DU is a truly great news aggregator, with fantastic navigation and easy interface.

[librechik]

That is all.

Personally, I try not to even look at the names of the people I'm "talking" to. I don't know who so-and-so is who left. It's an anonymous forum.

To all our merry comrades who drift away: Good luck and have fun!

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. That's the part of DU that threw me most when I first got here.

I was used to Daily Kos, where more emphasis is placed upon original postings or at least more analysis of linked posts. I was rather flummoxed especially that op titles were also directly from linked sources, and that they didn't necessarily reflect the view of the person making the post.

[Laelth]

5. Quite true. DU is an excellent news aggregator.

What I like about it is that I get intelligent, liberal commentary following the news.

ymmv

-Laelth

[RobertEarl]

2. Too many get personal

Like with the recent Obama threads. If you don't follow the crowd and worship Obama, you are deemed a bad person.

It's authoritarianism with a great following which uses personal attacks to shut down any discussion which makes the authoritarians uncomfortable.

Yee shall know them by their posts.

[Egnever]

3. Calling people Authoritarians isn't getting personal?

Take the log out of your own eye would be my first reaction.

[RobertEarl]

10. That is ridiculous

Especially since you are the one getting personal.

I was speaking in general terms. If it personally offended you that is your personal problem. If you wish to deny that authoritarians exist on DU we can have that discussion.

[msanthrope]

15. You've proved his point. nt

[treestar]

17. Simply not true

Strangely for DU, Obama's supporters are in more of a defense position. You are stating a falsehood. It's the word "worship" that is insulting and making it personal. I don't worship Obama. I support him.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. This ^ ^ ^ ^

[Gothmog]

4. I come to DU for information also

[wyldwolf]

6. not only that - it has a great beat... and you can dance to it.

[RKP5637]

7. LOL!

[NYC_SKP]

8. And it had the best looking and sexiest moderators anywhere, when it had moderators.

And most of 'em smelled good, too!

They know who they are!

[librechik]

9. It's the Dance of a Thousand Verbal Lances

[bob4460]

11. I have been here for years just reading headlines

That is why I have such a low post count,usually when I have a thought some one has already said it.so I just read I have been here 9 years and i had a older nic and lost the email address so i made a new nick

[IDemo]

12. If Earl G. and Skinner aren't licensing the software, they should consider it

Unless would-be licensees contain the words 'freedom', 'patriot' or 'conservative'. They can just continue using Usenet!

[shireen]

13. DU infrastructure is excellent

The admins have created an impressive user-friendly discussion board that would do very well in a commercial setting. When we looked into forum software at work, I was trying to find software that emulated what Skinner, EarlG, and Elad had created. I could not find anything as well-constructed and managed as DU. I even forwarded the DU link to several people and said, this is what we need.

The admins could be rich. Instead, they're here dealing with us. LOL!

[KT2000]

14. DU is great!

It is the best run site I have dealt with - fast, organized, and very thorough in its features. When posters are treated badly there is the alert/jury system and the ignore button.
If there is a breaking story, there are several links posted so one can get a good idea of what is going on.
It is great to see reactions to issues from like-minded people as in my community, I would have to fill up the gas tank to find such people.

[msongs]

16. it is a good place for LBN when it is actually N lol nt