tap tap tap.....is this thing on ?

[pacalo]

12. People are more prone to read about the newbies rather than post in the Welcome forum.

We think of DU as an oasis from what you described in your opening post (OP, as we call it) about other over-the-top discussion sites. We tend to be protective against outside rightwing troublemakers, which happens with regularity, so be mindful of that if you post anything that goes against the general flow of opinion. We all have gone through it when we were newbies with low post counts.