pssst... (shhhhhhhhh) Is this place crawling with trolls...

[4_Legs_Good]

or have we been having an advertising blitz? There are a tremendous amount of people with absurdly low counts posting all over. What gives? I'm happy to have new people, but I'm really noticing all the new posters.

david

[shraby]

1. Welcome them until they give you reason to

report them. They might actually be friendlies.

[RaleighNCDUer]

35. We all had low counts at one time --

relatively speaking, I still do.

[JuniorPlankton]

2. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt

Unless they post really offensive stuff

[dave123williams]

3. Well, if they're listening....

<!-- begin whispering -->

Bush is going to get his tail waxed in about ten days.

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[xultar]

4. I've invited a couple of friends to the site, some may be Newbies

so play nice.

[4_Legs_Good]

19. I certainly will play nice... Just curious

Everyone seems to be on the up and up, well mostly.

I'm just surprised at the large numbers of new comers.

Welcome one, welcome all!

david

[helnwhls]

5. :-)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2521227

[spatlese]

6. I'm new...

but have been reading for a long time...

/me smashes trolls with big shovels

:)

[Alleycat]

7. You old timers are so paranoid

I have a low post number but I am not a troll!!!

[DontTreadOnMe]

9. me too...

I have a low post number, but have been here over a year...

[kick-ass-bob]

11. HA! LIAR! You have no avatar!!

j/k

Welcome!!

[Alleycat]

18. cause I haven't figured out how to do that yet

I may be slow but I'm no stinkin' troll ;)

[kick-ass-bob]

26. :-)

Go to Options-Edit your profile.

You can choose from a whole host of them there - or eventually make your own...

[Alleycat]

31. Thanks

I should of asked earlier but I was trying to up my post so I won't be accused of being a troll. Actually it took me a few weeks to realize what an avator was!!!

[tigereye]

40. no one should be accusing anyone just cuz their count

is low. We should be happy since all the new Dems are here!

welcome to all of you new folks. :hi:

[Alleycat]

36. Just got one

I thought I do the holiday motif!! Thanks for the help

[qnr]

37. I like doing the

"What the heck is that thing he's using for an avatar?" motif.

[ND_Democrat]

12. I'm also a long time reader and new poster

I assure you I want Kerry to win probably more than he does.

[knowbody0]

8. if so, welcome them.

no doubt our intelligent insights will sway them. most all freepers are just brainwashed

[4_Legs_Good]

14. Hee hee

good point!

david

[PleadTheFirst]

10. I'm one of those newbies.

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I've been a long-time DU lurker who only recently registered and got involved. The extremely charged election season is very likely making lurkers like myself get involved more.

[DontTreadOnMe]

13. for those of us with low post numbers...

start posting pics of your cats... that will raise your numbers!

[Wat_Tyler]

22. No.

Only freepers post pictures of cats. That's a fact!

[tigereye]

43. don't listen to him

he's a wise guy.... And he keeps changing his incarnations! ;)

hey Wat.

[4_Legs_Good]

24. Yup, that always works!

Welcome to DU!

david

[whodiedandmadeUSgod]

30. %*#! I don't own a cat maybe I am a troll!

I do have a Boston Terrior will that work?

[tigereye]

41. again, welcome to you guys!

It is a lot of fun here and very informative.

[southernlad]

15. I come in peace...

honest, I vote Democrat. I think that Bush is evil and Kerry is great and Clinton was fabulous and Bush Sr was an idiot. Do not hate on me.

"He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Democrat. Hath not a Democrat eyes? hath not a Democrat hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Democrat wrong a Democrat, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Democrat wrong a Democrat, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction."

[Bobbie47]

16. me too!!!

been lurking a long time

[flowomo]

17. Clever trolls know to run up their post count before going into action....

me, I posted "Red Sox win!!!!!!!" 1,365 times in one night. Now you can't see I'm a troll.....

[4_Legs_Good]

21. Clever strategy!

:)

david

[ogradda]

46. was that you

that made me hide 1365 baseball threads the other nite?!

[flowomo]

47. I swear I didn't START a single one.... there were too many to reply to!

:)

[Bossy Monkey]

20. Lots of great new DUers. If you see a troll, alert on them n/t

[jdots]

23. I'm sorry i was late okay my dog ate my home work

i would have been here day the site opened, i left an art site that got destroyed by some nit witt republicans who managed to offend everyone , plus one guy who calls everyone a nazi and has done more harm to the left than Rove.

[icymist]

25. Where would the DU be if it weren't for spreading the truth?

Of course we're going to have new people posting....this is the end of a tough election year. We all just have to put up with the occasional freeper troll 'cause we're growing! Otherwise, we'd just be an exclusive club preaching to the converted!

I say, Welcome newbies!:bounce:

[whodiedandmadeUSgod]

27. No troll here!

Even though I have a low post count, I'm an avid DUer! Just a little shy!

[4_Legs_Good]

28. Fantastic!

I used to post rarely myself! I've been accused of being a troll once or twice even after I hit 1,000 posts!

We're glad to have you.

david

[Shoeempress]

29. With election season upon us, it's finally easier to see who is who

via the "colors" they wear or have on the car. Makes it easier to talk to folks, and spread the word. Have been telling everyone at K/E HQ about DU and encouraging them to get on.

[MsUnderstood]

32. Trolls? I love trolls!

Consider this a blanket welcome to all newbies posting her and all oldies posting newly and all trolls creating accounts just to poke fun at us!

[Mabus]

33. I'm not a troll either

I signed up in 2000. I moved later that year, lost my old password and e-mail account. I've read off and on for a couple of years and then reregistered in 2002. Then I got busy and checked in every so often. Last month a friend reminded me of DU and I've come back. I started posting again thanks to Jon Stewart.

[eataTREE]

34. Listen, sonny boy...

I may be new to DU, but I was slaying Internet trolls when you were still wondering what the AOL floppy in your junk mail was for. :evilgrin:

[RaleighNCDUer]

38. What are they for?

[gpandas]

39. not your first rodeo, eh tree? n/t

[NoodleBoy]

42. I've been hanging around for a while, not posting much

until, of course, I've had school shit to do and I need something to procrastinate with.

[ScreamingMeemie]

44. There is no such thing as an "absurdly low post count". Only absurd people

...and some of them have really high post counts. :hi:

[Wat_Tyler]

48. But let's leave Zomby out of this.

:evilgrin:

[ScreamingMeemie]

49. Heh. You're the one who named names.....

;) :hi:

[tjwash]

45. Come on now, we all had low post counts once. nt