How do we know the "ignore list" isn't fake?

[loveangelc]

I mean, I saw the thread that supposedly started this speculation and it was by a Hillary Clinton supporter. Why would they know about such a list, and who was on the list, and how does anyone know this person didn't just make it up to make Obama supporters on here look bad?

Anyway, I've been seeing posts on this supposed "ignore list" and I think this whole thing is silly...

[anamandujano]

1. Can you hear me noooooooooooooow?

[loveangelc]

8. youre not on my ignore list yet. you never have anything of value to say tbh.

[LakeSamish706]

2. I guess the better question is, why should we care? Don't really care if others want...

to put me on ignore...

[Drunken Irishman]

3. I've never even heard of this ignore list.

And I think I'm one of the most active Obama supporters.

[Cha]

32. I haven't seen it either and haven't gone on

any threads about this except this one that asks a good question.

If it smells like bullshit.

[Bake]

53. Sorry you're not important enought to get it via PM ...

It was actually posted here earlier, and the mods deleted it.

Bake

[ruggerson]

4. I think both Carville and Plouffe created it

it was designed to confuse us

[LTR]

5. It's not

I actually have a copy, and posted it here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5240996#5241071

[stillcool]

22. wow....I know some of them!

:rofl:

[MonkeyFunk]

6. Why do we care?

Just everybody stop talking about it, and it won't be important.

[scheming daemons]

7. I haven't been sent any ignore list.... all of the people in my ignore list have EARNED it....

...with their disruptiveness.

[CitizenLeft]

12. amen.

Worked VERY hard to be on it.

[DearAbby]

9. awhile back

I recall a post, of a OP's personal list, had offered through PM to send it...to me it was to compare lists? I donno, it was only a few DUers at best. Not a massive sharing of lists.

Most HRC supporters know they are not on a massive list, when so many of us reply to their posts.

I admit in recent weeks I had a small list, of the more virulent posters, nothing like was posted. I had since dropped it.

[JI7]

10. i think some Clinton supporters made it up so they can do the martyr thing

as they are doing right now. even comparing themselves to Holocaust victims.

[loveangelc]

11. exactly.

[ingac70]

13. That's exactly it.

I don't have anyone on ignore, and have received no "list". I think it is just shit they made up.

[K Gardner]

15. That's exactly it, and now you have Obama supporters falling for the

bullshit, just like the media falls for Clinton Victim Whining.

Unfuckingbelievable.

There is no freaking "mass list". We started this MOVEMENT a few days ago to try to get some civility on this scum infested board.

It involved simply NOT RESPONDING TO FLAMEBAIT. Now everybody is right back down in the mud.

Congrats, Obamasupporters.. you fell for it.

[ruggerson]

18. You're dead wrong, K

Here's one of the threads that started it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=5104351

[ruggerson]

16. if you want to know the truth

I remember one of the first lists passed around and it was very real and it was from an Obama supporter. And he wrote a number of idiotic threads actively encouraging people to use his list. I'll be happy to provide you his name if you want to PM me.

[Radical Activist]

39. Then put that person on ignore and get over it.

I think people are milking the dumb actions of one person for all its worth. The Clinton campaign seems to thrive on a persecution complex.

[ruggerson]

45. I think you're bent out of shape because the OP is wrong

I don't belong to a secret forum.

I haven't been complaining about the idiocy of this whole subject. I happen to think ignore is dumb and started a thread tonight on it, tongue in cheek.

I only responded in this thread because it is factually correct that there were lists being "circulated" by various Obama supporters.

Don't generalize about Clinton supporters. You can't generalize about them anymore than you can about Obama supporters.

Just because some of you didn't get these moronic lists PM'ed to you didn't mean it wasn't happening.

This isn't a case of Bishop Berkely.

[Catherina]

Please tell me they're not comparing themselves to Holocaust victims n/t

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

14. It's A List That A Particularly Childish And Often Ignorant DU'er Made Public On Another Website.

I doubt many others are using it fully here though, since most of the more extreme Obama zealots seem to be the slacker live in mom's basement types that would be too lazy to put that many people on ignore lol.

But the list is real, and there were insinuations on that site that others would use it. So no, this isn't a Hillary supporter scheme, though it is likely being blown out of proportion a bit.

[loveangelc]

38. "and there were insinuations on that site that others would use it."

is there another site that people are going to?

[Dogmudgeon]

17. It's all a Hillary-driven plot!

And they didn't even tell me!

--p!
They left me out of the Jewish Conspiracy, too.

[ruggerson]

19. This is how you know it isn't fake

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=5104351

(amongst others)

[Catherina]

28. Ruggerson. Nobody's been passing a list around

Maybe a few people shared something but there's no official list I know of.

There are 10 people left on mine. Anytime I add someone it's for vile behavior and the mods seem to get to them too. Sometimes what gets blamed on a vast conspiracy is just behavior.

[ruggerson]

33. Well they sure made a big show of in in the thread I linked

and it kind of took off after that, Catherina.

I know there are tons of great Obama people on this board. Some are my favorite people here.

But, the OP is flat out wrong in insinuating that Clinton supporters started this childishness to make others look bad. Read the thread I linked.

[Breeze54]

40. Ah, yes they have but they got locked. n/t

[anamandujano]

30. I don't mind saying that he is on my ignore list.

[FlyingSquirrel]

37. Against rules to link to a locked thread. nt

[bridgit]

20. Because BO supporters are proud of it...that makes it LAW!

Welcome to the New New World Dis-Order

[Maddy McCall]

21. The person who is circulating the list has done similar things in other DU forums.

And has played similar disruptive games in non DU forums.

If I did not have this knowledge, I might agree that it's paranoia run amok.

Sadly, though, the person who started the ignore list has employed similar games elsewhere. So it's entirely believable that he'd do the same in GDP. His lounge audience pretty much ignores him these days.

[Name removed]

23. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Maddy McCall]

24. The one I'm talking about is circulating the list.

Yes, just read that in your other post.

The one I'm talking about has been banned previously, and time-outted over his antisocial behavior. He often boasts that he has x-hundred people on ignore.

[ruggerson]

25. Everyone on this thread suddenly got very quiet

:)

[Drunken Irishman]

26. So why is it most Obama supporters have no FUCKING clue what you're talking about?

The most active Obama supporters have seen no list. If one is out there, they've done a piss poor job of circulating it.

[Name removed]

27. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Drunken Irishman]

34. Huh?

One person posts that people can message him for a list of who he's ignoring and it automatically means Obama supporters are circulating a list of posters to ignore? HAHAHA

Is that all you got?

[ruggerson]

36. It proves the OP wrong.

It's evidence in black and white. And it went viral from there.

It's a pretty open and shut case.

And it would be really refreshing if you could just say "oh, ok, I didn't realize there were idiots doing that."

But you can't, for some reason.

[Drunken Irishman]

42. It proves no one wrong.

There is no list circulating. One poster asking people to message him for the names of people to ignore does not mean Obama supporters are conspiring privately over who to ignore.

[ruggerson]

50. Uh huh. Whatever you say.

[Drunken Irishman]

54. Nice reply.

Show me the evidence where Obama supporters are circulating a list of who to block.

[Catherina]

29. More projection. Just ignore it. We're not the ones hiding in secret forums

Just ignore it and get back to Tuzla. I think that's what this hissyfit is really about.

[emilyg]

51. Perhaps because you're one of the sane ones.?

[Radical Activist]

35. What's the point of going to a DISCUSSION forum and putting a ton of people on ignore?

If you don't want to talk to people then GO DO SOMETHING ELSE! Go exercise or something. I never understood people who brag about their ignore lists.

[Radical Activist]

31. Exactly what I was thinking.

[Breeze54]

41. I assure you that my 'ignore' list is real.

;)

[Joe the Revelator]

43. The drama queens of DU make up half the stuff the cry about

this is no exception.

[Crunchy Frog]

44. Please respond to my poll here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5197734

I'm trying to gather some empirical evidence as to whether or not, and to what extent, this "list" phenomenon actually exists. I'm getting some interesting results so far. :)

[Major Hogwash]

46. There is no "ignore list". It's as fake as Hillary's trip to Bosnia in 1996.

It's a total fabrication.

[InsultComicDog]

47. no one is on my ignore list

yet

[crankychatter]

48. How can I know what Rovian Filth the GOP will use against Obama if I ignore Clinton Supporters?

you can't tell the players without a program

[Warren Stupidity]

49. I'd suggest looking at the list

and then looking at the posts of the posters on that list
and then seeing if they are in fact clinton flame throwers posting ridiculous smears on a regular basis.

If it all adds up, if the list is very accurate, it doesn't much matter if it is real or fake.

Up in GDP there is an OP from somebody who just cannot wait to go on strike at midnight. If I understand this very stupid situation, that would corroborate one of the assertions of the now infamous 'list' poster. Then again it could of course be a false flag post intended to make the list poster's post look authentic. Did I mention that this whole thing, on both sides, is STUPID? No? This whole thing, the endless smear fest, the 'strike', the 'ignore list', it is all DUMB.

[Bake]

52. Sometimes the mods do their jobs a little too well!

Regardless, Mods, you do your thankless job well, and I salute you!

BAke