I'd like to be Mod For A Day.

[trof]

We have a forum for discussing politics.
It's called "General Discussion - Politics".
It's right over there.
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I come here to discuss other things.
And to see what folks are talking about that ISN'T politics.
I realize that some overlap is inevitable.
A lot of what happens in our lives is now either driven by politics, or a result of political decisions.

But I'd start by moving every thread in GD that mentions political candidates by name over there
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Aren't you glad I'm not a mod?
;-)

[Solly Mack]

1. I'm feeling it

[havocmom]

2. I'd vote to give you the power for a day...

or longer.

Yep, I try to avoid the candidate pushing at this point. Going through GD is like tryin to walk barefoot on a turkey farm.

[salin]

3. ewwww

what a cringe-worthy image (the barefoot walk on the turkey farm, not the trof as mod thing that would be cool.) :hi:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. Could be worse.

Could be a barefoot walk through a Goose farm. ;-)

[salin]

9. or streaking in a goat farm?

:hi:

This thread is attracting many of my favorites... think I need to hang out here for more than a minute!

[Grateful for Hope]

7. It sure is,

Although, what I have been doing is avoiding the candidate threads. From what I have seen, many are nothing more than cheerleader attempts to garner support for that particular candidate.

What I would really like to see is a real discussion about the pros and cons of each candidate. So far, haven't seen it.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

25. So realtively little about strengths and positions.

So many attacks.

I find that tedious, in and of itself, but especially since this cycle started so goddamned early.

[Grateful for Hope]

29. Exactly

n/t

[Robbien]

4. Well, everything is politics. But I'm with you if you mean campaign issues

that stuff has a place and the place it belongs in the GDP.

Send alerts to the mods and ask them to move campaign threads whydoncha?

[Suich]

6. Out of 79 threads,

68 are political. Hmmmmmmm.

[Buzz Clik]

8. Well, good luck with this. Threads that criticize moderating have a way of disappearing.

[salin]

10. less a criticism of mods - and more a criticism of posters and clogging

up GD when there is a GDP forum (which, if memory serves, is exactly why GDP was created - during the last pres. primary season.)

[Buzz Clik]

11. Clogging? Well, what to you come to GD to read, and how do political posts get in the way?

Right now there must be 200 forums at DU. Fishing and biking and support groups for various diseases and state-by-state chats and home improvement and gardening and conspiracy theories and theology and specific religions and labor and women and alternative lifestyles and sports and .... it goes on forever.

GD is just a big mass of stuff that could go in one of these other forums. But you know what? Hardly anybody goes there. I had a specific technical question about html coding. I posted it on the appropriate forum, and it went unanswered for as long as I could afford to wait. I reposted it on GD, and I got my answer in 15 minutes.

Is that a good thing? I dunno, but that's the way it is.

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ON EDIT:

P.S. I think you have it kinda backwards. People gravitate to the specific forums when they want a slower pace and more considered responses. In GD, it's flow of consciousness.

[salin]

12. not politics per se (heck that is GD) - but poltiical campaigning for a specific

candidate. That is why GDP was created. There are plenty of folks at GDP to answer questions about dem primary candidates.

Now repub primary candidates - that makes sense in GD as it is general (political) discussion rather than candidate jockeying.

[Buzz Clik]

14. Ah, now I understand.

Well, if this cycle goes like last time, we will start seeing the formation of candidate-specific forums. There will be special rules, and the place will be a total madhouse.

Chaos will be the order of the day.

[salin]

16. I think some of the chaos and factionalism has already begun...

having been through it before - somehow I am a bit more disconnected this time around - so it does't make my blood boil in irritation the way it did last time.

[Buzz Clik]

21. Yes, I agree. I, too, am not seething ... yet. It's just too early.

The current political dung flinging is completely premature.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

15. i think trof means retarded political threads.

like most of gd today.

[Buzz Clik]

18. LOL! (no comment)

[trof]

31. PUH-LEEZ! I did NOT use the term 'retarded'.

Don't bring THAT shitstorm down on my head.
;-)

[Hepburn]

13. OK...where did this belong:

I started a thread about the soldier convicted or raping and murdering the 14-year-old Iraqi girl. Is that a general discussion or a political dicussion? My issue was that the guy who acted as a look out ~~ convicted of being an accessory to a rape-murder ~~ got less that 2.5 years for what he did.

Some times I really am not sure where things belong.

[salin]

17. definitely GD; the politics forum is more about the primary campaigns,

or at least that is how the two were differentiated the last primary go round.

[TahitiNut]

19. Moderators (just other DUers) act only with CONSENSUS.

Repeat that to yourself until you get it, OK?

:evilgrin:

[MonkeyFunk]

20. i'd like to see a rule

that new threads in GD must contain a substantive point. Anything that's just "fuck the dems!" would be deleted.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

26. And besides...

It's confusing. Are we supposed to fuck the dems all at once or one at a time. Either way, would that be even possible in one lifetime? ;-)

[Cameron27]

32. !!!

:spray:

[dkofos]

22. Who wants to keep jumping between pages. You can get it all in GD.

Even not so late breaking news!!

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

23. i have been lobbying skinner for years...

to separate the lounge into "Lounge - pictures of cats" and "Lounge - not pictures of cats."

[trof]

30. If you were a girl, I'd ask you to go steady.

But lemme buy you a drink, anyway.
:toast:

[Pastiche423]

24. I'd vote for that!

Remembering how nasty GD got in the 03/04 primaries, I'd hope the same thing would happen during this primary.

Any post on any and all primary candidates must go to GD: Politics.

Maybe the mods have not been apprised of this?

[BlooInBloo]

27. Not nearly as glad as they are that *I'm* not a mod. :)

[Beausoir]

28. You would make an OUTSTANDING mod. Then, we could have a GD, a GDP and a GDM.

General discussion of martinis.

I vote aye!

[trof]

35. I think I'll slip out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini.

;-)

[Forkboy]

33. The ultimate thankless job.

People who suck sewers get more appreciation than DU's mods.

I've never applied to be one.One,no one would welcome an ass like me as a mod,and two,I'd tombstone all you fuckers!

:yoiks:

:)

[orleans]

34. not a good idea. i just read your op and heard the rumble of THUNDER

i think it's a sign.

[trof]

36. Storm a brewin'?