Meteor Blades had a good diary up earlier today about the meta-storm that went on the last few days. Set out some new rules. Called for a clean slate. Like I say, good stuff.
Looking at just a few threads and diaries, the clean slate may have lasted a few hours. C'est la vie. I'm trying to stay clean and sober on the meta as well, but let me just make one simple observation and suggestion. Not a rule, not an attempt to quash dissent, nothing like that. But I do think there is a simple solution to all of this.
The beauty of the First Amendment is not only free speech, but you can pick and choose what you want to read. Like the saying goes, if you are really offended by something, change the channel.
So, it is that simple.
Don't like something or somebody? Don't like a diary?
Then don't read it. Don't comment on it. Show restraint on your First Amendment rights and simply "change the channel."
There are literally hundreds of diaries a day. Many don't get much reading at all. Hence why we have diary rescue and such.
This isn't a hard and fast rule, just common sense. If I had as much time as some people apparently do to follow each and every diary, comment, Kossack around these parts, I'd probably be out of a job in a second.
That's all I wanted to say. Change the channel.
In order to fill the remain space, I'm taking a page out of the book of one of my long lost favorite diarists, karateexplosions (don't you miss The Scotty Shows?) and will simply say:
This is a picture of a cat.