Some of you need to get over yourselves. I mean seriously. I have been on here long enough to see the same goddamn pattern over and over again.
1. Person writes diary.
2. Gets on rec list
3. Gets on rec list often and accumulates a following.
4. Person has good diaries, bad diaries and everything in-between.
5. Person starts getting into lots of pie. PIE PIE PIE
6. Person writes a WOE IS ME, I’m leaving...the quality has gone to shit, I hate Kos and I’m being censored by moderation.
7. New person takes over and the cycle begins again.
Lets get this straight. If you only get your political news from DailyKos, you are missing out. If you only read the rec list, you are missing out. If you only read stuff where everyone agrees with you, you are doing it wrong.
This website has super interesting stuff, written by people who aren’t getting paid, not looking for recognition and every time some “popular’ person has a tantrum, they shit all over those people. I don’t have fucking time to argue about moderation. It’s all in the eye of the beholder. I can tell you that 95% of the people on this website have never had a hidden comment, been TO or banned. In my 14 years here, I think I have had one hidden comment. I have also taken many breaks from this website. I have never written a “I’m leaving” diary because no one gives a shit.
Sure popular people have left but you know what happens, someone new will rise up and take over the rec list. You don’t like the rec list...STOP recommending stuff that nonsense. Read the Community Spotlight. I have had more than one diary end up there.
Right now we have kids DYING in cages and you want to complain people don’t like your candidate. Fucking please. I actually think this primary cycle has been pretty nice. I read most of the candidate diaries and they are great. Positive places where people highlight why they like candidate x. I get that there is a faction of people that can’t stop arguing with each other but I have found that ignoring all diaries that have a weird comment to rec ratio lowers the blood pressure.
People need to stop treating this website as launching pad to their own “Rachel Maddow” show. It’s never happened as far as I know. This is a goddamn free website that you can just not visit if it’s bothering you.
But you don’t need to shit on everyone on your way out.
UPDATE: I love that there a sub thread about chili and meatloaf. Seriously this is what makes this website great!