Ok, that is it. That is enough. No more will I sit here I read them. The GBCW diaries are just plain offensive to anyone who has ever written an actual GBCW letter or, more accurately, a suicide note. Someone who has written an actual, goodbye letter or note to loved ones. So, kindly, if you think the community needs to know why you are leaving and want to cast it as GBCW, please STFU. Too many people write real GBCW letters every day, and the "bye DailyKos" diaries here just diminish those.
I've read a few CBCW diaries recently. At least one from a member I respect and that I will miss. But, no one, and I mean no one including Kos or Meteor Blades themselves, is entitled to a GBCW diary. Because it insults the roughly 95 people in the US who do say goodbye to this cruel world for real every single day. (http://www.sccenter.org/...). If one is not actually dying by one's own hand, then one should not be writing a GBCW diary.
I have read some legitimate gripes in GBCW diaries. I have read understandable complaints. But, the very term GBCW is offensive as these are not about saying goodbye to a supposed cruel world; they are about some issue that annoys one enough that one leaves one of the hundreds of thousands of blog sites (while a big and wonderful one) out there.
Let me tell you what a real GBCW letter is. It is what one writes before slashing one's wrists. It is one that one writes before taking a bottle of sleeping pills. It is what one writes before putting a shotgun in one's mouth. A GBCW note is what the police find next to one's body. It IS NOT why one is going to stop writing on any given website.
If you have never written an actual GBCW letter, do not use that term or cast any diary along those lines. Because any reason for leaving a website is nothing, NOTHING, like the reasons for leaving life as a whole. Comparing the two diminishes the memory of all who really and truly said goodbye to this cruel world.
To summarize, write a diary complaining. Write a diary saying you are leaving. But do not even consider comparing leaving DailyKos to taking one's life. It insults the memory of too many and ignores the reality that there are those who did say goodbye to a cruel world. If one does not fit into the latter group, one is spitting on those who do. The GBCW diaries are just self-serving and woe is me diaries that insult those who have said, or tried to say, goodbye. So, stop it. We should know better.