Does anybody remember when "30 strikes and you're out" was instituted during last primaries?

[LoZoccolo]

[jkshaw]

1. 30?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I Think It Had To Do With Thirty Warnings

Was it thirty deleted posts or actual warning?

I've had deleted posts but never actual warnings...

[LoZoccolo]

5. Thirty deleted posts, but each one would give you a warning.

If you got five warnings you'd be suspended for some time, but I don't think it was more than 1-3 days.

There were special primary rules too.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Now I Remember

I think I got one warning and you couldn't log in to you read the rules...

The problem is so many original titles are pure flamebait...

I'll bet there's a dozen on the page right now...

[paulk]

3. I remember

I thought it was a good idea.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. How Did It Work?

Thirty actual warnings


or thirty deleted messages?

[paulk]

10. I don't remember the exact mechanism, to be honest

it wasn't real punative, but it did help cut down of some of the over the top stuff.

DU is a business, after all, and I suppose the admin didn't want to run of all it's customers.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

7. Maybe I've just become a nervous wreck in the interim, but I recall 2004 as being

pretty high-minded. There were some self-righteous Deaniacs and some Dean-assassination, and a big jovial Clark contingent, and painfully sincere Edwards folks but it seemed like a student council election to me... just gainsaying the other guy, but with no sense of schism. I frequently felt vicarious pride at the fighting spirit.

The greater stakes were always in view. I can't imagine many folks in 2004 ever suggested one ought not to vote against Bush.

Today, I get the sense that a lot of people do not really feel the implications of a republican win in 2008. I fear that after seven long years that many right-thinking folks have become dependent on a republican president as a constant defining term in their moral sensibilities. If you were 16 in 2000 it's been quite a period to begin defining one's self. The fervor for perfection of worship over winning is like the way no religion expects to actually defeat the devil.

[jmp]

8. I'm more worried about BECOMING the devil. (nm)

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[LoZoccolo]

9. Lame. n/t