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In reply to the discussion: After 10 years, I've never seen DU as crazy as it is right now. [View all]Warpy
(111,261 posts)but it was a slightly different flavor of crazy, especially late in the year after the crash and before the election.
Not only had the Hillary War of 2008 been fought in GD-P, the stock market had tanked and everybody lucky enough to have a career instead of a job saw his 401K turn into a 201K. Other people with either career or job lost their livelihoods as panicky people cut their own throats by dumping employees. We were in the middle of two huge and unwinnable wars and people were shrieking about what a terrible mistake it would be to run either Clinton or Obama as their gender and race made both unelectable.
People often complained that moderators were arbitrary but it was better than having bullies alert on dozens of posts a day, hoping to get lucky with juries. That has to be changed, especially in protected forums. Has. to. be.
And no, it's not what DU is supposed to be about and it won't get sane again for another 14 months.
Shitcanning GD-P is a good first step to eliminating the worst of it. Eliminating individual candidate forums will also help. GD itself is reasonably civil without them.
Or you can hide out in Cooking & Baking for the duration.