Sometime ago - maybe about two or three years ago - DKos seemed to me a site of enormous conflict and upheaval. There were extraordinary voices of deeply committed people, and they made what were judged serious mistakes.
A lot of people left or were banned. MSOC and Big Tent Democrat/Armando were two of the most distinctive loses. Others were generally reviled, and yet other more gentle voices got lost. Dear Edrie comes to mind: it was proposed that that there would be a series on feminisms and Edrie's worries had little power over the idea that sexy 4 foot heels were really great.
And so it goes. For myself, I was invited to join another blog, an acadmic blog (horrors!) that gets picked up by the MSM (the NY Times most recently) but which is mostly just a lot of fun.
Back to the point of this post: Now one of the real ring leaders in the various purges declares that the site is no longer worth contributing to. I mean, what the hell did she expect?
I am dumbfounded.
I assume you know who I mean. New members might be interested to see, for example, her views on MSOC's psychiatric problems. "Throwig her under the bus" might be a good description.
But still, here's a serious reflection: give a young person a big role in shaping a community and you might find even she doesn't want to be part of it.
During that upheaval I acquired my own chorus who would join in on basically anything I did to denouce me. Such fun! Maybe you'll get to see them.