This is my first diary ever. No doubt reading it will explain why this is the case. Over the years of “lurking” and commenting on DK, I have been been moved by quite a number of people who have shown a wonderful ability to communicate on both socio-political and personal issues. One such contributor is teacherken, who has endured an Augean journey these past few years.
I was gratified, therefore, to see his name on the recommended list Saturday, and clicked to read his story. Well-reasoned, personally grounded and emotionally transparent, I looked forward to the comments. Unfortunately, a new practice has been employed by DK: hoover up some buzzwords from a diary and use a search engine to unearth ANY prior diaries that MIGHT contain some of the same buzzwords.
I have to wade through rhododendrons in April 2018, to coding and lies in 2014. Think about it- 2014! What does this have to do with teacherken’s Saturday diary? NOTHING. ZERO. And there’s OVER 100 auto-inserted diaries, some randomly repeating. Based on what? Machine generated “key” words/tags matched against an inhuman, non-curated data base search.
ONLY after I wade through all this egregious, machine-generated backwash do I reach the comments section. You have utterly polluted the mood he evoked.
DKos? I thought you were better than this.
My bad.