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we get it, he sucks, take a different path....he's not worth our energy

Musk, tired of pundits who post about Trumps latest blather. Tired of smirks while insinuating Biden is being insulted. Jonathon LeMire!None true.

Tired of MSNBC ranting about Trump. Especially Scarborough praising his time in the Senate, completely ignoring the fact he was in the front row to impeach Clinton, ignoring the fact he had Trump on the phone day after day when others had cut him off. Our dear friend Donald became that awful man when he exposed her face lift and their affair.

That is what they are there for. No, I don't enjoy the repetition of the same annoying content either, but when it gets to more than a casual irritation, then I use the KEYWORD TRASH FEATURE. It takes a few seconds to find it and learn how to use it. Meanwhile, the thread after thread after thread (and polls) bemoaning it are becoming even MORE irritating.

For those who just can't figure it out: Go to "My Account," Trashcan, and then enter MUSK or whatever is the current annoyance.

My question is, if (right now) 95% of DUers don't want to see all these messages about Musk, why do people keep posting them? For some nonexistent internet clout? How about people learn that we don't want to see half the front page with shit about Musk? People that live on his every breath are going to already know any news about him and the 95% of us that don't, don't want to hear that shit.

How about people read the room? If someone is asking 95% of DU to put their posts on ignore, maybe that's a sign that person should be the one to change their ways, HMM?

deal with the problem You can post complaining posts day in and day out but that is only adding to the problem. A single post showing the features that are available to address this issue--as I took the time to do-- on the other hand can help with the problem. Unless of course you just want it to continue.

Because there will still people here that don't use that function and will still be forced to wade through 50% Musk "look-at-me!" threads.

I did this poll because I wanted to know where other DUers stood on the subject. They also seem to hate the constant topics about Musk. Why should 95% of DU change for 5%?

disagree with your slanted poll question simply won't bother to vote. As I didn't. But you already refused to listen to another DUer who pointed this out, so you probably won't listen to me, either.

I think it's a safe bet that most DUers see a lot of threads here every day that they aren't personally interested in. But most DUers, thank God, don't feel everyone else has to go along with their ideas of what is or isn't worth posting about.

Just skip the threads you don't find interesting. Just skim past them. No one here is forced to read any thread. It takes just a second to skim a thread title and decide if it interests you.

If people lose interest in posts about Musk and Twitter, they won't stay on the first page long and won't make it to the Greatest page. They'll slip out of sight. If they don't, then I hope you will accept that DUers have different interests.

Which IMO is a good thing.

So, 90% of DU don't want to see Musk posts.

And people have lost interest in them. Ever check the DU Recs or views on your Musk posts?

Enjoy stuffing people into your divisive bag of "Musk lovers".

It's an ill fit, but for some reason it seems to satisfy you.

Now, do you have a poll that shows DUers want to hear constant Musk news?

they generally knock this OP's into a cocked hat.

If you're curious what my "better things" might be, my journal gives some clues. FWIW, a proportion of them include Twitter content, a very few concern Musk, and some of them got quite a large number of recs.

And while we're in the business of making comparisons, I notice your journal is blank.

I read DU for news and to participate in political discussion.

Unfortunately, lately the news has been crowded out by the inundation of Musk posts because some apparently think we give a damn about his childish "look at me!" antics and I'm glad to see that the majority of DU agrees with me.

I have since trashed learned how to trash the words "Elon" and "Musk" so I no longer have to see that crap, but I'm sure many others won't and will still be subject to non-news news regarding the newest narcissist inflicted upon our lives.

You keep clinging to that theory. I guess it must help. I think highplainsdem's replies clearly blew your arguments out of the water on seas of your own choosing, but whatever.

Rather than wasting any more time pointlessly, I'll just refer you to an earlier exchange that has this issue amply covered: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17474067

...you would vote in a poll that proves your numbers.

And yet you don't.

And the latest Musk post from one of the most prolific Musk posters has around 11 DU Recs and most of the replies are saying they are tired of hearing about him.

So, yes, I will happily take my poll that shows ~70 DUers (90%+) are sick of it and will continue to say that "the majority of DU agrees with me" in that WE ARE TIRED OF HEARING ABOUT THAT NARCISSISTIC FUCKER.

11 recs is a heck of a lot more than this OP got, so I don't know why you insist on fighting on losing ground.

And constantly classing any of us who are vociferously objecting to Musk on a regular basis as the "pro-Musk crowd" shows more about you than you may be willing to admit to yourself.

And since you've supposedly now belatedly found the blocklist feature after being on the site since 2006, how did you see that OP anyway?! Did you hunt it out? Weird.

No need to reply.

Done.

So, rather than participate in it and prove that theory, you just skip it and try to pretend that there are tons of pro-Musk people around here that are just refusing to vote, but if they did, oh, would we see an overwhelming number of DUers that just looooove to hear about Musk's every move!

Yeah, there's ZERO indication that is the case.

EDIT: And since I only recently learned about the "Trash Can" feature, I would love to point out that the (I'm sure) many people that have trashed the words "Elon" and "Musk" -- like I now have -- would not have even seen this thread to vote in, but I bet I know which option they would choose!

Seriously.

There are other things in life. But you want to continue to bang on about Musk and your stupid poll when you've supposedly blocklisted the subject, as anyone else who's fed up of it is absolutely free to do, that's your choice.

You're now on ignore. so you can carry on posting into the void as far as I care.

your poll. I'd guess a lot of them would be rolling their eyes, too, at someone trying to stop others from posting what interests them.

All I did was do a poll to see if the majority of DU felt like I did -- and they do. Aside from all these pro-Musk readers that apparently don't want to vote in the poll, because, uh, """reasons."""

You be sure to check in with me in the future with those DU Recs on those posts. I also used to read them and even DU Rec. And then it became obvious it was just a blatant narcissist eating up media time and purposefully trying to get attention, which some DUers seemed all too happy to give him and amplify his bullshit. I, like many other DUers, have since grown tired of his shit and, apparently, the constant posts about him.

I took someone's advice and put "Elon" and "Musk" on my trashed words list since some around here can't read the room and would prefer to post an onslaught of non-news regarding him and his childish antics. It cleared up the forum for me, but not for others that still have to wade through that garbage.

attention. If you want to try to pretend they don't exist, go right ahead.

I used it to shield me from two useless twits that some people here are overly enamored with for some reason. I cannot recommend it highly enough, two thumbs up.

Way before he ran for president.

i’m not a big tweeter, but i have friends there, and appreciate the news i find there that doesnt even make it here.
but there r a lot of folks there who feel the same way most of us here feel about du.
marginalized groups have spaces of their own there. disabled ppl who connect there cuz they cant irl.

it’s a shit storm atm, but it is still in flux. we’ll see how it shakes out.

meanwhile, i am truly bothered by the hate here on ppl who r just readers there.
ppl who r on there to promote themselves should stand back. but those of us who use it for the connections, we arent hurting anything. and a lot of us are resisting- blocking ads, blocking trolls, and generally gumming up the works.

and i thought the fb shaming was bad…

I simply ignore it, so it doesn't bother me a whit. Neither would I presume to be such an authority as to decide which post, that follow the forum rules, are worthy of posting and which are not.

... actually useful and informative content and discussion rather than minute-by-minute updates of a narcissist desperately seeking the attention that these people inundating this forum with posts about him are giving him.

I did this poll to see if I was alone in my thinking.

I'm glad to see I'm very much NOT.

does not mean we agree with you.

I'm glad that the VAST MAJORITY of DU feels like I do and would prefer this to remain Democratic Underground and not The Life of Elon Musk.

You would think everyone that gives him so much attention would have learned from Trump how you treat a narcissist, but I guess not. You don't give them the attention they crave, especially over blatantly stupid "look at me!" stunts.

I'll count you as the pro-Musk crowd -- congrats, that makes maybe 8% of you that care about his every move. The other 92% of us don't give a shit and are tired of hearing about it.

weed out everyone else. No "don't care either way" option. And the people who are concerned about what Musk is doing aren't likely to waste time voting in a poll designed to get people who agree with you to vent.

It is not biased phrasing.

Furthermore, even if it were, judging from how negativity seems to motivate people more than positivity, I'm sure if the poll were seen as negative by the Musk lovers around here, they would love to, ahem, inundate the poll results to show that their Musk posts are just loved around here.

But they're not.

And regarding what Musk is doing -- no shit. That's why people have been saying to leave him and his cesspool that he has turned Twitter into and take their social media usage elsewhere. He is past the point where he is surprising people by his actions. If someone isn't well aware he is a narcissistic fascist-enabler in the same vein as Trump, LUCKY THEM BECAUSE IT MEANS THEY HAVEN'T BEEN INUNDATED WITH CONSTANT STORIES ABOUT HIS STUPID ASS. But odds are, that's not the case. People know who he is by now. We don't need dozens and dozens of posts each day, cluttering up the front page and sucking up all the oxygen from much more legitimate discussions to confirm it.

OK, that oversteps the mark.

If you bothered to check out my journal or any of my past posts, you'd see that you're utterly wrong.

Enjoy your poll. It means nothing.

Which is why it seems like we're being inundated. It's the same thing with other subjects, though. Trump's antics, for instance. Don't people scroll down before they post, to see if somebody else has already posted on the subject?

don't obsess over this guy
Thats what he wants
He can never be President
let it go.

DU likes to spend much of it's collective time talking about people it does want to hear or care about.

I have just accepted this is the way it is.

From hijacking a major social media platform to spread hate and nationalistic jingoism? Well I guess so.
Now hold my beer while I plunge my head into the sand.

We all realize the person Musk is and what he's done to Twitter -- some of us are even smart enough to fucking leave the cesspool that he has made it and not given him the usage and attention he so craves! We don't need dozens of stories about what new shitty thing he has done to the platform. We know. It will get even shittier. He will do even more fucked up "look at me!" bullshit because that's what narcissists of his nature do. It's not news.

Just wondering: do you frequent whatever the fuck that social media platform that Trump created is called? Or do you see why it would make sense not to give traffic and usage to his platform in a way you apparently do not see for Twitter? Because Trump's platform is his, just like Twitter's platform is Musk's. That's just the facts. It doesn't matter what Twitter once was -- it's not that now. And it's not up to you to fight some internet war for the viability of Twitter or whatever it is you think you are doing -- Musk owns Twitter. He will own Twitter. You giving it (and thus, him) the traffic and usage it needs to remain viable is not helping your cause, period. Driving ELON MUSK'S TWITTER into the fucking ground and forcing him to sell it through bankruptcy, hopefully to people that actually give a damn about its importance as a social media platform as you do, that would be ideal. But odds are, he'd just sell it to some of his new fascist rightwing buddies. Either way, odds are it will remain a cesspool that he's turned it into and you nor anyone else is going to change that as long as he is the owner.

If this were something of consequence, involving an intellectual discussion or some kind of life changing experience, that would be one thing. But it is a silly social media network among dozens of networks and a waste of time to care what happens to it.

So yeah. I do want to know what’s going on.

There, you know what's going on.

Yet here we are talking about the fascist activity year after year.

There are some very good things being done in politics -- almost exclusively by our Democrats, of course. And there are some shit-show-related news that should be reported on. But at this point, do you really care about every little move Trump makes or every little insult he throws at someone or every little new post he makes on his social media page? Or the same for Musk? They are the shittiest, bottom-of-the-barrel types and everyone should know this by now. Living on every breath they take and breathlessly reporting it back here on DU serves no purpose. We all -- or we all SHOULD know -- that they are shitty human beings. As bad as they are today, they will only get worse. They are also narcissists, so they love starting shit and getting people to amplify it and give them the attention they crave. Some of the shit they start is newsworthy -- most is not.

But I am glad to see the vast majority of DU agrees with me and """hates""" the constant onslaught of Musk "look at me!" stories from the select few that insist on posting them.

As others have pointed out, the immense majority of DU doesn't care enough about the issue to bother to vote. Feel how you will; people will keep posting news about Musk which can complain about at your leisure.

Can you show me a poll here that received that many votes?

I'll wait.

If you think this site just looooooves having non-news news of Musk take up half the front page, I don't know what to tell you. This poll is just one evidence point. The people in those threads saying they are sick of hearing about Musk is another. I'd love to have DU admin tell us what some of the most common Trash Can words are, since I'm guessing you would find "Elon" and "Musk" right up there as well.

since it seems to matter so much to you.

It was this GD post here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217474114

I'll copy and paste its text and the replies for convenience and since your belated blockwords now mean you won't see it otherwise.

...the types of discussion that can be posted in this particular forum.

And I'm not saying that it is wrong or against TOS to inundate this forum with non-news news about Musk and his latest narcissistic behavior; I said that most of us are tired of hearing about it. He's going to turn Twitter into an even bigger shit show. Today is worse than yesterday and tomorrow will be worse than today. I learned the same thing with a similar narcissist (Trump). It's not going to get better -- it's going to get worse. And most of the "getting worse" part is not newsworthy, because anyone with two brain cells will have already realized the path he has put that platform on. It's just more "look at me!" stunts to get attention that he wants and, unfortunately, some here on DU just love to give him.

...and the ~70 DUers that voted they do not like the inundation of Musk posts on this board spoke for themselves.

The *7* DUers that voted just love Musk posts spoke for themselves.

And anyone and everyone is free to vote in the poll or speak for themselves, for themselves.

And yet I'm hearing much more anti-Musk posts than pro-Musk posts. That's not speaking for them, once again, that's reading the room.

About Trump, lake or mtg.

It's not hard to skip over threads I'm not interested in. It's a technique others could try. It's similiar to the advice I give those who bitch about MSM. Don't watch it .