I love DU but I'd be reluctant to recommend it

[politicaljunkie41910]

61. One could also ask why you feel the need to respond to every post you might disagree with?

Can't you just let something you disagree with go? Or is it a numbers game with some of you? Working on that 43,000th post? I must have visited this website for 10 years before I ever posted for the first time. I did however view it as a source of information since I didn't have the time to visit every newspaper, magazine, website, blog, etc and I could easily decipher which posts I was interested in and which I wasn't. I also could tell rather quickly what the newsworthy topics of the day was, and also used it to supplement my local newspaper since I live in a conservative community. I do agree with the original OP that I would be reluctant to recommend it to others for fear that the loudest and most vocal here don't necessarily represent my viewpoints, though I am a self proclaimed progressive, and don't care whether I meet others here definition of what a true progressive is.

One of my initial posts was to ask why people felt the need to use vulgar language to make a point since, being a woman, I find it offensive and would tend to pass over such posts, perhaps missing out on some interesting information. My post was met with more vulgarity which to me spoke for itself. Mature, intellectual people ought to be able to have a conversation without being vulgar, unless the vulgarity is the point that one is trying to make. While perhaps there is a time and place when vulgarity might be called for to reinforce a point or an emotion, more often than not, the use of it does nothing to add to the debate at hand. But obviously others here disagreed with my viewpoint and I can live with that.