I have resisted the urge to use the "ignore" fucnction for nearly a year.

[Leftist Agitator]

But today did it for me. Hillary supporters have fucked up DU so badly that I hardly recognize it.

There are only 100 or so of the most disruptive. Fellow Obama supporters, if you haven't done so yet, you might want to strongly consider using ignore.

I'll tell you, it's like getting my old DU back!

[City Lights]

1. Ignore is my bff.

Well, if not forever, at least until the primary is over. :D

[mrreowwr_kittty]

25. A good portion on my list are racist so there's little chance of them coming back. nt

[Nitrogenica]

2. It takes about 30 ignores and it clears right up.

It's just like the old DU for the most part for me now.

I never ignored anyone after many years on DU until the "cult" crap started.

[jimshoes]

20. That's about right

mine numbers about 30 and what a difference it has made. I still give lots of leeway to long timers but sometimes I have to wonder about their real motives.

[Nitrogenica]

23. Yah some long timers creepily use the same false arguments.

I give them more consideration, but not much.

[Adelante]

3. I use it liberally

I used to think it was a bad idea, but not anymore. I put anybody on Ignore who either upsets or bores me. I'll open it up once the primary is over and half of them will be gone by then, I am sure.

[Danger Mouse]

4. I don't put everyone I dislike on ignore...

but the ones i REALLY can't stand, i put on ignore.

[depakid]

5. Group think makes one feel good, eh?

and you wonder why the cultish criticism came into being.

[MADem]

10. I think there are mostly Obama supporters in this forum, but this place has

never been representative of the party as a whole.

Funny how they can't take any critique at all....

[Leftist Agitator]

11. No, what makes me feel good is not seeing "Democrats" tear down...

The man who will UNDOUBTEDLY be the Democratic nominee.

There is a contingent of Hillary supporters who put their support for her candidacy ahead of their loyalty to the Democratic party.

Some of them have declared that they will support McCain so that Hillary can run again in 2012.

If wanting to cut those types out of my DU experience is "group think", then I stand guilty as charged.

[BeatleBoot]

14. All that in just 26 posts?

I think that is a record of achievement!

Bravo!

[Leftist Agitator]

19. I've been here since last May.

I don't post much, because I come here to read and educate myself.

So, yeah, 26 posts over eleven months, and I've seen things that utterly disgust me.

So much, that I've finally started to use ignore.

Now, do you have anything productive to contribute, or should I just add you to the list now and save time?

[Moochy]

21. Save Time

Add Bootsy to the list.

[Evergreen Emerald]

16. Mob mentality: and very much like Bush's followers --agree or leave

Or you are a traitor.

This "group think" is actually more like mob mentality.

[depakid]

17. Case proven

The caps on "undoubtedly" for emphasis kinda goes along with that.

As much as anything, politics is a game of perceptions- and few things (and no candidate) will win without a doubt. From what I can see, there's still a few primary elections left- and more than plenty of time for the unexpected to happen.

In the fall, it was Hillary supporters waxing arrogant and posting their cases for inevitability.

(for what it's worth, I posted some "comment" about that, too. ;) ).

[Leftist Agitator]

22. Look, what are the odds that Clinton can win fair and square?

10000 to 1?

1 million to 1?

Staying in the race is an exercise in vanity at this point.

But Hillary seems to have more than enough vanity to go around.

[depakid]

30. The odds are pretty slim

though unlike Edwards- who probably had some personal reasons for dropping out when he did, she's actually won some key states.

My thoughts are that Obama should simply keep going to to toe and winning primaries- that's the way to make one's case. Let Hillary's campaign do what they will. If nasty things come out in April and May- all the better to deal with them early, rather than, say, be blindsided in October.

[Tarheel_Dem]

12. Oops! How did I miss you? nt

[newfie11]

6. The only thing I see on DU is obama supporters

I figured we had all left or just not saying anything. I sort of feel the way you do about obama supporters. Ignore button here I come.

[NC_Nurse]

7. I know what you mean.

[QC]

8. I used it for a while but recently stopped.

I found that I was missing most of the comedy of the DU experience.

[nichomachus]

9. You lasted longer than I did

I've been a member for quite a while, and have visited occasionally, but haven't been posting until lately.

However, I started using ignore today.

I give you credit for holding out.

There are some people who are like one of those annoying car alarms that go off every five minutes.

As a Kucinich supporter, I was undecided between Hillary and Obama. I was hoping to find some rational discussion to help me decide. I've found some of that, but I've found the Hillary supporters -- or at least a very vocal group of them -- to be abusive and offensive. They call people names, twist the truth into the most contorted shapes, and generally make Hillary look very bad. It's probably unfair, but it's hard not to develop bad feelings for a candidate when their supporters are calling you names.

So, I've started ignoring some of the worst offenders.

On the other hand, I've never had an Obama supporter say anything abusive to me. What's that all about? I thought they were just bitter, naive, cultists.

[shraby]

13. I resisted for a long time too, but

I finally put some on ignore and DU is rather pleasant to read now without all the hateful remarks from Hillary supporters.

[crispini]

15. Enjoy! I just put the assholes (of both camps) on ignore.

It's fun to go into a thread and watch "ignored" arguing with "ignored." :rofl:

[MonkeyFunk]

18. awww

are we disrupting the acoustics in your echo chamber?

[cooolandrew]

24. Did it long ago. I admire you ptients to this point though. Avoid people who vex the soul.

[Rockholm]

26. You haven't even been here for a year.

Same can be said for the Obama supporters. You're blind...and bitter.

[Leftist Agitator]

28. What's your point?

I was an independent for a number of years, and Bush and the gang pushed me way to the left over the years. It wasn't until a close friend of mine was ordered to Iraq that I started to become more active in politics.

"You're blind...and bitter."

Well, I give you credit for using the proper hyphenated form of "you're", but aside from that, welcome to ignore.

:hi:

[emilyg]

31. What's your point?

All that unity got old? You want an Obama only forum - go somewhere else.

[Leftist Agitator]

34. You want a Hillary only forum?

They have those elsewhere you know. As for me, I'll just stay here and put you on ignore.

How's that sound?

[emilyg]

35. My dear - i don't care what you do or don't do

[Rockholm]

38. They sure get testy, don't they?

Thank you for added sanity to DU!

[L0oniX]

27. Seven of the 35 I have on ignore have been given the tomb stoned....

and the rest are mostly Hillarat supporters. :evilgrin:

[Two Americas]

29. where?

I do not support either candidate, and don't care who wins the mean-spirited battles around here. Where are these awful Clinton supporters? It seems to me that the ugliness is running 100-1 the other way.

Is it that anyone expressing any reservations or criticism of Obama to be considered "disruptive?" I see some nasty back and forth exchanges - but for the most part the Clinton supporters are all on the run here.

These nasty phrases about Clinton and Clinton supporters keep getting repeated over and over again, and then are assumed to be true by people. It looks to me like an ongoing vicious and unprincipled gang attack on anyone not 100% on board with the Obama campaign.

[emilyg]

32. Exactly.

[Catherine Vincent]

41. Correct!

[LWolf]

33. I'm not a supporter of HRC, and I strongly disagree.

The HRC supporters don't offend me. A few who were always irritating, before the primary season, are still irritating. Others, while I disagree with their support of HRC, are just as reasonable as the rest of DU.

Frankly, there are now more Obama supporters downgrading the quality of discussion. Partly because they are the majority, and partly because of the tendency for the majority to bully the minority.

You know: those who can't handle any criticism of his holiness, and who rush to attack at the slightest sign that any potential voter might actually disagree with him on an issue.

That's not all Obama supporters, of course. Most are sincere, thoughtful people. There are just more of BOTH for Obama: conscientious supporters and bullies.

[Catherine Vincent]

42. Word!

[question everything]

46. Well said. What I don't understand is, first, how can anyone

be interested in participating in a political forum and "ignore" what the other side is saying? Doing so will just surprise them come election day.

Second - is anyone forcing anyone to read every single post? Most of us first view the subject lines and then decide whether we want to open that thread. And once we open it, is anyone forcing anyone to read every single post?

One can "ignore" posts without using the ignore function. "Group think" and laziness.

[donheld]

36. I went nearly 4 years without ignoring anyone

Some of the rabid Hillary people made it necessary.
It's now a good friend.

[Catherine Vincent]

37. "Hillary supporters have fucked up DU so badly .."

If this isn't the pot calling the kettle black, I don't know what is. :eyes:

[SoCalDem]

39. I've been here since '01 and only started using it ..

Too bad it has to be that way, but it definitely is worth it :)

[Zachstar]

40. It is almost impossible to tolerate this forum without the ignore function.

However, Before you ignore, If their post breaks the rules please hit the ignore button before you hit the ignore button. The mods have done a great job banning trolls no matter how big they are.

[Kber]

43. Honestly, I've resisted too

and I generally only have one or two people on at any one time.

My personal standard - silly, divisive arguments not backed up by facts, links or reasoned arguments.

Diss my candidate all you want and I'll genuinely want to see what you are saying.

"Shit and Run", as another poster put it so eloquently, or post things that are pure stupid, and I can read that on the message boards of the NY Post or Fox - I don't look to DU for that kinda shit.

That said, really, it's only two or three people - far fewer than you Fox average, so we aren't doing all that bad, all in all. :))

[Two Americas]

44. what is really threatened?

Could it be that there is something about being an Obama fan that makes people extremely intolerant of any criticism, no matter how mild? The outrage that Obama supporters express about the Clinton supporters is way out of proportion to the provocation and bears little resemblance to objective reality.

I think it is people's illusions that are threatened by criticism. That may feel to them as though they are being bashed and attacked, but that merely illustrates that they have identified with a candidate in an extreme way, so much so that they can't tell the difference between being attacked or merely having their fantasy threatened.

The idolization and hero worship around Senator Obama is far beyond anything I have ever seen, and that includes the Kennedy brothers. I think that is making people hyper-sensitive to any rational criticism of the candidate or the campaign, and leading them to see it as something that it is not.

[crankychatter]

45. It looks like "ignored" had a thing or two to say about this

I see ignored people

they don't know that they're ignored

[my3boyz]

47. Use it! It makes it so much nicer in here! nt

[knixphan]

48. lol - recent discovery for me too.