LONG TIME LURKER here with a question for GD:P

[Mick426]

When will the acrimony in said forum end.

[EFerrari]

1. When we have a nominee.

Almost there!

[scheming daemons]

2. Here's how it works....

A) As soon as Obama is OFFICIALLY the nominee, this forum will be renamed "GD: General Election".

B) After that point, a lot of Clinton fans on here will be tombstoned the very next time they attack our nominee.

[silverweb]

5. I CAN'T WAIT!!!

:bounce:

[Mick426]

7. I OBJECT to the notion that the losing side will simply want to cuddle up to the opposing candidate.

Some Hill supporters are SUSTAINED by her persona. MORALLY invested; like she is a personal friend of theirs.

[Adelante]

10. When will the acrimony end?

If there is no cuddling up?

[scheming daemons]

12. They will have no choice.... attacks on our nominee, once this forum is called GD: GE....will result

..in tombstones.


That's always been the rule.

[Avalux]

13. Please read the DU rules.

Hillary supporters will be welcome here once the primary is over, as long as they do not make it their objective to denigrate Obama.

[Liberal Gramma]

16. Cuddling up is not required

but snarky negative comments about the nominee won't be tolerated by the Board police.

[patrice]

25. No one has to forsake their candidate. I, for example, am an

Edwardsian Deanocrat who started out supporting Richardson and now I'm supporting Obama.

When your guy or gal is out of the race for the nomination, you just have to re-define their role in the party, you don't have to betray them.

[ginnyinWI]

32. It was the same with Howard Dean last time.

He told Tim Russert today that it took him three months to get his followers to transition over to working for the Kerry campaign. It can be done though.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

24. As much as I've had TS cartoon images flung at me, won't happen.

:hi:

I'm like Wonderwoman or something. :-)

[cliffordu]

29. I CAN HARDLY FOCKING WAIT.

[Adelante]

3. Did you sign up just to ask that?

[jefferson_dem]

4. Once Hillary concedes and Obama is the nominee.

And it will only end then because no more lambasting our Party's nominee will be permitted here on DU.

[Coexist]

6. about a week after we have a nominee,

or after the first debate with McCain.

[yewberry]

8. GDP tends to be more "spirited" than the other boards to begin with.

Once the nomination is settled, most of us will pull together and back the nominee.

(Yes, I said most and I'm sticking to it.)

Personally, I can't wait to start kicking McNasty's butt.

[TheDoorbellRang]

14. Spirited....Spirited?

Yup, that's GD-P all right. We are indeed spirited. :bounce:

I like that a lot better than the descriptors I've seen of GD-P in the other forums. Would you believe that some consider GD-P the mudpit? The slimepit? The darkest of hells?

Like Rev Wright would say, we who haunt the threads of GD-P are different, not deficient.:D

[yewberry]

36. True that.

As a board, this one tends to be somewhat more energetic, let's say. I think spirited works well.

We're just invested in the process, I tell ya.

[Warren DeMontague]

30. "spirited", in that the OP already has a tombstone..

I guess he should have remained a lurker? :shrug:

[yewberry]

37. Well, it happens.

This board isn't for everyone. No shame in that!

[TheDoorbellRang]

39. "spirited," as in the moderators spirited him away

:spray:

[BlooInBloo]

9. Why do you hate America?

:P

[JohnnyLib2]

11. Heh. Oldtimers used to reassure us that love would prevail.

Haven't heard that for months now.....:evilgrin:

[MercutioATC]

15. We "oldtimers" know better than to say that now...

...we just wait for people to realize it once it happens


:)

Yes, and I used my 19,000th post to reveal that tidbit...

[JohnnyLib2]

19. 19,000--congratulations!

And I truly hope you are correct. :hi:

[MercutioATC]

20. There will be 2-3 weeks of unrest, but we'll all be pulling together soon.

Perspective is a wonderful thing...but it's hard to gain in the heat of the battle.

[hfojvt]

17. I believe this link should answer your question

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=196554#197873

[SoCalDem]

18. by the 7th day after we have a nominee..n/t

[Swamp Rat]

21. Welcome to DU!

:hi:



:D

[akbacchus_BC]

22. Welcome to DU. It will be over soon. Senator Barack is our nominee n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

23. In May

[patrice]

26. It's actually a **little** better now than it has been.

:hide:

[lapfog_1]

27. I have 349 posters on

ignore... and I hardly see their ghostly traces on a majority of threads in GDP.

Of course, I don't see the threads they originate at all.

But at least they are staying away from threads they don't start.

[patrice]

28. I had someone on ignore once, took her off a few months later. Don't have anyone on ignore anymore.

Though there are people who piss me off, I mostly leave them alone. I think it's interesting to see as much of the whole thing as I can.

[lapfog_1]

34. I never had anyone on ignore

until this campaign season... in fact, up until the Nevada caucus.

I started the list as a defense mechanism...

I was spending too much time debating people who will never accept my point of view and I will never accept theirs. In addition, I cannot read something that I know to be a falsehood and just let it go... which led to me spending even more time in DU than I can afford, not to mention that it would leave me aggravated to no end, which is the object of the other sides arguments. Not to win, but to simply aggravate those of us that are fairly certain we have "facts" on our side.

And, finally, I have so many on ignore because I do not wish to engage and get into a response cycle where I type things which are against DU rules and get me my very own granite cookie.

As soon as we have a nominee, everyone comes off ignore.

[patrice]

35. I can't blame you. There's some very dumb mean people around.

Being mean is one thing, but being so dumb you don't know how dumb you are is real frustrating to others.

The little bit I do mix it up with trolls and freeps, they don't seem to want to carry it on too long. That's probably not due to my brilliance ;) as much as it is due to their limitations.

[2rth2pwr]

31. As soon as the Obama followers practice what they preach, unity and

different does not mean deficient.

[McCamy Taylor]

33. When people notice that it is being fued by RNC moles. Anyone asking us to hate a Democrat

is an RNC mole just as anyone telling protesters to break the law is police undercover.

[grantcart]

38. well that was the most unusual pizza run I have ever seen

couldn't figure out why and people keep talking to the granite hours after hes gone lol