Hey Aldar, if you want to message people, how about using the PM function?

Voted to leave.

than dog whistling from those who think they own the place. "Hey everyone! Look at this person who disagrees with you! Let's throw rocks at him!"

That behavior is for cowards who can't articulate a coherent argument.

Candidly, I wish this were the kind of forum culture in which my OP AND the one to which it refers were hidden.

But it's not.

and do something to eliminate the sock puppets.

The only rule that gets reliably enforced is the one against commercial spam.

https://www.discussionist.com/?com=termsofservice

I'm as annoyed by sock accounts as you are, but that problem is not within my scope.

b) No. Our job as jurors is to enforce the TOS.

And if they want to rid the board of them, they themselves have the power to do so.

So far, folks here haven't taken that step to eliminate all sock accounts.

But the ability to do so is certainly there.

There are no admins.

The owners do not give a flying fuck about this place.

There is just the multiple account, righty sock jury army.

Some of the most obnoxious and nasty right wing posters here have a 100% jury duty rating.

What does that tell you?

We should be safe from the trolls for ten minutes or so while they go pleasure themselves.

Hey, trolls! You hurt me *real bad*!

Fifteen minutes.

...and odds are the majority of the BS postings come from sock puppet accts. Should be easy for the webmasters to see which accts are originate from the same IP addresses...and ban them all.

If they say posters can't plant their racist and bigoted flags here, I'm okay with that. In fact, I prefer it.

Those with that motivation should post elsewhere.

That's *got* to count for something.

... no, i'm right... You have it exactly backwards, in addition to my 10 + years of donations to DU, he sold my eyeballs and the words I wrote.

but I must admit, I have a difficult time understanding the left sometimes.

I thought dog whistle meant racist. I thought it was code for a racist term.

It appears you are using it in a different way, would you be kind enough to explain.

It could be used in many ways.

In a feminist discussion board "Hey gals, did you see the guy in this thread trying to mansplain to me?"
In a racist discussion board "Hey guys come check out all the diversity on display!"
In a conservative discussion board "Hey Morning Star and Marmot84, If this place is a cesspool and we make you sick, why do you hang around and keep posting? There is freedom of association in this country. Why are you still here?"
In a clintonista discussion board: "Why are you and your BernieBro peers here? Your guy isn't even a democrat."

All are dogwhistles intended to get the team's attention.

Several fragile Canadin teenagers have killed themselves in similar circumstances in the past few years. In Canada we have changed the Criminal Code to outlaw this type of behaviour. And no, we infringe on no-one's freedom of speech. The deaths of Andrea Bain and Rataiah Parsons were a wake-up call. Shouting "fire" in a crowded theater is not "freedom of speech" either.

I do not HAVE "low self-esteem", or "mental" or "emotional" stuff, but some do. These rules exist for their protection. If some goofs in a public-access place like this push some poor soul over the edge, you think they're going to tell you about it before they swallow mommy's sleeping pills? This is why we have criminalized this behaviour in Canada.

Personal information is a vector for attack that some see as an invitation.

you do not make the rules

I'm a do-gooder like that - helping the less fortunate.

and beyond that F.O.

Whether it’s a ruse or a psychological issue the victim game is never not hilarious🤣

And all nudge-nudge, wink-wink and cutesy- poo about it.

I'm just worried they'll do this to the wrong person sometime, someone fragile or with depression or nervous etc. condition. This kind of behaviour leads to tragedy.

AND YEAH, I KNOW THE BUTCHIES OF THE WORLD WILL ALL SAY, "blow me, fruity snowcake", BUT THERE ARE RULES OF DECORUM FOR A REASON.

👂🏻

cry me a river..........
someone call the whaaambulance

Fighting back "lends myself" to JACK SHIT!

jumping up on the soap box whining about it is how these people rise to stardom amongst their peers.

It usually turns into one big cry fest and then the cry bullies are turned loose to retaliate.

All downhill from there. Have had a few worthwhile chats here with long-suffering worthwhile people despite the assclowns. Why do a few always stop us from having nice things?

They openly laugh at Mr. Skinner, at the same time as they steal his site all for themselves, and cheat the rest of us.

Poor me poor me❄️ It’s not a few and your nice things are regarded as shit by those that matter. My suggestion is you wipe the sand out of that bleeding gash, slam a rag in it and discard the Unicorn and Rainbows for reality.

These people in general. This is Lord of the Flies. For real.

kinda like that?

You just did what you're crying/whining about. Will you next threaten to get your antifa and pink pussy hat pals together and beat him up from the safety of your basement chair. You promote violence against those with different views and then whine like a spoiled Brat -- you're laughably cute punkin.

Cowardice, Cowardice everywhere -- amirite LiberalToughGuy?

I stand for simple human decency and decorum, virtues which have sadly been lost in this digital world. I fight for the rights of the Users.

I'm probably more libertarian than anyone on this site, with the possible exception of my well-esteemed acquaintance TM99. She has explained to you the libertarian roots of Liberal philosophy far better than I ever could, and I quite literally wrote the book (How to Talk to a Conservative, Liberal Party of Canada, March 1986).

It's a shame that an arrogant entitled few spoil this place for the rest of you. I have nothing invested here. I don' t care if I post here or not, one way or the other. I'm worried about the vulnerable.

The rules don't exist for you and me. The rules exist for them. Over the past three years, we have lost several vulnerable teenagers in Canada. In Canada, what goes on here would be against the law.

The Bible says whatsoever you may do to the least of my brethren you do to Me. These are the words of the Lord.

do you think I was responding to you? What the fuck does your reply have to do with what I wrote?

Hint punkin: not every post in a thread is directed at you -- that seems to be something you haven't quite figured out yet. Good God, gather your thoughts, follow the thread and knock off posting random words, letters and phrases. You make G4A seem somewhat coherent.

Are you and Liberal(not so tough)Guy the same person?

Liberalguy and I do not see eye to eye on American politics, as a matter of fact. He was on DU for over 14 years. Since he is American and I am not, I stay out of it. I was only going to get involved last year because my cousin in Buffalo is 84 years old now, and I wanted to do something nice for Joe. I joined two Democratic sites to test the waters, Democratic Underground and Jack Pine Radicals. I knew nothing of the ins and outs, the tricks of the trade of social media.

Boy did I get an education. Got my ass handed to me, as a matter of fact. I licked my wounds (actually, gave you no further thought) for over fourteen months until now. Well, it would be quite a trick to write a book about social media without actually doing it (although it doesn't seem to have stopped others who seem to know even less than I).

then it would behoove you to understand how your subject works. You responded to me -- not everyone. If you want to respond to everyone then you'd get more audience if you responded to the OP -- amirite?