Anyone clue me in to what spawned the woo threads?

[joshcryer]

[Pretzel_Warrior]

1. someone said their favorite singer was from the Woo Tang Clan

and that's when the fight broke out. lol. actually, I have no idea what prompted this.

[joshcryer]

2. Oh man that would've been priceless.

I guess I'm off to the second and third pages to try to narrow it down.

[Berlum]

19. + 1

[joshcryer]

3. Think I found it!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4281239

[Ms. Toad]

12. That was actually a response

to other threads in which charges of "woo" were being thrown about indiscriminately - for example:

http://election.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4183692

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4271323

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4271774

It has been a pretty steady drumbeat.

[joshcryer]

14. Ahh, thank you Ms. Toad.

So the response was to the regular topics and it finally came to a head? I only log in once a day and I miss all the nuance of DU discussion.

[Ms. Toad]

15. It seems to have been brewing closer to a boil than recently. n/t

[Berlum]

20. The War of All Against All

[Katashi_itto]

28. Just another excuse for people to be at each others throats. And they think themselves to be

progressive here

[Union Scribe]

4. Dunno but it's at least novel.

I've seen GD flareups over a bunch of things, but this is fresh to me

[joshcryer]

6. Same here.

That's why I asked, but I think I found the thread that started it all.

[pecwae]

23. I'm actually enjoying this one.

Gender wars, Olive Garden, not so much.

[RC]

32. +100

It also helped that the usual suspects seemed to be absent this weekend. Something about overtime, I think.

[BarackTheVote]

7. Didn't it start with a thread about the steam plume at Fukushima? nt

[The Midway Rebel]

8. I think it started with this thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024262028

Some epic DU stuff there.

[joshcryer]

9. Oh gosh I remember that thread.

If it started there it's a slow burn to be sure.

[JNelson6563]

10. Ok, all DU wars start the same way...

Someone starts a thread about a topic. People weigh in with their opinions. Thread gets bigger. Many think their comment is way to brilliant and valuable to simply add to a long thread so they start their own. Next thing you know there are 50 posts on the same topic cluttering up GD.

Plays out the same every single time. No matter the topic. I always avoid these wars because throughout it is the same people saying the same things. *yawn*

Julie

[TwilightGardener]

11. It's Woo Week on the Discovery Channel.

After Shark Week, they ran out of good ideas.

[Luminous Animal]

13. Sid Dithers. He finally made a post of more that seven words. One of which was woo.

Doing such threw DU off its axis.

[joshcryer]

16. Heh.

[1000words]

17. In homage to (the not so great) Sid Dithers:

[Skittles]

18. sWOOning

[pecwae]

25. OMG!

OK, I just LOL'd!

[davidpdx]

21. I don't know but it's fucking irritating

I never trash threads, but today I'm trashing all the woo threads...except yours.

[joshcryer]

22. Ha, thanks.

I am half wanting to trash "woo" myself. I think you can trash by keyword, not sure how though.

It's a phase though, DU will move on.

[davidpdx]

24. I don't know how many threads I trashed

maybe 8-10. When people obsess about a subject so much it really makes me wonder if they shouldn't seek help.

[Greybnk48]

33. My sentiments exactly.

It's not only fucking irritating, it's fucking stupid, and I don't view this site as stupid. Things get playful here at times but never dumb, so are repug trolls doing this? STOP!

[customerserviceguy]

26. If you're looking for a specific thread

then others above have made suggestions, but my theory is that we're restless right now, and like the Gender Wars before them, the Woo Wars are just another way to use each other as sparring partners. I suppose that disrupters find it easy to put a burr under some individuals' saddles, and then these things just take off.

I sure hope that in no time, we'll be back to fighting Republicons instead of each other again.

[joshcryer]

30. I don't mind sparring.

But I've been at DU for 12 years. Woo has almost universally been frowned upon. The very idea, the very concept, that some of the more prolific DUers support "woo" is beyond me. It's really shocking. Either I've been out of the loop or "woo supporters" are joining a cause that DU hasn't historically supported. I think it may in fact just be an "argue to argue" type of thing, so I shouldn't keep kicking this thread.

It just went under my radar these past few weeks and put me off guard.

[customerserviceguy]

35. The Great Recession

has changed the new normal for many people, unfortuately. When people feel they can afford science, they go for it, when they feel they cannot, then they start looking for alternatives. Placebo effect means that a good many of them will attribute their renewed sense of well-being to the woo, and they start wondering why they trusted expensive science in the first place.

I hope all of us, left, right and mushy middle come back to science, but hard times reinforce superstitious beliefs.

[etherealtruth]

36. I have been here 9 years

"Woo has almost universally been frowned upon. " ... it WAS frowned upon and not tolerated. This is a new DU where it is neither frowned upon and is supported.

Whether this is good or bad is open to interpretation.

[JDPriestly]

27. DUers are just trying to annoy Agent Mike. It's a conspiracy to occupy the internet in protest

against the NSA snooping. Lots of posts about nothing. Uses up bandwidth. (Dear Agent Mike, I'm kidding. Happy New Year.)

[JoePhilly]

29. My numerologist says full moon caused it.

Or too much spicy food on New Year's Eve.

[Buns_of_Fire]

31. Curly tried to warn us about the dangers of too much woo...

[Lizzie Poppet]

34. I blame Daleks. Call Doctor Woo!