Shut Discussionist down!...

[Ms. Toad]

259. This thread is advocating shutting down a separate discussion board.

My point is that no one is trashing DU and calling DU to be shut down because of similar behavior by individual members here, and similar responses of shutting the accounts of those individuals down.

I don't think EarlG's response was particularly helpful (I often find both his and Skinner's responses to misogyny less enlightened than I would like), but he didn't suggest she brought the threats on herself - what he suggest was that he didn't think complaints about it belong on DU. I agree with that - if the point of the complaints as it was in at least 2 threads - is to trash discussionist.

I would like the admins (both here and on discussionist) to be more proactive than they are when there are actual threats of violence. When they have been asked on DU, in response to death threat guy stalking DU members off-site - meaning he had some connection to who they were in real life, the admins pretty much threw their hands up. They indicated they had tried in the past, and had not been successful. I don't think that is a reason to stop trying, when there are specific threats.

But I don't think the admins failure to take further action is any more a reason to shut discussionist down (the topic of this thread) than it is to shut DU down.

And I don't think trashing discussionist belongs on DU (or vice versa). They are separate sites. If you want advice as to how to handle individual threats (whatever the source) - asking for community advice is completely appropriate (As BainsBane did). If you are using the bad actions of an individual member of discussionist to continue a campaign on DU to sabotage discussionist, that is where I draw the line.