This is one day on DailyKos that I can not wait to end. What started out as a good day with some really good diaries was ruined after an email apparently went out to the Kossacks asking them to take over Daily Kos with this ridiculous pooty crap that has taken over the diaries today.
I have a feeling that the email that went out (I did not receive one thank the stars) was an April Fools Day email that some in the Kossack community took seriously, and that is just a shame.
This is a great site with great people in the community that actually do a lot of hard work to put diaries out to get the truth out there and not the muck that we see on the nightly news and cable channels on a daily basis.
The whole thing was completely unfunny and very immature to have occurred in this community, not to mention that it was a complete waste as at one point every single diary on the rec list was nothing but pooty diaries moving those diaries that were actually good and had a point to obscurity.
As I said above I fully believe that the original email was more than likely a hoax to begin with and unfortunately a lot of people fell for it hook, line, and sinker once again proving that there are a lot of us still to this day will believe anything they see online. Once the pooty stories started making the rec list, I suspect that people that had never made the rec list or maybe had made a few times thought this was there chance to get back on the list.
Midnight will not get here fast enough. I am happy to see that some real stories are starting to make their way into the rec list and kicking some of the non-real stories off.
This is a real site that has a lot of respect in the blog and internet world but unfortunately this day has knocked the site down a peg or two because people that come to this site (for the first time) seeing nothing but pooty diaries will take this site as an non-serious site and go somewhere else.
But fortunately tomorrow brings a new day and takes us away from April Fools Day a day that sadly ran amok on DailyKos today.
NOTE: Several posters have taken me to task for being too serious on the one day that we all can goof around. My only answer to that is that I have as much fun as I can every day of the year so when April Fool's Day rolls around it's just another day to me. So I apologize to all of those that apparently are only allowed one fun day a year. I did not mean to rain on your parade. April Fool's Day
UPDATE: Apparently thinking on your own is frowned upon by some and always following the pack is the in thing. My apologies. Also apparently newbies are not allowed to comment on anything happening on DailyKos. Duly noted.
UPDATE #2: I did this diary in an effort to see how many people would be irritated that I would dare take on the "pootie people" and well you can see the results below. Countless comments telling me to lighten up (or some variation of it) while screaming (as much as one can on a keyboard) at me. So with that April Fool's Day