Shut Discussionist down!...

[DonCoquixote]

288. Ok, I will try to be polite here

" Once you pay your money to DU, the money is no longer yours. Suggesting that you should be able to control how DU spends its money is like your employer trying to tell you how to spend your paycheck."

OK, I will try to be polite, but this is LUDICROUS, and I will explain why.

DU has been allowed to exist because it served a certain need. Every so often, it begs for money, dragging out Grovel-bot, begging for money. DU's main pretext for getting the money that it knows it will need is that it will support the DU members. They make their money because there is a DU community here, one that invests their money to have a space to exist.

Now when you do something to actively HURT DU members, we have every right to say "hey! why did you do that?" If we can see the rape threat, or the comments like "1 down, 4 to go", then damn well they can, and what have they done? Even if it is a worded speech warning people that if they did not knock off the rape threats, it would say something, at least leave a clear border drawn that the rapeposters would wind up crossing "See, we told you not do to that and you did it anyway, goodbye."

If DU wants to be mealy mouthed and say "I gots yer money now, nyah nyah!" then they can learn that it is the corporations that are disposable, not the people, because the people can and will find other channels, however, I do not want that, because in this society, that just means that the right wing gets their comfy chairs and servants pouring them tea, while we are Nomads for anyone to kick about. If WE built this community, and damn right WE did, as Liberals, we need to be able to say "No, we will NOT hand over this land, and if you decided to burn it to make it useless, we will exact the highest possible cost from you."