Poll: Why is DKos readership declining?
Sat Dec 29, 2007 at 08:29:54 AM PDT
I was fascinated by onemadson's provocative thread yesterday noting the steady decline of site visits at DailyKos since August, at a time when the Democratic primary races have reached a fever pitch.
Onemadson's premise seemed counterintuitive to me. Since Billo decided that Daily Kos was the liberal devil come to life, I have assumed our site numbers were growing exponentially -- at least as fast as America's disgust with George W. Bush was growing.
The discussion that followed was lively - 845 comments when I last checked. Sprinkled through all those comments were some good ideas on why this might be happening.
I have attempted to distill the most common reasons given to the questions in this poll.
I apologize in advance if your particular reason is not reflected in one of the poll choices. I tried to select those that seemed to recur most often in the thread.
The biggest problem with this sample, as some will surely point out, is that those people who have left are not represented in the group of respondents. It is left to those of us who are left to guess why those folks departed.
But I think the first step toward reversing the trend may be this reaching toward a common understanding of what, in fact, is happening.
If you answer "none of the above," please explain in a comment. And if you think this poll is valuable, please recommend the diary in order to help get a larger sample. Thanks.
