Look. I know this is the height of hypocrisy. After all, this is a diary about diaries about diaries. But it seems to me that a lot of the counterproductive urination competitions between posters here at dKos could be completely avoided if people just confined their comments to where they belong.
Where is that? The comments!
If you disagree with what someone has written in a diary, then comment upon that diary in that diary's comment section!
Should it be a rule?
It might already be a rule. If it is, tell me which rule. Tell me that in the comments section provided below. Please! Don't start another diary about which rule it is! If you want to have a piss fight about this with me, then whup it out! Right here! We'll piss allover this diary! (I do that for random drug tests. I piss allover. So far, no one has caught the irony as it was intended.)
We'll say we hate each other! Call each other motherfuckers. Call each other Republicans!
We'll call all the frontpagers assholes! We'll piss all over OPOL! We'll call Kos a no good gaddamed antichrist! Fuck. Them. But once this diary mercifully falls off the page, no more pissing! The convoluted subject matter at hand that is boring everyone else besides you and me to meta-death will be gone. No one will be subjected to my hating you or you hating me, at least with regards to this finite subject.
What if you found a diary so late that it was dead? Surely then you should be able to start a new diary detailing how fucked up the diarist was, right? No. I think diaries accept comments for weeks, maybe years. If they're off the page, THERE'S A REASON THEY'RE OFF THE PAGE!
It's because they're OVER! They're YESTERFUCKINGDAY!
Now don't tell me I'm breaking my own proposed rule here, because I'm not. I'm not naming any diarists who diary about diaries. I'm not linking to any diaries about diaries. So yes. You can bring up an opposing viewpoint in a diary, because that's a diary about an opposing viewpoint. As soon as you name a diarist with an opposing viewpoint or link to an opposing diary, you're starting a pissfest. No. Worse. You're turning our beloved DailyKos into a pissfest. Then, sure as shit, Markos will have to be bothered on his yacht or called at his villa and he will try to intervene, thereby screwing everything up worse because he hasn't understood this place's dynamics since UID 6091 was a n00b.
That's not his fault. Who could understand this?
You want to help Markos? You want to be kind to this beautiful concept we call the Netroots? If you find yourself writing a diary about another diarist or another diary...
Don't do that.
Pretty fucking simple.