In a diary back in December, I asked readers to HR me into oblivion so that I would be banned from dKos. I wrote:
And tonight, I need your help, and I'm asking for it. I am realizing that I need to be encouraged to stay away from this site and to spend my time doing something else, anything else. And I apparently cannot do this myself.
Every time I take a hiatus, I come back. Every time I go away for a few weeks, I come back. I've never written that final GBCW diary, mostly because I don't like the genre, and also, because I keep coming back. So it seems hypocritical.
And so, I need your encouragement to GTF outaheah. I need your help. The encouragement to leave I want is this: HR me until I get fully banned and can't come back. No matter what.
It didn't work.
I'm still here. My efforts lost me my TU status for a wee bit. But it didn't kick me the F out of Dodge. Some of you resisted giving me HRs because you suspected the diary was performance art. You give me entirely too much credit. Some of you wrote diatribes saying that you would withhold the HR because you were sadists. That was nonsense. You just decided not to help a brother out.
And now, I see that the diarist known as Tocquedeville has been banned, and that I am again writing diaries and putting them up on dKos. A few of you read them.
This banning is quite a cruel turn of events, and it makes me feel very bad. For myself. Where were you when I needed you? Why did you withhold the silver bullet that would have ended my brief, not particularly illustrious career as a diarist at dKos?
I had no idea that it was so easy to be run out of this cybertown. Really I didn't. I thought you had to plot and work for it. I had a great idea, and it led nowhere. Tocquedeville wrote a straightforward diary, and he succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. Evidently, I was just plain wrong when it came to getting kicked out.
I realize that a diary like the classic by ErriF might get me banned, but unlike Maureen Dowd, I don't have anybody to call me up and tell me full, punctuated paragraphs of the famous ErrinF diary so I can post it as my own. No, I don't have such patient friends. And I don't think it's good the use so many expletives.
And I thought I would actually have to espouse various controversial and proscribed ideas about UFOs, Area 51 in New Mexico, or 7 World Trade Center, or the "controlled demolition" of the World Trade Center (ooooh, he said "World Trade Center" twice) to get banned. But I guess Tocquedeville proved that just wasn't the case.
And so I have a final offer to bring peace and what passes for harmony to dKos. Ban me. I've had enough. Really I have. And then, trade me for him/her. Let Tocquedeville write diaries. Evidently, unlike me, s/he thinks it's important to be writing here and is saddened by his/her ouster. Put another way, trade me for him/her. You'll make both of us happy.