leave out "is" or "are." Also, Russian is declined, so Russian speakers often leave out words like "of." Where an English speaker would say "Chicago is a city full of busy people, a Russian not completely fluent in English might say, "Chicago city full busy people."