(11-14-2016 03:22 PM)EagleX Wrote:  

(11-14-2016 03:17 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  I always found it mildly amusing that a site which, by design, is the biggest echo chamber on the web calls itself "democratic" anything.

indeed. over at DU, there are literally hundreds of things that you can't say, or you'll get mobbed by a horde of hissing metrosexuals and hysterical girls.

and the admins don't even mod their own site; there is this jury thingy, where randomly selected complete strangers do it for them. in additional to being anti-democratic, it's run by lazy asses.

It's not the mobbing that I mind, at all... It's the fact they ban anyone not in line.

(11-14-2016 03:23 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  

(11-14-2016 03:22 PM)EagleX Wrote:  

(11-14-2016 03:17 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  I always found it mildly amusing that a site which, by design, is the biggest echo chamber on the web calls itself "democratic" anything.

indeed. over at DU, there are literally hundreds of things that you can't say, or you'll get mobbed by a horde of hissing metrosexuals and hysterical girls.

and the admins don't even mod their own site; there is this jury thingy, where randomly selected complete strangers do it for them. in additional to being anti-democratic, it's run by lazy asses.

It's not the mobbing that I mind, at all... It's the fact they ban anyone not in line.

well, first there is the mob. then the hysteria. then the righteous indignation. then someone gets accused of some sinister "ism" or another.

then they ban them. but, yeah. we're not disagreeing.

(11-14-2016 03:22 PM)EagleX Wrote:  

(11-14-2016 03:17 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  I always found it mildly amusing that a site which, by design, is the biggest echo chamber on the web calls itself "democratic" anything.

indeed. over at DU, there are literally hundreds of things that you can't say, or you'll get mobbed by a horde of hissing metrosexuals and hysterical girls.

and the admins don't even mod their own site; there is this jury thingy, where randomly selected complete strangers do it for them. in additional to being anti-democratic, it's run by lazy asses.

True all that, but dammit, I wanted to witness the massive meltdown and we all know it would have been of biblical proportions.

(11-14-2016 03:52 PM)TechRocks Wrote:  

(11-14-2016 03:22 PM)EagleX Wrote:  

(11-14-2016 03:17 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  I always found it mildly amusing that a site which, by design, is the biggest echo chamber on the web calls itself "democratic" anything.

indeed. over at DU, there are literally hundreds of things that you can't say, or you'll get mobbed by a horde of hissing metrosexuals and hysterical girls.

and the admins don't even mod their own site; there is this jury thingy, where randomly selected complete strangers do it for them. in additional to being anti-democratic, it's run by lazy asses.

True all that, but dammit, I wanted to witness the massive meltdown and we all know it would have been of biblical proportions.

I must confess, I was quite disappointed, as well.

Quote:UPDATE MONDAY 11/14/2016 3:00PM ET

Over the weekend we announced that DU would hopefully be back up on Monday or Tuesday. At this point we are very optimistic that the site will be back up on Tuesday afternoon. When DU comes back up, access will be granted to Star Members only on a temporary basis. For more information about this, please see the update below.

Thanks again for your patience and understanding -- see you all soon.

It really couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of jackholes.

still hosed. I'm beginning to wonder how long the malefactor had access to their servers. it seems as though every time they look under the next rock, they find another set of problems.

if the DU guys were clueless enough, they may not have noticed that they had been compromised until the hacker actually wanted them to notice that they had been compromised.

I wonder how many backdoors where installed while the hacker was logged-in as Administrator?

(11-15-2016 11:28 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  I wonder how many backdoors where installed while the hacker was logged-in as Administrator?

and how long ago they did it... Some programmers / engineers just don't put on the security hat.

lol. now they're using the hack to squeeze more money out of their emotionally overwrought members; you can't get in right now unless you become a premium member -- oh, and, it just so happens, the functionality to purchase a premium membership is one of those things that is miraculously restored.

for gooey, oozing liberals, they sure are money grubbing bastards.