Civility: A how-to guide.

[chaska]

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.

[Raven]

1. Hello!

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!

[Shrek]

4. Here's a link to your thread

Courtesy... and my new resolutions. Any one else care to join me?

[Parche]

2. I Agree

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

[clar]

3. Excellent

Thanks for posting.

[JaneQPublic]

5. "attacks reflect negatively on the candidate...

...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.

[DEMActivist]

6. Get back up there!

Great post chaska!

[Brian Sweat]

7. Yeah, well who asked you?

</irony>

[chaska]

8. Ha!!!

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.

[CBHagman]

9. Thanks for doing this.

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.

[sybylla]

10. Thanks for saying it, Chaska

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