Daily Kos is really going to hell. Bob Johnson's self-appointed "Daily Kos Diary Archetype Project" should have been removed by the administrators. As a loud 'n proud "untrusted user" I don't know much about troll-rating (though I may be finding out more soon). Nevertheless, that Bob Johnson (not his real name) appoints himself "Daily Kos Archivist" and then starts a Diary Archetype project without so much as polling the community to determine whether the project is necessary or desirable, then he (apparently) decides he is entitled to execute the project all on his lonesome when clearly a project of this sort calls for a central committee buttressed by myriad working groups dedicated to long pointless meetings and threads hashing out irrelevant ideas...well, I can only ask why do we tolerate that sort of diary here?
Not only that, but Mr. Bob "I'm the archivist" Johnson fails to highlight in Archetype #17 one its most important elements. (And no, I'm not going to link to his diary--it doesn't deserve the attention its already gotten.)
The 3rd paragraph of the Archetype sample begins as follows:
I am shocked and saddened to see such a diary on Daily Kos.
Shocked and saddened. Clearly, this sentiment is a hallmark the Archetype, yet our self-appointed archivist fails to include it in his list of essential elements.
* a refusal to link to the offending diary so as "not to call further attention" to the offending piece;
* a heaping of blame and shame upon the site's "administrators" for not removing the offending diary;
* general comments about troll-rating in the offending diary;
* attacks on a number of posters to the aforementioned offending diary, sometimes called out by name, but usually unidentified and left as a mystery to be solved.
Really, I am shocked and saddened to see such a diary on Daily Kos. And to think that we call ourselves a "liberal community". Are we a community at all when people can just appoint themselves to authoritative positions and start projects without so much as a fare thee well? I think not. As you reflect on this question consider all of the people who commented on and recommended this heinous work: what were they thinking? Were they simply trying to curry favor with yet another dKos big shot or is there something still more sinister going on?
It further saddens me that in order to discuss the demise of our erstwhile community I must render some modicum of attention to Mr. Bob Johnson (what kind of a name is that, anyway--I'm sick and tired of these "clever" internet handles. In fact, I'd like to diary about it but I guess I have to wait for the Archetype for that one to be released...).
I implore you not to seek out this egregious insult of a diary that is bringing destroying our fallen eden.
What is to become of us? We are doomed. To hell (or the secular equivalent (LGF?)). Forever. Apparently.
In saddness and shock,
hoipolloi, UT™
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