Should DU Have A "Chicken Little Forum" For The Doom & Gloomers

[KittyWampus]

Poll question: Should DU Have A "Chicken Little Forum" For The Doom & Gloomers

who can't understand why Kerry's numbers aren't going up during the week of the RNC?

Moderators, this is my attempt to invest a bit of levity into this forum and also to encourage a bit of discussion on the need to take a chill and/or get busy campaigning for Kerry. This isn't a real attempt to get Skinner to start a new form on DU. :)
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A fellow DU'er (bushbash ) made the following comment which I couldn't resist featuring in its own thread with attendant poll:

"Think we could set up a 'Chicken Little' forum so the doomed can have a place to play without disrupting those of us optimists who have work to do?"

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. As I posted yesterday...

I think that a good amount of this can be traced to an infestation of smooth, smooth trolls.

We do seem to get a better class of them here. I mean, they spell the word "The" correctly, as opposed to "teh". That most certainly counts for something. ;-)

[Old and In the Way]

8. Notice how they always post their attacks as a question.

Very polite of them. That inclination to spew garbage has been replaced with hand wringing concern.

<edit: I asked a question in my post> ;-)

[MrBenchley]

9. I suspect you're right....

but then the Republicans need a nasty negative campaign that makes voters cynical about both parties.

[eleny]

21. There's that common thread

So I tend to agree with you. The danger here is how do we find help when we ourselves need some help.

But my solution has been to hide the threads. And there have been many. I'm not easily led by veiled attempts but find them so numerous and pesky that I hide them almost immediately based on the subject header.

[devinsgram]

2. Thanks for "Hide the thread" ,

Now that I've found it I use it often.

[TWiley]

3. Now you sound like bush and his "free speech zones"

Maybe the real problem is with the intolerance of others views by people like yourself.

We are a party of diverse opinions and beliefs. Why do you want to homogenize that?

[Bridget Burke]

4. Yes, you came to DU for diversity, but have been disappointed!

Sounds familiar.

[TWiley]

34. You're right. I have been listening to the Republicans censor

any type of speech that does not fit into their scrupulous hail * we are #1 in religious morality rhetoric for the past 3.5 years.

Now DU'ers want to "Dixie Chick" anyone who says "excuse me Mr. Kerry, but you are not wearing any clothes and you have a huge wardrobe at your disposal."

I have invested considerable money, time, and effort into the campaign for John Kerry, and I have heard the arguments at bush speech demonstrations, at the phone bank, and going door to door canvassing.

There appears to be no organized Kerry response to any of the issues or slams that I hear every day, and there just are not that many of them. Furthermore, the only mail I get is a request for more money, with no information on how to handle the latest smear campaign televised by the bushies.

I live in a battleground state, and I want some leadership from the Kerry campaign. Give me solid information to counter these smears, and I will put it to good use.

May I ask the "sky is blue" folks if they are as immersed as I and are getting solid reasons from the public to "not worry?"

I am leaving for NYC tomorrow am to protest the shrub so I will probably miss any responses to my rant.

[KittyWampus]

5. Because When You Homogenize Something It Has A Longer Shelf Life

now lets talk about pasteurization...

[TWiley]

31. That does not offer much respect to our minorities.

Shall we homogenize around white males and exclude all others? Of course, you will have to use the correct vocabulary to be included.

[KittyWampus]

42. No, We Should Homogenize Around The Red Heifers.....

I was not being serious in the previous post. :)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

47. As a white male

I resemble that statement.

[JI7]

6. i know what you mean

there is nothing wrong with suggestions on how we could do better. but most of the posts are reactionary types from those who seem to be the least informed. many times they demand to know why there has been no response to something when there has.

[NV1962]

7. doomed - DOOMED I'm telling ya...

and all because they simply won't listen to my UNIQUE and VERY IMPORTANT opinion on how they SHOULD run their campaign!

:crazy:

[TWiley]

35. Please read and comment on my post

in this thread titled "I have heard the republicans censor .....

I am intrested in the basis of your real life experiences that back your opinion.

[Old and In the Way]

10. Excellent idea.

The DU should have a "Chicken Little" forum where the mods can move these "what's wrong with Kerry?" attacks to. I doubt that few would actually start a thread there, but that's where most of these ought to be located.

[KittyWampus]

11. Nah, The Hide Thread Feature Or Sleepy Man Option Work Well

:)

[NV1962]

12. Sexist! Who says it's a men and that only men sleep huh!

;)

[KittyWampus]

13. Oops, I Meant Sleepy Emoticon

Mea Culpa

:spank:

[NV1962]

15. LOL

[quinnox]

14. Hide thread and ignore function are good enough

I'm starting to notice it is almost always the same handful of posters who love to bitch and moan about Kerry campaign. Interestingly, a few of these have long DU histories of never liking Kerry in the first place. (they liked other candidates in the primaries)

[blondeatlast]

33. The "Alert" and "Hide Thread" buttons are our friends.

I seem to be blocking the same names over, and over, and over...

[incapsulated]

16. No, I think they should be banned...

After a bloody flogging, for making posts that "upset" some people so much.

Jeezus, if you are this thinskinned and easily thrown off course, you should take up some other interest than politics. Or start your own forum, with your own rules that do not allow criticism or dissent. I believe that we still have the freedom to post such criticism on DU, without being sent to the "free speech pen".

:eyes:

[KittyWampus]

20. I'm Not Really Suggesting That, Incapusulated.

Did you read the thread?

[incapsulated]

26. Yes, I did

But even if you are joking there are those who agree with the sentiment here who have been going into even the most mildly critical thread to post insults at those who make a frowny face in the direction of the Kerry campaign. I'm tired of it. Sky is Falling threads can be annoying, but so are We Will Win in a Landslide threads.

I'm getting burnt out myself and think I need a break from DU, anyways, lol. I'm losing my sense of humor, and that's deadly.

:hi:

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

48. Nah

Lock 'em in a room with Karl Rove.

After an hour with that tub of goo they'll all apologize for their negativity.

[gratuitous]

17. Too many choices!

Proposed new poll:

"Should DU have a chicken little forum?"

___ Yes.

___ Hell, yes.

[Stuckinthebush]

18. Campaign 2004: "We can never win!"

I like it.

[TWiley]

40. Please read and comment on my post

in this thread titled "You're right, I have heard republicans censor"

I am genuinely intrested in your real life experiences with the public that back your opinion. This is not a flame, I want Kerry to win also.

[ronnykmarshall]

19. Yes and here's the mascot!

[Southsideirish]

22. Famous CEO once said - most important person in his company

was the one who challenged his decisions and had the courage to tell him when he was wrong.

"Yes men" are a dime a dozen and in campaigns they are lethal.

[KittyWampus]

23. Agreed, Bush Administration Is Perfect Example. Things Go Septic

when organizations are too closed off.

Kerry is smart enough to evaluate and change course if needed. Primary proved this.

[NV1962]

27. are you suggesting to criticize * from within the GOP?

I'm with the winning competitor, John Kerry - he'll fire the sorry ass of *

[Zorra]

24. It's no use. No use at all..... We're doomed. Dooooooomed......

.....to having to put up with a bunch of sniveling whiners, half of whom are probably trolls, until the Democrat tidal wave takes the WH, Senate and House in November.

[TWiley]

38. Please read and comment on my post

in this thread titled "you're right, I have heard the republicans censor"

I am genuinely interested in your recent real life experiences that back your opinion. This is not a flame.

[A_Possum]

25. Yes, I'm really bored by the "I hate Kerry" crowd

They talk too much.

[GOPAgainstGW]

28. YES & NO MORE F--KING WORTHLESS POLL THREADS!!!!!!!

[KittyWampus]

30. Maybe We Need A Special Forum For Worthless Poll Threads!

:D

[wicket]

29. kick!

[madfloridian]

32. I have an idea. Let's do like the GOP and stop all dialogue.

Let's kick all those off who worry and act concerned.

[KittyWampus]

39. And Let's Shut All Of Us Who Are Sick Of The Negativity

We aren't allowed to vent OUR frustration at the incessant handwringing.

That's all I'm saying :)

[TWiley]

41. Please read and comment on my post

in this thread titled "You're right, I have been listening to the republicans censor"

I am genuinely intrested in your real life experiences with the public that back your opinion. This is not a flame, I want Kerry to win also.

[Julien Sorel]

36. Isn't there a science forum here already?

That's where the chicken little posts belong, because they are all busy perfecting a formula that will express the correct velocity of a falling sky.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

37. I think Henny Penny was the one who thought the sky was falling.

Chicken Little was more of a Black Box Voting and LIHOP/MIHOP conspiracy theorist.

[DemBones DemBones]

43. Yeah, setting up a ghetto is a GREAT idea!

:shrug:

[AP]

46. It wouldn't be a ghetto. We'll build it on the most expensive real estate

we can find at DU.

All the finest minds can congregate there.

[Julien Sorel]

49. What do you mean, "ghetto?"

This forum would have the finest minds at DU -- in other words, the most experienced and knowledgeable campaigning geniuses the world has ever seen. There, they could wax poetic about such topics as why running hard left is the key to winning elections in the U.S., how Kerry sucks compared to the dazzling, aggressive, successful campaigning of Howard Dean, how George Bush is stupid, yet every move he makes should immediately be adopted by Kerry, and finally, on the absolutely spineless nature of the Democratic Party, and how much better it would be doing in the polls if it adopted unpopular positions, but stuck to them anyway.


Ghetto? That sounds like utopia to me.

[NightOwwl]

44. When DU adds a "Head-in-the-Sand Forum" for the Unrelenting-Unrealistics

[AP]

45. OK, we'll call it the "Unrelentingly Realistic Forum." Alright?

[John_H]

50. Nope. DU should have a times they are a'changin' forum