Please: Use the alert button early and often.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

So, our "friends" at Faux N00z have deigned to mention us. As is appropriate, we now expect trollish infestations to bloom like a thousand flowers. Yippee. :eyes:

Look, my father always told me "Never match wits with a half-wit". He was right. When one of these slugs shows up and makes their failed attempt at cleverness, please hit the alert button. Do not succumb to the urges of the visceral.

In that way, we let BMcLH, Cube and the other mods know we love them long time.

But only in a pure, unsullied and uncheapened way. ;-)

[Bouncy Ball]

1. Yep.

Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with their experience at it.

The alert button is your friend.

BTW, where did FUX news mention us?

(I think that's good. A lot of Dems find us that way, too.)

[smbolisnch]

2. They are getting ready to talk about it now after the commercial.

Turn on now if you wanna see :eyes: I haven't seen it yet either....

[Not_Giving_Up]

4. They made us look like the tin-foil hat brigade

Of course!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2906219

They pick the looniest tune in the bunch!

[Pirate Smile]

5. The earthquake crap. Somebody thought underground nuke testing

might have caused it - or asked if it could. Of course, people said no and explained why but why report the responses that deal with facts, corrections, links to scientific resources, etc.

[Midlodemocrat]

25. Unfortunately,

some of the Arab newspapers, radios, etc have also reported that the earthquake was the result of nuclear testing by America/Israel/India. I happened to catch it at lunch on the local news, but I had it on mute, so I didn't catch all of it.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

3. I take it as a badge of honor

that those asswipes mentioned us-we must be getting to them. Be merciless with trolls, gang! And don't argue with those idiots, they'll just take you down to their level and beat you with experience. Just report them to our very cool mods.

[KurtNYC]

6. No doubt they read the NYTimes story

cheaper than doing their own 'journalism'.

[Jesus H. Christ]

7. They're going to be posting a lot of conspiracy/pseudoscience stuff.

Which is allowed by DU rules. So I think it's going to be more productive to debunk it. The problem with that "bones of the earth" thread was that not enough people called bullshit.

[Bouncy Ball]

8. I won't watch FUX news

they are to TV what the National Enquirer is to magazines.

Secondly, I see nothing wrong with asking questions, checking things out. If they read the WHOLE thread they saw some very intelligent conversation regarding how we don't HAVE the technology to build a nuke big enough to case a 9.0 earthquake.

BUT of course they have to be sensationalistic and yella.

People who watch FUX want their propaganda served warm and runny!

[Jo March]

9. Alert on them early so we don't get stuck with them

any longer than we have to.

[achtung_circus]

10. Don't get into a battle of wits

with an unarmed man.

[Minstrel Boy]

11. Oh yes, please - let's eat our own for the amusement

of Sean Hannity's fanbase.

I use the alert function, and I'm glad it's there. But let's be careful about not stifling free speech in a big tent because we're askeerd of the big bad Fox.

[ChairOne]

16. LOL - and everyone here bitched about how Kerry didn't stand up...

... and speak out against shit...

And practically the whole DU has turned into a bunch of wusses cuz they're scared of media scrutiny...

Sheesh... one has to wonder whether Kerry let DU down, or vice-versa...

LOL - scared of the media - that's rich.

[Jesus H. Christ]

19. No, let's slay the trolls.

The most prominent tsunami conspiracy poster turned out to be a troll and was banned.

[Minstrel Boy]

23. "turned out to be a troll and was banned"

Without second-guessing the mods, is there evidence the poster was a troll? People get tombstoned for other reasons, and disruption is sometimes not the intended consequence of their actions.

[Midlodemocrat]

20. Don't worry about that, Minstrel Boy

Just because you hit alert doesn't mean instant nuke. The collective mods have to come to a consensus. Your hitting the alert button gives us a heads up in a thread that we perhaps didn't see.

Thanks.

[Cuban_Liberal]

12. Please, do as Tandalayo_Scheisskopf says.

We're ready for 'em, and you can help us the MOST by simply hitting 'Alert', and avoid calling them out. Thank you, Tandalayo_Scheisskopf!

:thumbsup:

[Swamp Rat]

13. Actually, this may present us with the opportunity to debunk propaganda

for more of the brainwashed masses. At least someone might read something DIFFERENT for a change, whether they like it or not.

[Cuban_Liberal]

14. kick n/t

[Cuban_Liberal]

15. kick n/t

[ArkDem]

17. The narc button is disabled on my pc.

[Midlodemocrat]

18. If you are match wits with a nitwit

you are fighting an unarmed man.


Kick for the lunch crowd.

[aeolian]

21. Alert when someone posts sarcasm

That'll keep the right-wingers out.

(Aeolian is a tad offended that his first new thread in months was "alerted." I must be a half-wit and a freeper...you know, the kind of freeper who has never voted republican. Sheesh!)

[Cuban_Liberal]

22. Kick n/t

[BlueFlu]

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These are the kind folks who helped bring us "Outfoxed", and offer daily debunking of the VRWC's favorite unreality TV show...

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[Cuban_Liberal]

26. Reminder kick n/t

[Blue_Tires]

27. OP has been 'lerted

J/K