DU General Election Season Begins Soon: What You Need To Know

[MADem]

504. "Providing content?" That seems like a high handed way of saying

"Tossed my lousy opinion into the fray." Of course, that's only because the term "content provider" has come to mean anyone who rips off journalists by paraphrasing their junk and intermingling it with a strong dose of personal opinion and sometimes invective.

Come off it--this is a DISCUSSION board. The admins provide us the platform upon which we are allowed to have our little discussions.

If you think your "content" is so valuable, take it somewhere and SELL it. Far be it from any one of us to prevent you from getting full value for your opinings!

You've been here for seven years, and you've only "provided content" a couple of hundred times in all that time. I don't think the site will be in make or break territory if you choose to read and be silent.

It costs money to run a site. I'm grateful the admins are doing this work. I think they are worthy of their hire, they deserve to be able to make a living. and I don't begrudge them. I have seen DU go through many iterations since I found this place right after Gore wuz robbed, and I've stuck with it down the years because it's a good place to have a nice conversation. I'm not going to get off my ass and create a site for that purpose, so I'm glad someone else did. This place, too, is well laid out, easy to read, and easy to input. It's idiot proof, and that's all right with me, too.