I feel very honored to have been chosen.

congrats, my dear Peggy

and good luck to you and all the new members...........

Especially those who haven't served on MIRT previously. It's a very interesting part of DU, and performs important services. In my two terms, I learned a great deal and worked with a great group of DUers.

Say hi to Library Girl.

good luck in the working up to elections period. You will be needed!

and heed this advice: keep your inbox cleaned out.

when DU3 was first launched MIRT got SO much DUMail it was insane - like hundreds in a 24 hour period (at least it seemed like that) and with some of the improvements/automated functions it became very reasonable. But it seems like this last session, the trolls and intruders really out did themselves. it felt like I was deleting a hell of a lot of messages the last few months!

As always. Keeping DU neat and clean, the often unsung heroes.

Game on!

Glad to be part of the team!

Goooo MIRT!

It astonishes me every time I serve how skilled some people are at sniffing out trouble before it escalates.

By the time I amble by the work is often done.

Some of it is a time zone phenomena, but mostly it's because there are so many very quick, sharp, and intelligent people here on DU.

Best wishes to the new team! The first-timers among you are about to discover how important the job is to DU.

Without MIRT and jury service this place would be full of spam, vile misogyny, racism, homophobia, and the lewd comments of lonely guys drooling over videos of buxom braless women firing big bump stock guns.

You have a good group to start with.

I will check in a bit and start getting myself educated. Congrats to the other new members, and thanks to the returning and retiring members.

My big net and the heavy gloves. Sometimes people try to bring mixed animals into the lounge. Tie your hair back. You need to get them by the back of the neck if you touch one at all. It's best to leave live traps from the Humane Society. Trolls are much the same but worse in may ways, particularly smell.

Many brave catchers and dispellers of trolls have fought bravely Some will leave, some will dispatch on. New mirters, will figure out what I never quite got, about hunting them down, and booting them out. Good luck.

I watched it happen and you guys and gals are good!

Good luck new team.