Of Mice and Moderation: Mountains, Molehills, and Mojo

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EtiKos: Dear Miss Mayta - Wringing Out The Old

JanF for EtiKos

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Friday December 30, 2011 · 1:00 PM PST

2011/12/30 · 13:00

On September 14th, kos issued his site moderation edict "Participating in someone else's diary". There was an immediate hue and cry for Miss Mayta to weigh in on the new rules. (Well, perhaps not a real cry ... that was reserved for those on low bandwidth trying to open a diary with 987 comments.)

Miss Mayta said: "Too soon, my dears".

And indeed it was too soon, because four days later, kos issued another edict "Recap, new community behavior guidelines" (which only had 533 comments ... many of them eerily familiar.) "Now, Miss Mayta???", ~~literally no one~~ the multitudes implored.

Miss Mayta said: "Too soon, my dears".

Through our long autumn of discontent, with the ebb and flow of blogging on the Great Orange Satan™, the cries for EtiKos advice became weaker and weaker until, finally, Miss Mayta said ~~"What? After all that ... now you don't care?!!??"~~ "Okay, the time is right, my dears".

We have certainly come a long way since August 5th when all seemed lost.

Then	Now (Wow, I think those are ponies!)

So how on earth did we get from Then to Now?

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JanF

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Sunday October 30, 2011 · 3:37 AM PDT

2011/10/30 · 03:37

Good Morning Kossacks and Welcome to Morning Open Thread (MOT)
We're known as the MOTley Crew and you can find us here every morning between 6:30 and 7:00 Eastern. Feel free to volunteer to take a day - permanently or just once in awhile. With the autopublish feature you can set it and forget it. Quite often the diarist du jour shows up much later, that's the beauty of Open Thread...it carries on without you! Just let us know in the comments. You can click on the Morning Open Thread "heart" if you'd like us to show up in your stream every day.
(MOT boilerplate courtesy of JaxDem

Today, we have a visit from an old ~~busybody~~ favorite, Miss Mayta as she ~~barges in on the quiet of the morning~~ wanders into the MOT to provide some early morning etiquette advice to the MOTley Crew (and Threadies).

(Note: Feel free to jibber your jabber amidst the other noise and distractions this morning)

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Saturday August 06, 2011 · 10:50 AM PDT

2011/08/06 · 10:50

Miss Mayta has been quietly lurking and calmly observing the chaos as Kossacks and Kogs find their way around DK4.

There have been a few tumbles into the yawning maw of the orange bit bucket but nearly everyone survived. The others perished ... never to be seen again and, quite frankly, their opinion does not matter any longer, does it? (Sorry. Miss Mayta is, above all, a realist)

So now it is time to survey the New World Order of DKos 4.0.2.

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EtiKos: Dear Miss Mayta - Answering Your Blogging Etiquette Questions about DKos 4.0

JanF

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Saturday August 06, 2011 · 10:50 AM PDT

2011/08/06 · 10:50

Okay, Kossacks and Kogs.

We have seen the New Orange. We have read all the meta diaries about DKos 4.0 (and DKos 6.0!). Most of us have been on the beta site ... many of us shielding our eyes from the gleaming brilliance of the new design (once we got past the fact that it did not incorporate our brilliant designs. Hmmph!)

Our technical questions have been answered but, lo, no one has answered the blogging etiquette questions on the minds of ~~literally no one~~ all of us as we ponder the New World Order.

So let's shine a white hot light on DKos 4.0 and get all you alls ready for the Big Changeover ... or as it is known here on DKos 3.0 ... The End of the World as We Know It.

Bright Hot Sun of DK4

JanF

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Saturday August 06, 2011 · 10:50 AM PDT

2011/08/06 · 10:50

After a week with a bumper crop of meta diaries (Ta Ta For Now, Good Bye Cruel World, and Close Screen And Take A Day Off), it came to light* that we do not have any place to go for answers to our burning questions about blogging etiquette on the Great Orange Satan.

So lets all huddle around the campfire and toast our ... um ... marshmallows while we sing kumbaya and gather for one more meta diary. This one a Helpful Meta Diary about EtiKos.

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Friday August 05, 2011 · 1:00 PM PDT

2011/08/05 · 13:00

Miss Mayta was going to stay above the fray in the latest meta wars but she received two letters in her KosMailbox that made her think that there might be a way to fix the site instead of simply complaining about it.

Just to be clear, we do not mean "fix" like Grover Norquist does:

“[Democrats] will only become acceptable once they are comfortable in their minority status. Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they’ve been fixed, then they are happy and sedate.”

(Psstt: We do have a common enemy and you don't really have to look too far to find it)

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