Pretty pissed off.

[complain jane]

Pissed.

I've only been on DU for a matter of months. I was so happy I found it. I was never interested in politics until Bush came along and I can't stand him or the arrogance of the conservatives.

I post stuff here, and I've also gotten a wealth of information and news sources & stories which I gleefully bring over to another board called Chat Area (Chatarea.com/allpolitics) which is a small board and mostly right-wingers. I get such a kick out of constantly reminding them what a complete loser Bush is.

I also have posted stuff here that they've said, with the sole purpose of getting some help in countering it. Most of the time everyone here is very helpful and very generous with the time they take to respond.

So I started a thread in LBN about ABC's story on Hodges who supposedly claims CBS "misled" him. In that thread I posted that a RW from that Chat Area board was telling me that the Pentagon just announced the Bush documents were fakes. She might be a bitch and a right wing wackjob but she usually doesn't outright lie about something so easily disproven. So I posted that here, and like four people all jump all over me and accuse me of being a troll.

Christ. If anybody's read my friggen posts so far they'd know better than to say something so stupid (not to mention insulting). They bitched because I didn't provide a link, when I said pretty clearly that the info came from someone online and that if/when a link turned up I'd post it. It wasn't even the opening post in an LBN thread, it was a reply to a thread I started to begin with which was complete with link.

OBVIOUSLY I hope this woman is full of shit and that either her Fox News "story" is wrong. But Jesus Christ, before everybody starts jumping all over somebody can you maybe take the five friggen minutes to read one or two of my previous 100+ posts or at least my profile or something?

I really like DU but this is ridiculous. I know trolls come in here, Freepers come in here, but the last thing we need to do is to start alienating people with knee-jerk reactions.

There. I feel better now. I hope I didn't offend anyone. I was just pretty aggravated.

[AlCzervik]

1. I saw your post and i read it

don't feel too bad, we've had tons of trolls in that past couple of weeks and today it seems like they're multiplying.

[caledesi]

5. Same here. I read your post, just did not post. (lazy) nt

[qanda]

2. Don't worry

It's a pretty tense time around DU. Actually, I've never seen it so "jumpy" and quick to accuse. Then again, I've never seen so many Freepers posting either. Just hit the alert because it's against the rules to accuse someone of being a troll and realize that these are strange times. DU will be back to its old self in a couple of months.

[movonne]

3. I think a lot of people here are getting on edge about this

election and with good reason...this election is so important. So forgive us.

[hlthe2b]

4. Most of us have encountered that at some point in time.....

Don't take it personally. It is hard not to have one's motives questioned on a anonymous political forum, especially when we do have lots of disruption activity going on lately. When I post something I know could be controversial, I usually try to include my own thoughts and to convey why I'm posting it so as to avoid being misunderstood. Of course then one gets accused of being overly politically correct! LOL

Just try to take it in stride. I know it is aggravating. It is true that some look for low posting numbers to add to their suspicions, which is not fair to our newcomers, many who may have been lurking for some time before registering. The more you post, though, the more people will get to know you and hopefully have less "reflex' misunderstandings.

:cheers:

[complain jane]

6. Having a bad day too,

so I might have overreacted. Sorry. And thanks.