At the risk of being controversial...I LIKE the variety of posts on DU.
Just wanted to speak up out of gratitude for this board and those running it.
I've seen a lot of different online forums since the 1980s, and this is a great one.
I don't find every post or every type of post interesting, on any given day, but I don't expect to, and it doesn't bother me that other people want to post them and respond to them. No one's forcing me to read them. And I've also found that my interests and the types of posts I like to read can change over time.
DU has survived as a message board community for two decades, despite all the competition from Facebook and Twitter.
That's remarkable. A lot of message boards didn't survive that competition.
It's also the result of DUers in general being pretty damn tolerant of - and supportive of - one another.
For which we should be grateful, IMHO.
This board is never going to be ONLY the posts that any one of us is looking for. That's impossible in a forum of any size.
It's never going to be only the information you want, in only the formats and sizes you want, at any particular moment.
It's a grand online buffet of news, opinion, personal experiences and requests of all types, humor and venting, and shared interests in almost any subject you can think of.
We can all take what we want from it. We don't have to agree on what's best.
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We also have the best emojis ever. 
I don’t have very much of a social life anymore but I definitely feel like I’m among friends when I come here. I am so grateful, thank you
The malicious intruders are quickly banned and most DUers never see their icky RW stuff. 
I know because I did a stint last year on MIRT (Malicious Intruder Removal Team) and finally learned what goes on behind the scenes. Right-wing crazies are always trying to post their nasty crap here, but the diligent members of MIRT are amazing, quashing them and kicking them out. The MIRT membership rotates every 3 months or so, which allows a break for these hard-working volunteers and also gives others a chance to learn the procedures.
But members can help out in lots of other ways. Here's a suggestion to newer members: Agree to be on a jury
If you are on a jury you are given the opportunity to decide whether another person's post is worthy of DU (in other words, it fits our Forum Rules, or ToS) or not. Each DU jury is a randomly-selected group that decides whether someone's post should be hidden. Once you've been on jury duty for a few situations, you get a better feel for what is acceptable and what is unacceptable in our group.
Here's how to volunteer for Jury Duty:
Go to the "My Account" page and where they ask if you're "willingness to serve on juries" - you click on "Willing."
Screenshot (here's how mine looks):
If you are "Willing" then sooner or later you'll be invited to join a Jury. Every jury only takes maybe 5 minutes to read over the material and vote. It's a piece of cake but it's also very important for increasing our understanding in how all of this works.
The result is that DU will be BETTER for all of us.
Anyone who has been active on DU for more than a year should give it a try.
Newer members can also benefit, because I think this is one of the reasons DU is such a great place.
straight!
button & an Ignore List so those like me can suit it more to their Liking.
no videos, no tweets, no criticism of anything Dems do...
sheesh, take some responsibility for your experience! lots of options, including taking a break from the site if video posts are your biggest problem! 
Good post, and I agree.
I look at DU as an excellent information portal, an introduction to a panoply of ideas, and a supportive community. I don’t post much of a personal nature, but I feel the positive vibes and enjoy being a part of this colloquy of knuckleheads.
And after every improvement, I figured it couldn't possibly get better!
Is it really necessary to post what your cat is doing every hour of the day?
If you're so enamored with your cat start your own cat blog, and update it every few minutes with the newest position your cat has taken.
There are several cat lovers on DU who believe this is their own private cat blog. I've never seen them post about anything else, join in any conversation about obscure things like.......Democrats, world events, politics etc. I guess they find those subjects too mundane. They're certainly not as interesting as their cat rolling over onto it's back! 
That's my gripe about the one thing that irritates me on DU, and I'm sticking to it. Have a wonderful day. 😊
on my Android phone. I can select those options, but they still show up. 
I've selected the "mobile" option, which doesn't seem to do what it's supposed to.
On my desktop computer I've selected those options and they work wonderfully.
I'm not in the house that much so I do most of my reading and posting on my phone. The same options don't work on my phone, for some reason. It's not that big of a deal. I just ignore the "guess what my cat just did" posts and read the important stuff.
I can also understand some people's need for constant contact with their animals. The part I question is others who actually think what someone else's cat is doing, is interesting?
Hey, it takes all types of people to make the world go around, I guess.
I know there's no cat (or anyone or anything) watching me from above.
But you enjoy your imaginary "ceiling cat".
to see more cats? 
For example:
There's something for everyone here!
and later for the rest. 
to make sure the whiners see it 