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Showing Original Post only (View all)DU used to be a board where one could call out ignorant opinons. [View all]
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Now it has become a place where juries no longer take into context the OP when the OP poster says something absolutely crazy and some one calls them out about it.
DU has become a place where you can post almost any idiocy as an OP and when people call one out about it their posts are hidden as being not very polite or nice.
That is just wrong.
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I am assuming it is that one as he already made a post about the other one.
Behind the Aegis
Jan 2015
#15
If you have not done so, you might try raising that in the admin forum or via pm to Skinner.
merrily
Jan 2015
#29
I pay twenty bucks a year from a retiree on SS for most of my income for my star. DU would....
marble falls
Jan 2015
#30
Try calling out the OP in a tactful way. Also, you can report an OP if it is absolutely crazy.
JDPriestly
Jan 2015
#14
Unfortunately, having been a victim of some of this kinda stuff myself, I'll have to agree.
AverageJoe90
Jan 2015
#17
I think an unrec button might be a good thing if the recs would reflect a correction if the ....
marble falls
Jan 2015
#25
The altrenative is not going to be pleasant for most people. Think Discussionist without juries.....
marble falls
Jan 2015
#24
I remember when the group of people I belong to would try to educate the ignorant
Jamastiene
Jan 2015
#31