I am reposting this with some updates in light of the recent
Armando situation. For those who don't know what happened someone last night posted personal information on Armando that put his job in jeopardy.
This apparently wasn't done by some right-wing nut job, put by a
fellow "Progressive" who got in a Blog argument with Armando here on Kos! I think the issues and solutions I raised in this diary on
TROLL WARS also are pertinent in this situation. I was sick and tired at the time of hearing of
Troll Wars, and Troll War diaries. But I also understood Kos's frustration and revoking of TU status for many readers.
I had something else I wanted to post today, but I think I need to put this diary back out there. I hope it's not hubris on my part. So I have thought long and hard, and think DailyKos would be improved greatly if Kos would do the following.
1) Add a BOO button labeled DISAGREE in between Recommend and Troll.
The reason People
Troll rate many comments is they DISAGREE with a comment strongly and want to express this fact. Even though they know troll ratings are for DISRUPTIVE behavior they feel they have no other way to express this point. Posting a response alone doesn't cut it. So why not add a
DISAGREE button? People also like the fact Recommend and Troll give numerical ratings. That and the quickness of it appeals to people.
They want a ranking of how many people disagree, not just the posting of their comment.
2) Make it easier to get to learn how to add graphics, hyper text, ect.
Many people don't know how to code so often don't provide links, or add the whole
http://www.thisistoolongalink.com/...
I would add a easy tool `plainer directly under
search button on the upper right hand corner. It would explain how hyper link, add graphics, and no more than 10 other commonly used functions. It would greatly improve diaries.
3) Add a best comments ranking
Who got the highest rated comment? This is something for
Jotter to think about. It would be a good clue as to whom people trust, when they give their opinion. It would give an idea on whom would make good judges on issue, if a case ever arose where we needed one. It may surprise some people that the KosGods on the front page may or may not be the most respected voices on the site? Are they? I have no idea.
This would also be a good indicator on who should get TU (trusted user) status, or MTU (most trusted user status).
4) Add a "REPETITION" BUTTON or get Repetition monitors.
Often when a big story breaks there will be 3-4 diaries that all come out on it back to back. This often pushes back diaries on other subjects. If they add something new to the subject fine, but they mostly don't I have been guilty of this once or twice in my Kos lifetime, but I will usually delete the diary myself if I see I have done this. Other will not, maybe it's because its their first very highly recommended, or first highly responded to diary. Today this is happening because of the al-Zarqawi story.
I would accomplish this by doing either one of the following things:
a) Let people give the diaries a repetition ranking. If someone gets lets say 20 repetition rankings, the diary would be pulled. This would let Kos readers decide.
Or
b) Appoint repetition monitors. These would function the way discussion monitors did in the old chat room days. They would be people voted on my Kos members in quarterly elections. They would have designated times to monitor the site. They would be able to remove repetitive diaries, if they don't add anything new to the subject.
5) Have Kos Elections and Nominations as well as Appointments (by Kos) for VIP-TU & Monitors
People could nominate people, who would then be voted on every 3 months. They would have a scheduled time to monitor the Kos Site. They would have super-Troll abilities. Where they could banish someone for a day for outlandish conduct. The person could then appeal to Kos, Georgia10,SusanG, ect.. I think about 20 people would be more than enough.
VIP TU's would be assigned by Kos, Georgia10, ect. These people would have more than 2 Trolls ratings a day. Lets say about 10-15 daily. They would serve as a first line of defense against personal vendetta post, or smear campaigns. Since there are now only 2000+ TU's maybe 10% of us 200 people would be VIP-TU's. That would be more than enough.
These are just some of my ideas. What do you think?
This attack was planned because the person knew most of the Kos site heads would be traveling and out of communication. I was up last night working on something for my job. But I quickly burned through my two Troll ratings and couldn't stop this smear campaign.
UPDATE: Could someone at Yearly Kos let Kos, ect. know about this. I can't imagine that he hasn't responded to this yet. I don't know if he knows because he was traveling last night?