Seems I tried the automotive and cooking forums and couldn't get in because I was not a donating member.
There’s all sorts of forums over there, but usually the general public pays attention only to “General Discussions,” whatever the now-defunct “Primaries” is now called, and the “Lounge.”
There’s “DU Groups” and “DU Topics;” I have no idea what differentiates a group from a topic.
When regretfully departing the old home and settling in a new one, I had this hope that the groups and forums with be rich with material, but it’s a mixed bag.
The automotive forum and the deaf and hard-of-hearing forum, for example, one gets attacked by killer cobwebs when he goes in.
The “gun owners” forum is a bunch of primitives who own firearms, but because they’re scared of the other primitives, these guys are wimps in expressing opinions.
The election reform forum is nearly wholly dominated by the usual clique and claque, many with whom we all became familiar three years ago this time.
I never really paid much attention to the mental health forum; as Doug’s ex-wife is so rarely there offering her expertise on the subject (instead usually being out in “General Discussions” offering her non-expertise on things way above her head), that forum’s kind of, well, depressing.
The most interesting forums seem to be the ones dealing with rural life, frugal living, and cooking.
I am truly saddened, greatly disheartened, that my fellow alum Skins is so exclusive; while Skins’s island has a forum for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, it has no forum for blind primitives, or for non-English-speaking primitives, or for illiterate primitives.