Suggestion for DU in time of "war" meaning right now.

[usonian]

Does anyone think that DU should be closed to non-members, as it was for server overload, to keep magats out? Perhaps they could be a public forum for sharing with "anyone".

Just a thought.

I copy and email posts to friends and relatives anyway.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. We need a wartime consigliere!

Tom, you're not a wartime consigliere...

[wolfie001]

6. lol

[keepthemhonestO]

2. I've

Definitely been thinking big making the same suggestion.

[thinkingagain]

3. So would that be?

Currently registered members?
star members only?
and how would you join if you are not currently a member whether it’s a star member or a regular member?

[Mr.WeRP]

4. Making your bubble smaller and tighter isn't a solution

If you can’t manifest a rational argument against propaganda, how do you expect the party to be able to manage in the world of disinformation? Turtelling up isn’t the answer you think it is. In fact, it’s what the fascists want.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Folks are worried

About organizing.

[Mr.WeRP]

12. From my perspective, there is little organizing going on here

I belong to a local organization that does actually do stuff. Trump isn’t going to gain any strategic advantage by having his minions read DU.

[osteopath6]

5. I'm not worried about Magas

I care more about working with my party to move forward. That includes engaging with the other side. Of course that doesn't need to happen here, policy isn't made online, but hiding from dissent isn't something I personally care to do.

I'd rather address it. The crap they say is usually easily refuted, at least in the eyes of an objective third party. The silent sorts who account for 99% of the voting population

[stopdiggin]

7. in 'war time' people lose freedoms

I don't think I'm willing to venture to such a place voluntarily ..... And further - I don't see any real strong evidence that DU is being inundated with outsiders (or antithetical influence). Decent moderation (which I think is in place) seems adequate to whatever concerns there might be out there.

[Basso8vb]

8. I lurked here for 12 years before creating an account in 2016.

And only started posting here this year.

This has been my first stop every day since 2004 and I get nearly all my news from the links posted here daily by local users and have never been more informed in my life. I've been a registered voter since 1989.

Many people like myself have been reading the posts of the most prolific DU contributors for years and hold many of you in high regard. We also miss the great posters who are no longer with us.

I think it would be a tremendous mistake to circle the wagons just because times have gotten tough. Many silent lurkers depend on DU as a source of news and community. That would also cause potential new users not to have the opportunity to discover this Oasis in the desolate hellscape of the current internet.

I trust the MIRT team to keep this a place of civil discourse and I urge people to use that block feature as well.

I'm a fighter for Team Blue until my last breath.

[usonian]

11. OK, I doubt that VERY many people lurk to see "the opposite shore". I did, and you did, but we're not "average"

A public forum might be the answer, or how about the opposite?

Closing the activist hq forum and perhaps some of the more personal ones, to be members-only. (then we get fly-by-night new members. Oh well)

I am a mostly trusting person but grew up in a (redacted) east coast city and when my Dad ran for City Council, I saw the "spies" at meetings.

No biggie. Those days were obviously before ANY connectivity existed other than telephones and the local newspaper.

Just throwing some ideas out there for discussion.

[Basso8vb]

13. I'm talking about fellow Dems as they won't be able to find us, either.

Retreating into the darkness does nobody any good.

[usonian]

14. Well, the suggestion included a public area.

But perhaps just the strategic and personal ones would suffice to be members only, but membership is free and easy.

I just hope that some really bad character doesn't use the info. I see how data brokers work, and it ain't pretty.

[Biophilic]

10. Maybe we should just get better at politely calling people out.

Or just acknowledging that we intend to ignore them. We gain nothing from letting them suck us into arguments.