there are so many new people on this site. where have you heard of du

[seabeyond]

some people have issue with low count cause they associate it with freepers. i am not and even if a person is a freeper, i dont care. not why i am posting. but in this room, i have just seen so many new people. i am wondering if du address was posted somewhere or something to make people aware of this site.

just curious all.

[kentuck]

1. A couple of days ago...

I was googlin for Democrats under ground and, by mistake, stumbled upon this site. I think there's some real cool people here.

[stop the bleeding]

6. LOL

:rofl:

[Kittycat]

12. ..

:spray:

[bhikkhu]

50. 1000 posts already - Congrats and welcome!

[11 Bravo]

63. Huh? The poster to whom you responded has been here for seven years and is just shy of 42,000 posts.

Welcome?

:shrug:

[seabeyond]

64. bah hahahahah. ya. damn, i have some catchin up to do with him n/t

[Exilednight]

2. I hang out on other message boards, like MSNBC and I use to help run a now defunk progressive board.

I've known of the DU for a while, but never bothered to join until Jan of last year. I let the account sit dormant for a while until my old message board finally went completely offline.

[Maddy McCall]

What was the name of your old message board?

[Exilednight]

15. Underground Scribe, I'm a fan of Dostoevsky and absurdist literature.

[Maddy McCall]

17. Well, I'm pretty sure I never visited that site.

Anyway, welcome to DU. :hi:

[FARAFIELD]

3. I know the reason

its so people from both sides (Obama and Hillary) could post their memes' I was for Edwards and now for Obama, but I think any rational person that has been here a while can see that.

[Exilednight]

8. I'm fairly new to this site, but I've been around message boards long enough.....

to know that there are plenty of regulars with multiple ID's that they hide behind.

I always find it a shame that people have to create new identities to vent their frustrations and show their true character. This is one of the reasons I am so fed up with the MSNBC boards. It's filled with people from both sides that dual personalities, and the freepers run wild with racial slurs and MSNBC does nothing about it.

[seabeyond]

24. just not something i think about doing. inherently dishonest and

well... wussy, lol lol. i dont think about that one.

[SoCalDem]

57. Having been a MOD more than a few tmes, I can assure you that

there are ways to ferret out the multiples, and it's done regularly..and they all get shut down..

welcome :hi:

[qnr]

4. Address pinned on their shirts

upon release from the mental hospital.

[seabeyond]

25. lol.... that would only be if they are looking for a revolving door syndrome n/t

[joshcryer]

5. I found this site after the Bush v Gore fiasco.

Lurked for years then joined.

Most of my post count is due to election season squabbling.

Truth to power!

[TomInTib]

7. I found www.democraticunderground.com ....

written on the wall in a phone booth in Alpine, Texas.

Thought I would check it out.

Been here ever since.

[kentuck]

9. There's a song in there somewhere, Tom..

:-)

[TomInTib]

13. There is a song in everything, kentuck...

They're just out there, stumbling down the sidewalk and knocking on doors.

Sometimes we let 'em in, feed them and keep them warm.

Sometimes they just ramble on down the street until someone else lets them in.

I am just knocking around, tonight.

Got this thing in my head about an albino black kid I once met.

Kid named Bone, growing up in this insane fundie environment in Louisiana.

Said, "Look at me, Mister. Ain't I the whitest thang around?".

He told me that he kept his faith in the Lord, but he still slept with the light on.

I thought it fucking profound.

He was just a kid.

Tom

[lumpy]

43. Sweet

Very poetic, very nice.

[kentuck]

53. true Tom..

cool.

[seabeyond]

26. lol.... yawl are jesting so, i am not going to believe anyone anything

i really am a sucker with this kinda stuff

[TomInTib]

47. I am not kidding.

I went back to Dallas and checked it out.

Lurked around here for a couple of years before I got a new girlfriend who figured out how I could post and reply here.

She is gone, now, but DU is still here.

True story...

Tom

[seabeyond]

48. girlfriend who figured out how I could post and reply here.... lol lol llol

that is funny. well then, she was worth it. my hubby does all the computer stuff for me too so i can play.

[Maddy McCall]

19. That is hillarious.

What a cool story.

[TomInTib]

20. If you have ever been to Alpine, you would really get it.

Sometimes I think it was left there just for me.

Tom

[seabeyond]

27. lol lol what, a place they were camouflage clothes and rifle racks? n/t

[ensho]

54. Texas still has phone booths? thing of the past here - even finding

a public phone is tricky.

[TomInTib]

80. You would have to be in Alpine to understand...

That place is still inching its way into the 20th Century.

[TexasLady]

10. Last Presidential Election time

I have NO idea how I found it. I think I was messed up, you know, depressed about the Chimp.
I'll be damned if I didnt find a place that had like minds AND smart and funny as hell at times!
This place cracks me up!
Mostly it educated me..still is!

[seabeyond]

30. ya, mine was feb 2004 stepping into the race. i needed this place.

i think i was on 24 hrs for three or four days when i first found it. family thought they lost their mama

[latinolatteliberal]

11. googled some possible vp choices

a thread came up with people discussing vp choices.

[seabeyond]

31. excellent. welcome. that is how i found it, so random way n/t

[PM7nj]

14. I've been reading DU for years

I just only started posting this week though...

[Maddy McCall]

18. Welcome to the madhouse.

:toast:

[seabeyond]

32. you are far from the first i have heard lurking and just starting posts.

that is such a strange concept to me. when given the opportunity to talk, i do.... lol. couldnt sit and keep quiet if i tried, not that i would

[BalancedGoat]

16. Don't remember.

Started lurking under the screenname "Moridin" for maybe a year or so in the lead up to the 2004 primaries. No idea how I found the site originally. I forgot my password and the site completely for a few years. Stumbled across a link to the site again on Alternet.org right before the start of the primary season.

[seabeyond]

33. excellent, welcome. glad you found it again. n/t

[progressive_realist]

21. Actually it's the same people

If you don't cut off the head and stuff the mouth with holy wafers after TS'ing them, they rise from the dead the next night.

[seabeyond]

34. lol lol. hmmmmmm. i have had boards with that and it is too hard to figure it out

i dont even try with that anymore. someone wants to fool another, go for it....they giggle like they won. well.... wasnt playing. whatever

[TheDebbieDee]

22. Many are sincere newbies......

But, I don't think the $hit-stirrers are "freepers".......I think they are paid marketers in the employ of repuke organizations bent on factioning the Obama supporters and the Clinton supporters from the Democratic party.

[seabeyond]

35. i have wonder about something like that. thanks

there are just so many.

[Suzie57]

23. I've read DU almost daily for years

I found DU back in 2004. I post rarely because I read DU at work before starting time and lunch and check in during the day. I'm afraid to post from my work computer though, need the paycheck too much. We only have one computer at home and someone is usually on it and I have too much work to do anyway. I sometimes wonder if someone will see my low post count and be rude but no one ever has. I don't post anything too controversial though. I too have been suspicious of some of the more hostile threads started during these primaries. I don't believe the posters are actual democrats at all.

[pompano]

28. Low post....

count doesn't necessarily mean newbie or freeper. During the stolen inauguration of the first Bush mightmare a friend called and said he found a website with some really cool Democrats. I have been lurking since. IIRC this friend saw a banner on TV advertising DU. Eight years of Bush have been long but you guys made it bearable.

[seabeyond]

38. i think this is really interesting so many that lurked and just dont post much

beyond my ability to relate, lol lol. cant imagine not talking, lol. i have well over 27k. just different types of people. that is great. i am learning there are many more lurkers than i would have thought.

[DevonRex]

85. Was a lurker...

Mostly because almost every time I thought about saying something, I'd find that someone else had just posted what I wanted to say. Pretty hard to beat folks in here with an original thought sometimes. And it doesn't seem worth it much to just say, "yeah, what you said."
Jennifer in Colorado

[seabeyond]

88. hey jennifer in colorado, love your state. i am in panhandle tx. go to colorado a lot.

we are fast, that is for sure, but a yeah what you said has its place too

[seabeyond]

37. i am glad people arent rude cause of the count. never thought much of people who do that

i would work at hubby business every once in a while, ... i would read and not post from there too. not cause i could get in trouble, lol but i couldnt get on to post, only read. lol. but i hear ya.

[1awake]

29. Shawn Hannity told me about DU!

It's true.. back in my repub days, Hannity mentioned the site on the air. When I finally left the dark side.. I remembered. :)


LK

[pompano]

36. I was away for....

a while. Could someone pleeeeeeease tell me the joke behind "This is Hugh!!1!!" (something to that effect you see here time to time).

TIA

[seabeyond]

40. suppose to be huge and moran with an A and series for serious

just excitable rw in their misspells and we have picked them up here series!!1!! you moran

i mean when you are calling someone stupid at least spell the word right. i am sure someone will put up the picture

[UALRBSofL]

41. I knew about DU for several years

Someone from AOL told me about it. So finally I had enough of AOL freepers and came over here. This place is a much nicer place then AOL.

[seabeyond]

44. bah hahahah, ya think. lol. well, i like it but i have a tough skin.

that is great and funny that sittin in this room with prmaries, dems attacking dems. ... we are nicer. not gonna visit aol.

welcome

[seabeyond]

39. i love your post. lol. ya he would talk about this site during kerry election

i remember. didnt he have a message board. we were there too.

well, welcome and from the darkside, but then the dark isnt so awfully scary

[CampDem]

42. Thanks for asking!

I first came to DU in December 2007. I had become disgusted with the MSM political coverage and was surfing the internet. I was particularly interested in info about Chris Matthews sexist comments about Hillary. I ended up at media matters reading an article about media bias and then I followed some links that eventually brought me here. I started coming here several times a week and now I am here daily.:hi:

[seabeyond]

45. excellent. and welcome. mine was a round about way too, cant even remember

i like to get up in the morning and read while i have my first, second and third coffee. we stay at least a couple days ahead, generally weeks and months ahead of the news. my friend told me during the 2004 election, you say it, i have never heard and then not long after i will hear it on the news. how do you do it. then she married a repug and well.... we dont talk so much, lol

[Seabiscuit]

46. The vast majority of nubies

come straight from Free Republic.

I've got almost 600 of them on "ignore" by now.

[seabeyond]

49. ya think. hm... been a lot, huh. i never use ignore. i talk or dont talk

they dont bother me....

[Seabiscuit]

51. It's not that they bother me. It's that they clog the pages with their b.s. and make it

much harder to find a decent thread to read. If find putting them on "ignore" saves me a lot of time.

[leftofthedial]

52. campaign headquarters

NSA in DC

The Justice Department

The little secret room next to AT&T's switch

[Eurobabe]

55. rush, freerepublic, townhall.com, other RW bloggers

it is a coordinated bomb. :shrug:

[fadedrose]

56. I first heard of it on Mike Malloy radio

Mike and Kathy have their own board, but he mentioned that he goes to DU quite a bit or once in a while, so I looked it up and liked it.

[kaiden]

58. My post count is low, but I've been a DU member since 2003.

I was permanently logged on at work and had forgotten what my password was until Skinner was nice enough a couple of months ago to give me a password I could remember.

[seabeyond]

59. lol lol that is why i couldnt post when i was at work. i am permantly

logged on here at home.

[SunsetDreams]

60. Thanks for the welcome :)

I was searching the internet for information about the candidates and I came across the site. I've been reading for a few days now, and thought I would join.

[seabeyond]

66. well, welcome. i came in feb 04 so got to be here during the campaign. was excellent to have info

and know ahead of the news what was happening so when news told a lie i could give the people in my area the truth. plus, it is just heartening to have du and support during campaign. i live in a very conservative area and can be discouraging.

[SunsetDreams]

70. Thank you

You've been here a while lol That sounds cool, hopefully I can stay on top of the news too here, it is not possible to watch every channel lol I've always been somewhat interested in politics, but this year I am sooooo excited. I feel like an addict! I know what you mean about living in a conservative area, I live in Oklahoma, and I've never heard of it going to blue. I do plan on doing everything I can to get out the vote for the GE though, you never know, you might just change someone's views.

[seabeyond]

71. well, i am in amarillo, not far from you. and addict is appropriate. used to be concerned

about hubby acceptng my addiction, but he has learned to live with and all is good.

[SunsetDreams]

72. lol same here

It's a good thing we have more than one TV, otherwise we'd be fighting over the channels. My hubby likes to glance and see what's going on every now and then, enough to keep informed, but I think I go overboard, I feel like I can never get enough information. I'm always seeking to learn more.

[Jamastiene]

61. I sumbled in here from The Right Is Wrong website...

Either that one or the Turn Left website back in late 2003. Seems like years ago now.

[seabeyond]

67. "late 2003. Seems like years ago now" it is. 4 years anyway, lol n/t

[Pisces]

62. Found it mentioned on a different blog site.

[Not the Only One]

65. from Stephanie Miller's show

I like it here.

[seabeyond]

68. i think that is more what i was wondering. if any of these dem people had mentioned

it or something, recently, to cause such an influx of newbies

welcome and enjoy

[Not the Only One]

73. thanks

I like that Obama is so popular here. I like listening to Steph's show because she likes him, too, and calls Hillary on her Rovian tactics, like she is here at DU.

[bicentennial_baby]

69. Ha! I love your sig pic!

Welcome!

[Not the Only One]

74. thanks

I appreciate it. It's a great resource for the truth.

And, Go Sox and Gobama!

[Huge Ego Sorry]

75. I've been lurking about for years...

In fact, long enough that I'd forgotten how I ended up here. I just didn't have much to say that didn't already get said by someone else.

[seabeyond]

77. boy i respect that. soooo not me, lol. i get tickle just trying to figure

people that can keep their mouth shut. lol. i am seeing a lot of lurkers coming out

[Huge Ego Sorry]

82. Well, having a screen name

cuts down on the number of ads...

And seeing as I run my yap for a living, I guess it's a lot easier to keep quiet online.

[seabeyond]

83. you may have a point. i am not real fond of people, lol and i am isolated

so this is really my socializing.

[Huge Ego Sorry]

87. I hate people...

But I love crowds. Isn't it ironic?

[seabeyond]

89. it is... another opposite, hate crowds, can do one on one. but i can

see hating people liking crowds. there is an anonymous. kinda like the whole lurking thing, being a part without.

my thing is whenever in a crowd i become center, and i dont try, dont want to be but always am so i tend to stay away. is like a light on me.

interesting huh. diversity. cool stuff.

[Huge Ego Sorry]

92. If we ever met in person I think there would be a huge explosion...

like a matter/antimatter reaction. First of all, I love being the center of attention; which I suppose makes my job a whole lot easier. Even if I'm not in the center of attention, I'm near enough to the middle to get whatever points I need to get across to everyone else. When I'm talking to someone one on one, invariably I end up "talking" to someone who is really just looking for someone to talk at.

[seabeyond]

93. lol lol lol... that is the funniest n/t

[Frank Booth]

76. I've been reading this site

since after the GE in 2000. I'm not sure why I recently started posting. Just got bored I guess.

[seabeyond]

78. hm... lots and lots

of lurkers. was just saying, how foriegn that is to me. 2000 was the very beginning. you should be welcoming me. lol

[Utopian Leftist]

79. Long-time reader

I've been reading here since the 2004 election. Someone at the Kerry Campaign Headquarters told me about the site.

The reason I have never posted much is because this board moves SO FAST! By the time I think of what I want to say usually ten other people have said it. Or the thread is already gone from the first page and I can't find it. Or you make a post and then come back hours later and can't find the thread because it has fallen several pages down the list.

Still a great place to come to keep up on the latest events though.

[seabeyond]

81. a tip. go to your "my DU" and you will be able to find your posts and if anyone responded to you

then you can click on that and go directly to respond to the respond. otherwise you are right, it is gone.... and what fun is that. the my du is one of my favorite features on this board.

[Utopian Leftist]

86. THANK YOU

for that wonderful tip! I had no idea I could do that, lol.

[seabeyond]

90. well... what a bitch. lol. i wouldnt like it either. lol. oh my. glad you

caught the message.

[DevonRex]

84. A not new newbie...

I used to come here frequently. Way back in 2000 (?) someone here posted something on another site that he had written here and put the link up. But a couple of years ago my hard drive went poof and I lost all my favorite sites and passwords and just never signed up again with my new computer & ISP.

So I'm thinking that a lot of folks are just coming back now that we finally have a chance in the GE, especially with this hard fight between the dem candidates. And a lot of people were probably lurkers (of whom I've been one) for a long time, too.
jennifer in colorado

[seabeyond]

91. seems to be. welcome back.... already posted above to you. n/t