Let me be the first to say it: BarbinMD, Devilstower, Kagro X, and MissLaura are bad for Daily Kos.
Now the "(blank) is bad for Daily Kos" diary category has dropped sharply since the departure of Armando (RIP). Any day now I expect it will be revived with some poor newbie like Big Tent Democrat or another victim being singled out for blame for all the problems of the site.
But last year I tried to warn everyone about the Class of 2006
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My warnings went unheeded and look what happened. DarkSyde singlehandedly cost Nancy Pelosi her Congressional seat (did he really have to have such a torrid affair with her in public in Vegas?). SusanG got busted running a male prostitution ring. (Pimping Jeff Gannon ain't easy.) mcjoan took off on a Thelma and Louise style trip across the western states, robbing convenient stores for gum. Meteor Blades under investigation by the feds as an international weapons smuggler. It was a difficult year for Daily Kos and the readership dropped off dramatically and we can thank the Front Page diarists with providing Republicans with enough ammunition to keep their majority in the House and Senate.
So what dangers lurk with the Class of 2007?
I'll tell you.
BarbinMD. I've met her. She's attended Yearly Carnacki. One would think I'd be happy at her selection. One would be wrong. Not only is BarbinMD not really in the field of medicine as her name would lead you to believe (ahhh, the sweet smell of deception), but I know for a fact she has spent time in the Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore (a place to discredit anybody).
Kagro X. The horror! The horror! My nemesis. I'm doomed on this site. I might as well ban myself now before he begins impeachment proceedings against me.
MissLaura. As a fellow top comment diarist, I know many of MissLaura's secrets. Some I cannot reveal because the Top Comments crew is sworn to secrecy about our initiation rites which involve swearing an oath in a midnight ceremony where we stand in a circle nude and place our hands over the skull of Millard Fillmore. (Oooops I said too much).
Devilstower. Actually I can't think of anything bad to say about him (which in itself some would say is enough evidence to prove he's bad for Daily Kos). But just think of what the right wing sites and the concern centrist trolls of TPM Café are going to say when they find out a Front Pager touts the Dark Lord Satan in his handle?
Those are my concerns. The site is doomed with Kos' selection of these Front Pagers.
Doomed, I say.
Doomed!