What DU groups/boards do you stay away from?

[Critters2]

I just ventured into GD, and remembered why I don't do that more often. ARe there DU places you avoid?

[Debi]

1. I try to avoid the Lounge .... but it sucks me back in....

[RevCheesehead]

2. Religion and Theology.

It's like going to work, but in a hate-filled environment. :P

[Critters2]

4. Yeah, that's actually at the top of my list nt

[RevCheesehead]

6. Ironic, ain't it?

That two clergy have absolutely NO use for that place?! O8)

[Critters2]

7. It was the first group I checked out, for obvious reasons

I thought I'd find friends there. Oops! Almost made me leave DU altogether. Thank God (if I might use that term) for the progressive Christian group.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

11. R/T can be wicked funny, though.

"NOOO, you lying evil atheists!"

"NOOO, you stupid fairy-tale believers!"

And so on.

:rofl:

:eyes:

:rofl:

[NMMNG]

30. I stopped going there weeks ago

I got tired of the abuse.

[terrya]

3. I've never been to the Gun Forum

I hate guns. Therefore, what would be the point in going in there?

[Critters2]

8. Hmmm...I've never been there either nt

[Midlodemocrat]

20. Me neither and for the same reasons you state. I hate guns.

[nosillies]

5. R/T...great analogy, Rev!

And I'm getting really pissy with GD today.

[mainegreen]

9. Isreal/Palestine.

They dont make kevlar fire proof enough for me to go in there.

[Jamastiene]

14. God forbid one of us goes over there one day

and tries to negotiate peace. If it's anything like GD, they will demand you take sides and fight with them or else. :scared: I refuse to take sides in that war.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. I love to read R/T sometimes because it's so fucking stupid.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

But then again, I usually stay away from it, because it's so fucking stupid.

:D

[Jamastiene]

12. GD is like the sour apples club. It's a good thing they are separate from

us Loungers. I mean DU is normally a bastion of liberalism and not much hate mongering normally goes on here, but one of the few times I ventured over there to GD this past week ended up leaving a horrible taste in my mouth. Outright homophobia and some borderline racism tainted posts were apparent in that one thread. I don't get that bunch over there. :shrug:

GD is full of heathens anyhow. We REALLY are better than them. We have the loving spirit thing down pat over here. Over there, they still harbor grudges over flame wars that happened years ago. They say we should have the padded cells over here in the Lounge, but they are the ones that need padded cells and a nice tall barbed wire fence and a huge moat to keep their flames from burning down the place :evilgrin:

[RevCheesehead]

15. oh, come on now....

we have our fill of heathens over here, too.
But our heathens are nicer than theirs. :P

[Jamastiene]

16. Yep and more forgiving too.

Their heathens are downright scary. :scared:

[buddhamama]

17. i'm a product of both

GD and the Lounge. aren't i due for some kind of "special' status? what's a double heathen? :)

[RevCheesehead]

18. RNA?

or is that the double helix?

[buddhamama]

19. or *i* am

the boogieman?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

21. Well, I think that particular poster was one of these...

The posting history would be consistent with a troll.

[Jamastiene]

26. Yep.

And somehow they manage to get by with it.

[Left Is Write]

13. There are other boards?

[Bunny]

22. That Pets Group is pretty harsh. They're a rough crowd.

:scared:

[Lisa0825]

27. huh uh! we're nice! :-(

Just don't advocate declawing, dis the raw food diet, or admit you use any of the major mass-produced lines of pet food.

:evilgrin:

Even the Pets group gets some feisty debates going on now and then, but mostly we're sweethearts! :loveya:

[Bunny]

28. Yeah, you're sweethearts. Anyone who has pets has to be sweet!

I've actually not spent much time in that group - I didn't realize mass-produced lines of pet food were verboten, thanks for the heads up. But I'll agree with declawing being awful. Twenty five years ago I did that to my cat, out of sheer ignorance. I would never do that again, now that I know just how bad it is.

[bettyellen]

37. ha! did you catch that nasty poster who had her husband sock puppet his

support when people were calling her on being nasty? LOL. how sad is that?
imagine asking your spouse to pretend to be a total stranger.
someone was a little too aggressive selling that raw food diet.... they never came back to pets after that.

[Darth_Kitten]

34. I agree,.......they're a tough crowd.......

:)

[Lowell]

23. Religion and theology

I avoid that place like the plague. There is no room for debate. You're either with them or going to hell.

[RevCheesehead]

24. And, of course, "them"

refers to both sides. Go figure. :crazy:

[Lowell]

25. Just trying to be diplomatic

there is not tolerance over there for us infidels and heathens.

[Evoman]

29. New Age-y or Religious groups, and 9-11 group

The lack of critical thinking in those groups (especially the 9-11 one) has more than once made me questions my place here in DU.

[MikeH]

31. For me, definitely the Gun forum, or "Gungeon"

I have always been strongly in favor of gun control, and have supported groups like Sarah Brady's Handgun Control, and Mike Beard's Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.

For instance, I personally feel very strongly against the idea of Concealed Carry laws that allow practically anybody who wants to be able to legally carry a concealed handgun.

However I also realize that some people feel very strongly about being able to keep and bear arms, and being able to defend oneself. And a lot of people are gun enthusiasts. And from looking at the gun forum on DU I saw that I had to accept that that includes a lot of people of Democratic and liberal persuasion, and not just right wing nuts.

I have very strong feelings about the matter, but I also realize that other people of different persuasion from myself have equally strong feelings. And I recognize that I do not think I can hold my own in a discussion with somebody who feels very strongly about keeping and bearing arms, or with somebody who is a gun enthusiast.

That being the case, I think it has been better for me to completely avoid the gun forum.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

32. Definitely the Cooking & Baking Group

That place is fierce. It makes R/T and I/P look like Kindergarten :D

[applegrove]

33. Anything with freepers. Just makes me so sad.

[annonymous]

35. I stay away from most of them except the Lounge and LBN.

I sometimes lurk in General Discussion but never post there. I avoid almost all DU groups, except the Maryland one and only go there ocaissonally.

[wildhorses]

36. I try to stay away from the high dive board cos MAN

it is scary up there:scared:

[Mutley]

38. I do a lot of reading in GD, but I don't post there often.

Other than the Lounge, I only post in the Maryland forum. I'll also venture into a few of the groups on occasion.