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DonkeyDude said 04/25, 03:43 PM
This is not a debate. Please do not accept it. I will remove it after a couple of days. I just want to try to quell some of the craziness that has taken place on this board over the last few days.

A lot of these debates have gotten fairly personal, and a lot of people are understandably upset. Some people feel as though they've been ganged up on, and some people are presumably on this site just to incite trouble. I do not deny that I've contributed to this, and I've made my peace with (most of) those whom I've gone after.

Let's try to put all of that behind us and get back to the reason that 98% of us signed onto this site in the first place: lively debate about politics. Let's not post topics whose sole purpose is to bash other users.

Let's not create 30 accounts and vote for ourselves (or anyone else) many times just to d*ck somebody over.

We're all here for the same reason, so let's be mature and refocus all this energy and keep it about the issues.

With respect to voting fraud: It sucks. But let's stop reacting so strongly (posting comments, etc). It's done to get a rise out of you. Don't give the culprit the satisfaction of getting all up in arms.

Thanks for listening.

DonkeyDude said 04/25, 09:23 PM
No, you are confused.

I do not LIKE debating the people you just named (other than POST, whom I look forward to debating at some point). I never said that they were all the same person (I do not think that, but I have had my suspicions about one or two), and I never said those people were all here to cause trouble.

My "98%" comment was not literal. I meant to suggest that I assume that all but a couple of us are here for legitimate purposes. It is painfully obvious that there has been some vote manipulation on this site, which - in conjunction with the craziness that ensued - is why I posted this statement. I do not purport to know who is the culprit, although I would point out that just because the vote manipulation benefits User A, it does not mean that User A is the culprit. My statement was a call to return to fairness and civility.

I interpret both the fact and the essence of your "rebuttal" above as a rejection of that call, but that is your prerogative.