Civility: A how-to guide.

I think pretty much all of us here would consider ourselves reasonable people. Unfortunately, some of us would be wrong.

I think the problem is that there are a handful of troublemakers who set the rest of us off. I don't often read the Dean threads, and when I do I almost never comment, and never negatively. I consider myself a guest in those threads. And just as if I were a guest in your house, I would not want to do anything to make myself unwelcome. I'm sure most of the Dean and Kucinch people feel the same when reading a Clark thread. But, there persist that handful of troublemakers that go into threads of candidates they do not support solely to stir up some shit. I could name names.

I propose the following: We police our own. If you notice one of these troublemakers being an ass, and know him or her to be a supporter of your candidate, call that person on it. I have already begun to do this for my candidate. And let's not forget that unwarranted attacks reflect negatively on the candidate of the person doing the attacking. I owe it to my candidate to keep his supporters on the right path.

I hope this sounds reasonable to you all, and that you will help implement this as a sort of unofficial policy.

United, we stand - divided, we lose to bushco.

Please feel free to add your thoughts/recommendations.

I posted something similar on the lounge site. Unfortunately, I'm not proficient enough to cite it here but it's from me and it's about courtesy. I was too timid to post it here...right on to you!

The one we need to defeat is bush bush bush, rover rover rover,
dickhead cheney cheney cheney,

We need to stick together and defeat these tyrants

Thanks for posting.

...of the person doing the attacking."

So true!

I have been soured on a couple of candidates because of the nasty, junkyard dog tactics that their supporters used in DU to attack other Dem candidates.

Great post chaska!

</irony>

That one got me good. LOL

Unfortunately, I've also noticed that if there's no controversy there's no interest. This thread will die a quick death.

Somebody say somethin' nasty.

I'm troubled by some gratuitous nastiness (and not all of it election-related!) that I see here on DU. We can do better than that.

Civility on the candidate threads would be a great start. :toast: