Slow day at DU? 14 OPs on the Landrieu/ACORN pimp's arrest on the Greatest page. WTF?

[Fly by night]

There is a reason why the DU moderators encourage us to check to see if the same topic has already been posted before posting it again (and again and again and again .... X 14.)

Slow day at DU or .... what?

[ck4829]

Maybe it's an awesome story

I wouldn't mind seeing a hundred posts on this.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. So? Hide 13 of them...

:shrug:

[alstephenson]

2. You actually counted the posts???

Slow day for Fly by night...

[Fly by night]

6. It didn't take long. 14 OPs were posted in the last 90 minutes.

So it took about a minute to count 'em.

I wish it were a slow day here. Seldom is. But thanks for caring.

[CJCRANE]

3. Only 14?

[JBoy]

4. I'll unrec your OP so it doesn't become #15.

[Turbineguy]

5. Maybe we just need

some good news for a change.

[Fly by night]

8. Now that could be.

As for me, I'd prefer 14 separate pieces of good news than the same good news 14 times.

Makes this forum look a bit desperate for good news, doncha think?

(Of course, that could be.)

[alstephenson]

19. Um, we ARE desperate for good news...

[elocs]

7. If good citizens check for duplicates, there are precious few good citizens here.

Everyone seems to think they have the most wise and clever things to post that nobody has ever thought of before. News is not news at DU unless it gets posted 4 times the day it happens and then for the next 3 days.

[Fly by night]

12. Four times, ok. Fourteen times, a bit much.

But you're right. There is a tendancy to prefer to be the OPer than just a respondent to a post.

It's hard work sitting on our hands sometimes.

[elocs]

20. This is just the daily DU obsession. There must always be one.

How about when we get buried in Palin threads?

[katandmoon]

9. Like anybody did for the talk show wars shit?

[Capers]

10. Recommended.

[malaise]

11. This deserves maximum coverage

That is all

[bigwillq]

13. That topic deserves all of the recs and post.

I hope this story doesn't just blow over. It, imo, deserves serious attention.

[Bolo Boffin]

14. This is what a depressed base looks like.

When something like this happens, as awesome as it is, a depressed base will overplay it. We needed a reminder of the kind of political influence we're resisting in this country.

[malaise]

24. This moron nearly destroyed Acorn

ReTHUGS had no problem giving him coverage 24/7. We haven't begun to overplay this.

[Bolo Boffin]

27. Just referring to the 14 threads in a hour on the subject

I'm loving the whole story myself. I made up the term Teabuggers already.

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[Malikshah]

16. Nothing slow at all-- This criminal activity is too similar to the Troopergate bullshit

of the 90s.

The frikking media beyond Olbermann and Maddow better get their journalistic balls/ovaries in place and call it what it is.

Time for some good old blood letting.

[VOX]

17. Oh-oh, Board Nanny is counting posts and reporting 'em! Quick, look busy!

Of late, how often has DU had something to crow about? Why the need to play Board Nanny?

Why not just let everyone run with it? Are the additional threads causing you serious pain or inconvenience? :shrug:

[JI7]

18. i don't think 14 is enough , i hope there are more

[blogslut]

21. So?

It's big news. ACORN is a great organization that was demonized by this little jerk's BS "sting".

[spanone]

22. 15 including yours?

[TexasObserver]

23. Some posters must have ahem a thread with their name as the OP.

It doesn't matter if there are 50 threads up, all about the same thing, there are a half dozen posters who must start THEIR thread, because no other person's thread will do.

[Fly by night]

25. Thanks. Instead of concentrating information (and discussion) on a story on a few OPs, ...

... we dilute it across 20+ OPs on the same topic (which this topic now has on the Greatest page.)

I haven't seen this sort of duplicative frenzy here before, and I've been here for over five years. I think one of the comments above explains it well -- this is what a depressed base looks (and acts) like.

Never been called a Board Nanny here before either, but whatever. Now to move on to another forum, 'cause the news here is looking pretty repetitive and recycled here.

[TexasObserver]

26. Yes, I never cease to marvel at how many threads one topic can generate.

There will be five threads, all based upon the same news article, on the first page at the same time. I am confident when I say that some posters NEVER look at the board before they start posting threads. Hey, it's not about the news. It's about them.

I share your disdain for the overcoverage of topics, but some posters are obsessively, compulsively driven to start threads with their name as the OP.

[Stinky The Clown]

28. Recommend

:thumbsup: