Last Thursday I wrote this comment on the Cranky Users diary: Cranky Users; Bring on the Crank
or do an act of civil disobience and do a "sit in"
at the help desk until all DK got it's orange line/row back
but then considering how kos is feeling right now, an act of civil disobedience may get us banned .... saying that just left a bad taste in my mouth
in no way am I calling kos a fascist shit head
i'm not even suggesting that he's acting like it
just posing an alternative universe theory of how he could act, if, in that alternative universe, he were to act that way
oh and Spock has a beard
What you may not be able to read in that comment was/is where my good, natured funning actually turned to concern . . . could I or anyone else be banned because we pissed kos off.
It wasn't something I ever thought I'd be thinking here, but since I had my next thought was "WTF? Do I really feel this way and if so why am I still here."
For the record "fascist shit head" was not the correct term. "Tyrannical dick head" is the correct term. And I was speaking in the moment. . .
I love Dailykos, it is THE blog I stayed with when my time forced me to whittle down all the blogs I used to read to one or two, to read without fail.
I have rarely chosen to get involved in a meta wars.
Then in that same CU dairy I wrote this comment about Adept2U's banning (which I am not happy about) and his response to asking for reinstatement on Dailykos:
He won't - his own statement
on his site
Kos Got me Uncle Marcus, but I'm not DEAD I'll be at the People's View
I wanted to put up a quick post for the many friends that I had when I was a participant on the Daily Kos. To those interested in who Uncle Marcus was go ahead and visit the site, find my profile I'm Adept2u there is a post with his name on it, or you can grab one of my last comments and examine its sig line. This will definitely be the last time I refer a single person to click that site.
To those wondering if I’ll seek re-instatement, the answer is no.
Despite the management's opinion it was never about the criticism, which I routinely destroyed but the racist manner they allowed the criticism to be expressed, and certain basic understandings by the management there are not open to discussion. If you would like any further explanation on that, just let me say there is a reason that place is 97% White.
So, no I won’t be playing in that sandbox anymore, however I do have a new one.
I requested and have been invited to become a contributor at The People's View http://www.thepeoplesview.net/
I almost didn't post that because it crossed my mind that I could be banned.
You see mass bannings like that have a way of chilling the atmosphere and commentary. To further the chilling Kos added his own statement to the mix.
A lot of my actions will be arbitrary, inconsistent, and sometimes might even seem capricious. I don't care. Some of you want a big set of rules printed and bound, so everyone is clear on the boundaries. Not me. I'll define "bannable dickishness" the way you define pornography or irony -- you know it when you see it.
Feel the cold wind?
There are some who feel this image painted by Michelangelo of Adam and Eve, that appears on the Sistine Chapel is porn, especially where Eve's face is as she accepts the apple.
Let's see how long photobucket leaves this without the TOU violation sticker in it's place . . . like they did a photo in this dairy of mine. The picture they violated was a black and white kind granny image, of what airport scanners could and could not see.
It had been all over the airwaves, and internet, but photobucket violated it. Because yes, all this is in the eye of the beholder. What's one man's art, or harmless body scan, is another man's porn.
"But, but adept2u's comments as well as others who were banned were abusive, bigoted. . ." etc.
I have a dairy in draft form that I was working on slowly about a dinner party I had in my house where I was the only white person there. I invited my guests because I knew the conversation would be interesting and lively, never paying attention to the color of their skin or where they were born.
The conversation at one point turned to the discussion of whether white people were inherently violent. Examples were giving, opinions were offered and I, I sat back and just listened.
These were words and opinions I had never heard before, some of them were gruff and I could have easily taken offense. But instead I learned a lot about how "minorities" see my race. I also learned that sometimes we white people have too thin a skin.
The mass banning, the chilling effect, the some of the people who were banned have troubled me greatly. But what to do about it.
For months now many of us have pleaded for some moderation, because it was becoming the wild west out here. Without some ultimate majority, some sheriff who would dispense some justice, talk to a party who might be pushing the line, the entropy of "anything goes" filled the nooks and crevices and sucked all the air out of the room.
In protest many kossaks left until some order was promised. (Nursekelley was one, I don't recall the names of the others)
But that promise ended up being very little and chaos has reined.
So instead of doing something when the problem was small but being noticed (a stitch in time) we now have this mass banning with a lot of anger attached to it.
And now a boycott to protest the admitted arbitrariness of the bannings. None of this needed to happen if some form of Meteor Blades former job on DK3 was being done on DK4 by one person or 8 in shifts.
If we had had that long asked for, pleaded for sheriff, instead of getting kos doing a pissed off "grim reaper at the time of pestilence and war" impression, this would not have happened.
That said, I can't abide the chill, the way this was done, the people lost.
I'm in on the boycott too.
the Purge of 2011: Banning trolls or silencing voices - blue jersey mom
Let’s see if this post gets me banned - Buckeye in Los Angeles
P.S. I started this dairy at 10pm on another computer... I'm a slow writer and wasn't even aware that it was after midnight my time. So I am off now.