Well, here goes. I'm going to be honest -- with all the options for "comment preferences" and "ratings" and "display preferences," I'm not sure I'll be visiting this site as often as I used to (my boss would say "good!"). As a non-techie I find this new site to be extremely intimidating; and I hope it won't deter people like me who were "just passing by" a few months ago and decided to drop in on the conversation. Because that's exactly what dailykos is, and why I look forward to logging on in the morning. The long thoughtful posts by both newbies and regulars, the gut-busting oneliners that have made me do coffee spit-takes -- I fear these will be made obsolete with relative complexity of registering and posting. I've tried my hand at rating a few posts just to see how it works, and I see I haven't managed to bring the entire site down to a grinding halt, so perhaps there's hope for me. I'll keep working at it, but for now I'm feeling a bit nostalgic for the simplicity of the old.