Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do I get paid? Currently, I’m just pissed off about the crime and my children witnessing 2 people shot to death. Let me know where the Troll Bureau is to get paid.

I'm sorry your children witnessed two people being shot. If guns were more strictly regulated, this would not happen.

Anonymous wrote:Where do I get paid? Currently, I’m just pissed off about the crime and my children witnessing 2 people shot to death. Let me know where the Troll Bureau is to get paid.

Anonymous wrote:What’s really true is that so few people post here and so many view it. It’s representative of the DC self-censorship

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While QoL was relatively good and I didn’t have to think should I take the car or leave it at home where it’s safer, should I take the shortcut, should I carry a decoy wallet, should I stop at this gas station?, I didn’t care who was on the Council. I assumed they couldn’t have been that talented if they were willing to get that dirty for that kind of compensation and assumed they wouldn’t cut it elsewhere. Very few seemed to have a coherent reason to run other than for their own benefit.

Well now that Charles Allen has undone all the progress we’ve achieved and things went South since he took office, I care a lot. I care that no one in his family ever earned anything my tax dollar didn’t pay for, that he never says crime or look constituents in the face. I even care about his wife’s nonprofit which spends 10% of its budget on her salary, 60% on other salaries and wages and another 10% on their office. It would be far cheaper to use the existing programs and online platforms for the same purpose, and 12,000 books could be delivered far cheaper. In private sector this business model would earn you a cooling off period

You came for my family and my neighbors and now you have our full attention. When kids can’t sleep because of the ATVs you tell us to soundproof our house or move. When children die on my doorstep you say crime has not increased. On the issues like housing schools and statehood you’ve made no progress and set us back decades.

So, enough already.

Exactly. I am thoroughly disgusted. Full disclosure, I posted once up thread. We are not all trolls! I believe none of us are! We are the Dems Charles Allen and his ilk won't look in the eye. We share progressive values and a lifetime of voting Democratic, but we are fed up with the lack of concern for our lives and the lives of our neighbors - Black, Hispanic, Asian (I am Asian, if that matters).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Jeff running for the Council? He took the time out of his day to review this thread even though he normally only reviews the most active threads. Thoughts?

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The final thread at which I'll look today was posted in the "Metropolitan DC Local Politics" forum and titled "Rolling gun battle in Capitol Hill tonight." The original poster describes a terrifying shootout between occupants of two moving vehicles. When the driver of one automobile was shot, the vehicle crashed into parked cars. Ultimately, two occupants of the vehicle died and one was wounded. The original poster is upset that nothing had been heard from DC Council Member Charles Allen. This thread demonstrates three trends that have been dominating the local politics forum: 1) posters fixated on crime; 2) posters absolutely, completely, insanely obsessed with Charles Allen; and 3) posters posting repeatedly in a compulsive manner. Admittedly, this was a pretty dramatic incident that probably deserves its own thread, but the repeated threads about crime are a somewhat new development on DCUM. I think much of this is driven by the new wave of "crime reporters" on Twitter. These individuals devote their time to listening to police scanners and then immediately posting about any incidents that catch their interest. I've found them to play a welcome role in providing information about what is happening around us. On the other hand, posters follow them on Twitter and immediately rush to DCUM to start threads based on the tweets. In the past, these posters might not even have known about many of the incidents, let alone started threads about them. As for Charles Allen, he has become the face of DC's response to crime. That is ironic given that the Metropolitan Police Departement is under the control of DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, not Ward 6's Council Member. For all the criticism Allen receives on DCUM, he is a remarkably popular Council Member. In both last year's Democratic Primary and the General Election, he was unopposed. The angry posters on DCUM could not even convince anyone to run against him. Next are the compulsive posters. I don't know if posters have an authentic concern about crime and actually hold Alen responsible for it, and, hence, detest him, or if they hate Allen and find crime to be a good issue to use against him. Either way, the combination of crime and Allen brings out some particularly obsessive users. For context, this thread is currently 11 pages and consisting of 155 posts. Of those, the original poster is responsible for at least seven posts, which is not a lot I guess. But, another Allen critic posted at least 21 responses. A third poster — also anti-Allen — managed at least 27 posts in the thread. But, the winner of the Allen-hating extravaganza was a poster who probably wore out her keyboard posting at least 46 times. That is 101 posts just between these 4 posters. In contrast, a dedicated Allen defender managed 19 posts. The Allen supporter was convinced that he was facing off against paid trolls, but he is simply unaware of the obsessive-compulsive nature of these posters. At any rate, if you are intersted in epic anti-Charles Allen rants, this is the thread for you.

this is Exhibit A in demonstrating the deliberate attempts to pressure people not to talk about crime on the Hill. People probably think I’m paranoid, but there is a concerted effort to “control the narrative” by keeping criticism of “progressive” issues off social media. School closures, crime, critisism of IB DCPS, criticism of WTU, criticism of Charles Allen …

I agree. Because it uses the same tropes it’s from the same kitchen

Anonymous wrote:While QoL was relatively good and I didn’t have to think should I take the car or leave it at home where it’s safer, should I take the shortcut, should I carry a decoy wallet, should I stop at this gas station?, I didn’t care who was on the Council. I assumed they couldn’t have been that talented if they were willing to get that dirty for that kind of compensation and assumed they wouldn’t cut it elsewhere. Very few seemed to have a coherent reason to run other than for their own benefit.

Well now that Charles Allen has undone all the progress we’ve achieved and things went South since he took office, I care a lot. I care that no one in his family ever earned anything my tax dollar didn’t pay for, that he never says crime or look constituents in the face. I even care about his wife’s nonprofit which spends 10% of its budget on her salary, 60% on other salaries and wages and another 10% on their office. It would be far cheaper to use the existing programs and online platforms for the same purpose, and 12,000 books could be delivered far cheaper. In private sector this business model would earn you a cooling off period

You came for my family and my neighbors and now you have our full attention. When kids can’t sleep because of the ATVs you tell us to soundproof our house or move. When children die on my doorstep you say crime has not increased. On the issues like housing schools and statehood you’ve made no progress and set us back decades.

So, enough already.

Anonymous wrote:Jeff’s post confirms what I’ve long suspected. A very small handful of prolific posters dominate the Politics and Metropolitan DC Local Politics forums. It’s the same two or three unhinged individuals parroting between themselves.

Anonymous wrote:Where do I get paid? Currently, I’m just pissed off about the crime and my children witnessing 2 people shot to death. Let me know where the Troll Bureau is to get paid.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Jeff running for the Council? He took the time out of his day to review this thread even though he normally only reviews the most active threads. Thoughts?

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The final thread at which I'll look today was posted in the "Metropolitan DC Local Politics" forum and titled "Rolling gun battle in Capitol Hill tonight." The original poster describes a terrifying shootout between occupants of two moving vehicles. When the driver of one automobile was shot, the vehicle crashed into parked cars. Ultimately, two occupants of the vehicle died and one was wounded. The original poster is upset that nothing had been heard from DC Council Member Charles Allen. This thread demonstrates three trends that have been dominating the local politics forum: 1) posters fixated on crime; 2) posters absolutely, completely, insanely obsessed with Charles Allen; and 3) posters posting repeatedly in a compulsive manner. Admittedly, this was a pretty dramatic incident that probably deserves its own thread, but the repeated threads about crime are a somewhat new development on DCUM. I think much of this is driven by the new wave of "crime reporters" on Twitter. These individuals devote their time to listening to police scanners and then immediately posting about any incidents that catch their interest. I've found them to play a welcome role in providing information about what is happening around us. On the other hand, posters follow them on Twitter and immediately rush to DCUM to start threads based on the tweets. In the past, these posters might not even have known about many of the incidents, let alone started threads about them. As for Charles Allen, he has become the face of DC's response to crime. That is ironic given that the Metropolitan Police Departement is under the control of DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, not Ward 6's Council Member. For all the criticism Allen receives on DCUM, he is a remarkably popular Council Member. In both last year's Democratic Primary and the General Election, he was unopposed. The angry posters on DCUM could not even convince anyone to run against him. Next are the compulsive posters. I don't know if posters have an authentic concern about crime and actually hold Alen responsible for it, and, hence, detest him, or if they hate Allen and find crime to be a good issue to use against him. Either way, the combination of crime and Allen brings out some particularly obsessive users. For context, this thread is currently 11 pages and consisting of 155 posts. Of those, the original poster is responsible for at least seven posts, which is not a lot I guess. But, another Allen critic posted at least 21 responses. A third poster — also anti-Allen — managed at least 27 posts in the thread. But, the winner of the Allen-hating extravaganza was a poster who probably wore out her keyboard posting at least 46 times. That is 101 posts just between these 4 posters. In contrast, a dedicated Allen defender managed 19 posts. The Allen supporter was convinced that he was facing off against paid trolls, but he is simply unaware of the obsessive-compulsive nature of these posters. At any rate, if you are intersted in epic anti-Charles Allen rants, this is the thread for you.

this is Exhibit A in demonstrating the deliberate attempts to pressure people not to talk about crime on the Hill. People probably think I’m paranoid, but there is a concerted effort to “control the narrative” by keeping criticism of “progressive” issues off social media. School closures, crime, critisism of IB DCPS, criticism of WTU, criticism of Charles Allen …