Yes hello - and thanks for riding herd. This promises to be a wild election cycle.

DU is in very good hands!

I enjoyed my term so much. It was truly eye-opening...

Go get 'em, everybody!

I was feeling OK about not being on MIRT...

And your beautiful remark just made this old lady tear up.

Maybe I'll do another term one of these days...

...I've always imagined MIRT to be a bunch of cranky old farts who hate people.

Not one of the sweetest DUers ever.

Nobody on MIRT hates people......we just hate malicious intruders!


Aw, thanks, sweetie......

if you're looking for cranky semi-old farts that hates people.

Somebody has to do it.

And one word of advice - Stay on top of your inbox! Trust me on this one.

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Have fun out there!

and the 6th.

Maybe someday we'll do it again.

Thinking someone wanted to chat. Opened it up & 5 pieces of mail...still thinking some jury nonsense went haywire.

Oh yeah...that MIRT thing. Here we go!

My inbox was up to 378! I have no idea if anyone actually sent me real mail

and him.

Jaysus.

Gets perturbed sometimes.

Without MIRT, those same two longer tirades would wind up more frequently in the DUmail of relatively randomly selected members.

Wanna join MIRT? I hear there will be a MIRT turnover soon!

first two terms?

these are excellent, thoughtful folks who will get us through the election.

and good luck with the next few weeks

I don't have what it takes to do the job, but the good work you do does not go unnoticed.

It is an eye opening experience, I promise you that.
And thanks to ALL of the retired and the returning members who have done such a good job.

Serving on MIRT will be the most rewarding experience you will have on DU because the emphasis is on the T - Team work.

You will come to appreciate the people you work with that you may have never even noticed before. Also you will learn to respect others that you might, in the beginning, think you won't agree with or perhaps don't even care for. I know that I will never again see a MIR team member out on greater DU without thinking about the experience and smiling a little. The truth is that the team members cease being posters and they become people.

Take Ruby's advice and keep up with your purging or you will be overwhelmed. I look forward to getting more sleep because going forward if I wake up in the middle of the night I will no longer feel compelled to check DU to see if we have had an intruder invasion.

Be kind to each other.

My advice to the new members...keep on top of your DU mail, if you don't delete at regular intervals it'll really pile up.

I hope to serve again in the future when my real life isn't so busy. It's a great experience.

I have enjoyed MIRT and working on a great team, and have learned a lot about DU and about the various species of trolls! All the best to all current MIRT-ers in keeping the trolls from the door, especially during election week!

Another good team goes into the fray.
Gird your loins, you guys are going to be busy.

While I was on MIRT, my Inbox sometimes went 'KABOOM!' for reasons far less important than a major election.

Thank you all for keeping the trolls from the door!

and fun, to boot!

Some of the "high traffic" levels will probably help!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10132252

Much appreciated. I was on a jury last night, and was a bit at a loss as to what to do about a horrible, possibly illegal post (containing at least a strong insinuation of a death threat), other than vote to hide it.