You have lost control of dcum. The magas are taking over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that the BRF has loonies on both sides, both pro-RF and anti-RF. If you are going to just go by those who detract from the forum, then Jeff should just ban all discussion of the BRF on DCUM. That would go along way towards eliminating crazies from DCUM.

+1. I’d be down for that. I have no patience for the “William beats Kate” crazies, but the posters saying Kate’s figure is “perfection” (about a 2022, pre-cancer photo) and that Sarah Ferguson “doesn’t have the figure to wear stylish clothes like Kate does” (both posts within the past 2 days) are glorifying eating disorders or at least unrealistic expectations. And that’s actually harmful.

Shut the whole thing down. No discussion of the BRF.

Do you have a personal connection with eating disorders? You have commented about them many times.

[jsteele]

Could the posters who hate BRF threads simply skip them? I would love to avoid them myself but unfortunately am not allowed that luxury thanks to the constant reporting. But those of you who don't like people defending Kate or praising her figure could easily find other threads, couldn't you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wasn't so much "paranoia" as a recognition of the same tactics and tenor and rhetoric over and over and over again. Maybe the site needs a rule for how many times you can post anonymously in Politics over a given time period before you get a time-out.

The jackhammering some of these nuts are doing is truly grating. I tried rebuffing it but it's useless and tiring, Jeff <should> have more ability to deal with it than any of us, the only other recourse I have is to put myself in a time out before I just get completely frustrated and demoralized - which is exactly what that poster wants.

If you want that poster to run amok and run all over everyone, go right ahead. I'm out for now.

Again: which poster? Quote them here, with links. If it’s truly a troll - and there are *plenty* of LWNJ trolls - then report and don’t engage. And don’t lump everyone who disagrees with you into a “MAGA” group. Plenty of us are centrists and moderate Republicans (and Democrats!) who have valid POVs. This isn’t just your safe space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can I just add that these people spill over into other fora and take their obsessive behaviors with them.

I’m thinking of the Jill Biden Vogue cover thread in the Fashion and Beauty forum, where they’re trashing Jill over nothing related to fashion. Or in the same forum where they’ve launched a British Royal Family obsessives fashion thread where fawning adoration is required and any suggestion about frumpiness is immediately quashed or reported to you. And yes, two of the Kate worshippers have admitted to preferring Trump to Biden.

OMG - so you’re the same poster who feels that you should be able to trash the BRF on a FASHION thread, but no one better do the same thing to Jill Biden on HER fashion thread?? Do you even hear yourself? What a complete hypocrite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can I just add that these people spill over into other fora and take their obsessive behaviors with them.

I’m thinking of the Jill Biden Vogue cover thread in the Fashion and Beauty forum, where they’re trashing Jill over nothing related to fashion. Or in the same forum where they’ve launched a British Royal Family obsessives fashion thread where fawning adoration is required and any suggestion about frumpiness is immediately quashed or reported to you. And yes, two of the Kate worshippers have admitted to preferring Trump to Biden.

The Vogue thread was originally in the Political forum but I moved it. I've also cleaned it up twice. Your description of the BRF threads is not accurate and the anti-Kate posters, including yourself, are nearly as bad. Repeatedly posting about two conservatives who also defend Kate is, frankly, insane. Who cares if they are MAGAs in that case? All the Kate threads are crazy and there are weird posters on both sides.

They’ve both said things about how they’d rather have the BRF than senile Joe Biden, so there’s that. One even posted pro-Kate and pro-Trump stuff in the same thread. I get you don’t read those threads if you can possibly help it, but it goes on.

DP. But no problem with YOU accusing them of being “MAGA” while at the same time expecting everyone to be completely fawning over Jill Biden? Unreal. You have zero self-awareness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can I just add that these people spill over into other fora and take their obsessive behaviors with them.

I’m thinking of the Jill Biden Vogue cover thread in the Fashion and Beauty forum, where they’re trashing Jill over nothing related to fashion. Or in the same forum where they’ve launched a British Royal Family obsessives fashion thread where fawning adoration is required and any suggestion about frumpiness is immediately quashed or reported to you. And yes, two of the Kate worshippers have admitted to preferring Trump to Biden.

The Vogue thread was originally in the Political forum but I moved it. I've also cleaned it up twice. Your description of the BRF threads is not accurate and the anti-Kate posters, including yourself, are nearly as bad. Repeatedly posting about two conservatives who also defend Kate is, frankly, insane. Who cares if they are MAGAs in that case? All the Kate threads are crazy and there are weird posters on both sides.

They’ve both said things about how they’d rather have the BRF than senile Joe Biden, so there’s that. One even posted pro-Kate and pro-Trump stuff in the same thread. I get you don’t read those threads if you can possibly help it, but it goes on.

PS. I’m also not “anti-Kate.” What I am is anti-fawning over eating disorders. That’s where you’ll mostly see my chime in. I haven’t posted any of the weird conspiracy stuff.

DP. Anytime someone says, “Oh, Kate looks great in that dress,” you hysterically pipe up that we must be “encouraging eating disorders.” You and your idiotic accusations of “eating disorders” makes it clear it is you who has the disorder - eating or otherwise. Quit griping about her weight. It would be just as bad if someone was rabidly criticizing someone who was overweight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why shouldn't Trump supporters be able to post in the Politics forum. You think only people supporting Biden should be able to post?

Yes I believe that wholeheartedly in fact. They should have no forum or voice whatsoever.

My god. And you call other people, “fascists.” Seek help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree that the BRF has loonies on both sides, both pro-RF and anti-RF. If you are going to just go by those who detract from the forum, then Jeff should just ban all discussion of the BRF on DCUM. That would go along way towards eliminating crazies from DCUM.

I agree. However, the BRF fashion thread was started by an OP who very clearly asked if we could just keep the thread to discussions of their fashion choices - nothing else. It started out well but then the loon who has outed herself here felt it was the perfect vehicle for her to start trashing certain members of that family again, rather than staying on topic. I hope anyone reading that thread reports her when she tries again to derail it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why shouldn't Trump supporters be able to post in the Politics forum. You think only people supporting Biden should be able to post?

I think OP’s issue is the posts containing total falsehoods.

+1

MAGAs lie endlessly

+2

And I suspect they sock-puppet, but I can’t prove that. Maybe they decided on another forum to come over here en masse.

You are hopeless. You simply don’t like anyone disagreeing with you, so this is how you try to shut down any POV you dislike. I can’t imagine what it’s like living or working with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jeff, can I ask a related question? Are you seeing any patterns with the MAGA assault on the politics forum in terms of whether it’s the same few posters over and over, where they’re located, etc? All the post-debate threads sound so much alike.

Maybe that area needs to be shut for a while like the soccer forum.

The MAGAs are saying the same thing over and over, and I find it really suspicious that the talking point is about Biden stepping down. This seems highly planned.

I think we’ve found the troll ^^

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/opinion/biden-election-debate-trump.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/28/david-ignatius-biden-trump-debate-age/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/01/politics/biden-campaign-reelection-debate/index.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that the BRF has loonies on both sides, both pro-RF and anti-RF. If you are going to just go by those who detract from the forum, then Jeff should just ban all discussion of the BRF on DCUM. That would go along way towards eliminating crazies from DCUM.

+1. I’d be down for that. I have no patience for the “William beats Kate” crazies, but the posters saying Kate’s figure is “perfection” (about a 2022, pre-cancer photo) and that Sarah Ferguson “doesn’t have the figure to wear stylish clothes like Kate does” (both posts within the past 2 days) are glorifying eating disorders or at least unrealistic expectations. And that’s actually harmful.

Shut the whole thing down. No discussion of the BRF.

You could always skip the fashion thread which really seems to trigger you.
DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can I just add that these people spill over into other fora and take their obsessive behaviors with them.

I’m thinking of the Jill Biden Vogue cover thread in the Fashion and Beauty forum, where they’re trashing Jill over nothing related to fashion. Or in the same forum where they’ve launched a British Royal Family obsessives fashion thread where fawning adoration is required and any suggestion about frumpiness is immediately quashed or reported to you. And yes, two of the Kate worshippers have admitted to preferring Trump to Biden.

The Vogue thread was originally in the Political forum but I moved it. I've also cleaned it up twice. Your description of the BRF threads is not accurate and the anti-Kate posters, including yourself, are nearly as bad. Repeatedly posting about two conservatives who also defend Kate is, frankly, insane. Who cares if they are MAGAs in that case? All the Kate threads are crazy and there are weird posters on both sides.

They’ve both said things about how they’d rather have the BRF than senile Joe Biden, so there’s that. One even posted pro-Kate and pro-Trump stuff in the same thread. I get you don’t read those threads if you can possibly help it, but it goes on.

PS. I’m also not “anti-Kate.” What I am is anti-fawning over eating disorders. That’s where you’ll mostly see my chime in. I haven’t posted any of the weird conspiracy stuff.

DP. Anytime someone says, “Oh, Kate looks great in that dress,” you hysterically pipe up that we must be “encouraging eating disorders.” You and your idiotic accusations of “eating disorders” makes it clear it is you who has the disorder - eating or otherwise. Quit griping about her weight. It would be just as bad if someone was rabidly criticizing someone who was overweight.

Several of us think there’s something off, don’t pretend it’s just one person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that the BRF has loonies on both sides, both pro-RF and anti-RF. If you are going to just go by those who detract from the forum, then Jeff should just ban all discussion of the BRF on DCUM. That would go along way towards eliminating crazies from DCUM.

+1. I’d be down for that. I have no patience for the “William beats Kate” crazies, but the posters saying Kate’s figure is “perfection” (about a 2022, pre-cancer photo) and that Sarah Ferguson “doesn’t have the figure to wear stylish clothes like Kate does” (both posts within the past 2 days) are glorifying eating disorders or at least unrealistic expectations. And that’s actually harmful.

Shut the whole thing down. No discussion of the BRF.

Do you have a personal connection with eating disorders? You have commented about them many times.

+100
I think it’s abundantly obvious who has a disorder here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can I just add that these people spill over into other fora and take their obsessive behaviors with them.

I’m thinking of the Jill Biden Vogue cover thread in the Fashion and Beauty forum, where they’re trashing Jill over nothing related to fashion. Or in the same forum where they’ve launched a British Royal Family obsessives fashion thread where fawning adoration is required and any suggestion about frumpiness is immediately quashed or reported to you. And yes, two of the Kate worshippers have admitted to preferring Trump to Biden.

The Vogue thread was originally in the Political forum but I moved it. I've also cleaned it up twice. Your description of the BRF threads is not accurate and the anti-Kate posters, including yourself, are nearly as bad. Repeatedly posting about two conservatives who also defend Kate is, frankly, insane. Who cares if they are MAGAs in that case? All the Kate threads are crazy and there are weird posters on both sides.

They’ve both said things about how they’d rather have the BRF than senile Joe Biden, so there’s that. One even posted pro-Kate and pro-Trump stuff in the same thread. I get you don’t read those threads if you can possibly help it, but it goes on.

PS. I’m also not “anti-Kate.” What I am is anti-fawning over eating disorders. That’s where you’ll mostly see my chime in. I haven’t posted any of the weird conspiracy stuff.

DP. Anytime someone says, “Oh, Kate looks great in that dress,” you hysterically pipe up that we must be “encouraging eating disorders.” You and your idiotic accusations of “eating disorders” makes it clear it is you who has the disorder - eating or otherwise. Quit griping about her weight. It would be just as bad if someone was rabidly criticizing someone who was overweight.

Several of us think there’s something off, don’t pretend it’s just one person.

There is certainly something off with you. You’ve been asked by several people to stop discussing Kate Middleton’s weight - about which you know nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why shouldn't Trump supporters be able to post in the Politics forum. You think only people supporting Biden should be able to post?

Yes I believe that wholeheartedly in fact. They should have no forum or voice whatsoever.

Of course you do. No one in their right mind could possibly disagree with you. Anytime. Anywhere. On any issue. You’ve got it going on girl!