Can anyone sell me on Discussionist? Anyone at all?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

When it first started, I went there for about two minutes to look at it. Didn't catch my interest.

As people continued to talk about it, yesterday I figured I'd have a second look.

So I went. I looked it over for about two minutes.

Still no interest.

Am I missing something here?

[onehandle]

1. Not me. It's like The Lounge, plus trolls.

Meh.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. But is there Chuggo?

The Lounge isn't the Lounge for me without Chuggo.

[hlthe2b]

2. No. Too much anger among conservs

Besides their inability to counter with anything but talking points, they just drip vitriol.

[TwilightGardener]

3. I glance at it every day, but haven't made the leap.

[tenderfoot]

4. No. It's a cesspool.

You're not missing a thing.

[Autumn]

5. You either like it or you don't. I like the format

and I like that there are no hosts and the admins seem to do a little more interacting over there.

[Capt. Obvious]

7. It's what you make of it

You can completely control your environment there.

[slingsam]

8. Sell You? Hell, I can't even get on there

That's inspite of several appeals by e-mail to the powers that be......

I keep being told I'll get a confirming e-mail that never arrives.

I thought this appeal might help.....

[leftyohiolib]

12. perhaps youre emails are being scrubbed by your spam filter

[steve2470]

23. go to Ask the Administrators subforum

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1259

Address your problem to Skinner, the site owner.

[Logical]

26. Same thing happened to me, I put it on admin forum and they fixed it.

[slingsam]

30. Thanks, that worked

Finally...but only early this week.

But....I'm on there finally...and problem solved.

[NuclearDem]

9. Great ipecac substitute.

[Whisp]

13. lol. true.

[quinnox]

10. It seems like some duers hate the place

and even compare it to hate sites like stormfront. Which in my opinion is nonsense.

I think it just makes some duers who have rigid, go team like mindsets, very uncomfortable that they can't control the conversation or the membership over there, that's my take.

[Autumn]

15. I think that's right. It's nice in that respect. No hosts locking OPs,

every jury I have served on has been a leave, people want to talk with no censorship unless it's really out of line.

[hlthe2b]

22. THat may be overblown, but there is a lot more overt racism on display there & misogyny & homophobia

[Union Scribe]

28. but they apparently don't mind lurking

Because they can tell you every outrageous thing posted there

[GeorgeGist]

11. The format and the people ...

of DU are much more interesting.

[rrneck]

14. It's just a different demographis with different points of view. nt

[Ikonoklast]

19. Talking points based upon wingnut think-tank propaganda doesn't constitute a 'point-of-view'.

There is no reason discussing anything with a person whose reality is based on fiction.

[HughBeaumont]

16. I can't . . . .

. . . but others might have a higher tolerance for Dunning-Krugertarian defense of failed and discredited 1%er friendly policies, deflection, projection, victim-blaming, victim-denying, logical fallacies, red-baiting, blatant sexism and insufferable assholery than I do.

I have yet to read a cogent statement, argument or rebuttal from any of Discussionist's wingdings. Then again, one could argue that debating failure is giving failure more of a platform than it needs to have.

[hlthe2b]

20. You've captured all the "high"lights, that's for sure.... That's Discussionist in a nutshell.

I just can't get past the continuous angry tone over there on so many threads. As though continued hammering of talking points, along with anti-Democrat accusations will somehow win arguments. It is like the most vitriolic gungeon posters were allowed to take over in terms of tone., but with added racism, misogyny and extreme ignorance thrown in.

[PowerToThePeople]

17. Imo, it is more honest

You get what you are sold, all views welcome to post. Here, we are supposed to be a Democratic site, but in recent years it has morphed into "Democratic Party" site regardless of whether the party or it's members even hold traditional democratic (left leaning) values.

Discussioist does need more members, as the traffic level is not as high over there. This should improve with time.

[pipi_k]

18. As a couple of people

above me have stated, it's what you make of it.

Actually it started out somewhat calmly. People were displaying better manners than they do here.

Of course, there will be the occasional 15 year old boy mentality, but for the most part, people have tried to be civil...amazing given the disparity of opinions.


In the last few days, though, it seems that things have gotten quite rude.

and it's not just rudeness from the other side.

Just last night I saw some obnoxiously rude remarks made by either a present, or former, DUer woefully lacking in basic self-control.

Things aren't always a bed of roses here, as you no doubt well know. And while some of the trouble over there has come from the other side, it's really embarrassing to see a lot of it also come from THIS side. People working out their anger issues. If they didn't care about being banned from DU, they're doubly not going to care about being banned for acting like jackasses at Discussionist.

So...no.

There's nothing I can say to sell Discussionist to anyone who thinks it sucks, and quite frankly, I wouldn't even waste my time.

[hlthe2b]

21. I agree the tone has gotten worse and that is a major change from its initiation & that both sides

are guilty of that escalation

I will continue to occasionally check in to see if that changes. But, I try hard in real life to avoid toxic, perpetually angry personalities and I surely don't intend to engage in it online.

[Gothmog]

24. I enjoy playing with the conservatives on that board

They are not very bright and it is fun to poke holes in their claims. Most of the time, the conservatives just repeat talking points from Fox News without checking or caring about the facts. When challenged about these claims, the conservatives really do not know what to do other than name call.

[KG]

25. if I wanted to debate conservatives I could do that right here...

[Logical]

27. If you do not like confrontation it is not for you. nt

[Union Scribe]

29. why does anyone need to sell you?

If someone wants to post there do it. If they don't, don't. All the drama surrounding people here posting about if they'll post there is kind of silly.