Fellow West Virginia Progressives:
Friends, I am of two minds about local-regional groups like West Virginia Kos. We need face-to-face and one-on-one community. That is what we get from our meetings and actions. We also need wider communication through media such as Daily Kos (DK).
I see difficulties with the DK group setup.
Users at DK are often faceless, with pseudonyms, resulting a lack of transparency and accountability. This invites counterproductive levels of pointless commentary, snark, ranting, trolling, and pie-fighting.
Here, from the website, is a brief statement on the leadership roles in groups:
Group Leadership Roles:
A group is a publishing organization .…
Admin (that’s me, John Lozier) has absolute control over the group -- ... can manage publication schedule, invite more people into the leadership, fire them.
Editor (I need volunteers) can manage the queue (actually publishing diaries to a group's home), but has no ability to hire and fire.
Member (contributor, that’s you until I promote you) can just queue things, but can't actually publish to the group's home page.
What is “CUA” (Connect! Unite! Act!)? I’m guessing it is the “community spotlight”, a list of items “rescued” for matching some unclear criteria.
I’d like to somehow connect my kossack habits with my local activity, but it is not clear how best to do it.
PLEASE SHARE your experience in comments or kosmail me — arper (John Lozier).