The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate supporter groups are live!
This discussion thread was locked by Skinner (a host of the Announcements group).
As promised in my earlier post, today we are launching new groups for supporters of the various 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.
We believe that supporters of the various Democratic presidential candidates appreciate having safe spaces where they can interact with their fellow supporters and post positive messages about their their preferred candidates. Our hope and intent is that these groups be used to positively support members' favored democratic candidates rather than to attack other candidates.
With this in mind, we have created special functionality for the 2020 candidate the groups:
+ All 2020 candidate groups can be found under the Democrats 2020 category on the left-hand side of any page.
+ All candidate groups have a small banner at the top of the group and at the top of all threads in that group containing text indicating that you are viewing a candidate group.
+ Only members who have selected a candidate as their favorite are able to post in the group for that preferred candidate.
+ If you change your favored candidate, you need to wait seven days before you are eligible to post in that candidate's group. (This is to discourage supporters of other candidates from temporarily changing their candidate preference in order to post disruptive messages in groups for candidates they do not support.)
+ If you select a particular candidate as your favorite, you will see threads from that candidate's supporter group on your Latest Page and Greatest Page. People who have not selected that candidate will not see those posts on their Latest and Greatest Pages.
+ All DU members can browse all Democratic candidate groups. All DU members may read, recommend, or alert on posts in any candidate groups.
+ Posts in the candidate groups are covered by the DU rules, like posts everywhere else on our discussion forums.
+ The first thing you should do when you go to your new candidate group is select a member to serve as the lead host of that group. That person will have all the normal functionality of a group host, including naming additional hosts, locking discussion threads, and blocking disruptive people out of the group. When you have selected a person let an admin know so we may designate that person as lead host.
So far the admins feel pretty good about how the Democratic Primaries are going here on DU. Let's all strive to keep it relatively positive. And remember the most important thing is staying unified so we can defeat Trump next year!
Skinner, EarlG, Elad
DU Admins
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Just renaming a street MLK was a political minefield in South Bend. Pete came up with the solution and now the major East/West corridor downtown (formerly St. Joseph Street) is now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
I have blocked all candidate post. I will vote for who ever wins, but in the mean time I have found this to be my best choice. I end up reading those that make it to Greatest Threads. They seem to always remind me of why I have blocked those.
Best of luck to everyone and who they support and if you kids don't behave, I'll turn this car around and go home. 
rocktivity
Even before seeing the author. Due to the nature of primaries, there has to be a certain level of constructive negativity tolerated in GD. But when that environment becomes too toxic, one can retreat to their candidate's sub-forum; a safe-space of positivity.
Calling it a safe-space alone should keep out a large percentage of would-be concern-trollers.
It's greatly appreciated. Many thanks to all involved. 
