I made this comment in another diary and was asked to write it up so here you all go.
Short, sweet and to the point, I'm out for a week. I've been a long time participant in Black Kos diaries but have also made friends online with many folks that I often am in disagreement with. None of them are the enemy. We can disagree without smearing each other. We can disagree without disparaging each other. We can disagree with mocking and calling each other names.
It hurts my heart to see the way that the entire moderation situation, which has been wildly out of control for months, is now being handled. We users begged, pleaded, emailed Admin, and begged some more, for months on end, for the owner of this blog to get involved before the feuding between fellow progressives devolved into all out warfare.
We got nowhere with our requests. We lost Meteor Blades, which still hurts my heart. His contributions to this joint, in my opinion, were literally invaluable. And I can't help but wonder if part of why he left was because of dealing with this shit and getting nowhere fast with no back up from the owner of this blog.
So, in a nutshell, when I look at the banned list, I see some names that deserve to be on it, and more names that don't along with user names that have their ratings ability pulled. Posters who have lost their ratings ability who happen to be some of the most thoughtful posters on this site.
And the bottom line is this has occurred simply because Markos no longer has a clue who most users are at his own site because he is too busy (and rightfully so) trying to build up Daily Kos 4.
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