look – from behind the curve at the speed of snail – it’s captain obvious! with another reaction to current blogospheric phenomena:
dkos can bite me.
thank god i’m not a serious blogger.
mom – please. get out of there while you still can. while you have your sanity intact.
honestly – it’s like indymedia.org armed with photoshop. yecch.
6 responses so far ↓
paparader // May 24, 2008 at 8:56 am
why so coy? i mean–which outrage du jour brought this on?
r@d@r // May 25, 2008 at 2:35 am
okay, i see that you have better things to do than keeping abreast of the latest stupid thing those people get up to – so how’s this for paralyzing, lip-numbing stupidity?
paparader // May 25, 2008 at 8:27 am
so–fuck dailykos because someone posted an offensive diary? do you realize the gigantic amount of traffic they have over there? the diary had almost no recommends and the community moved to get that image taken down, and the diarist did. (i know because of the data that came up when i searched for the original diary)
i didn’t see it originally because it probably dropped off the recent diaries list in like 2 seconds.
seems like the jeremiah wright phenomenon–which seemed like a real issue because cnn ran with it 24/7.
i honestly don’t see how this reflects badly on dailykos.
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r@d@r // May 27, 2008 at 7:53 am
this is a problem i have with massive, nearly-impossible-to-moderate communities like that one. it’s the same reason i can’t stand indymedia any more, and they were an absolutely critical information source at one time – now they’re just a cesspool of the most violently reactionary expression imaginable, sort of like Yahoo! groups.
i really don’t think size is an excuse, because for one thing, social networks of that size have volunteers & interns moderating posts – i cannot imagine that anything gets posted without editorial eyes examining it first. and i have observed that they have a problem with this kind of crap going back quite a long way. this is just the most egregious recent example. the jeremiah wright phenomenon is a i think an inapt analogy, because if you examine what rev. wright actually said, none of it is false or even offensive to a thinking person – the only type of person who would be upset by the things he actually said would be somebody so far gone into the right wing that they can no longer function as a thinking person.
conversely, this post we’re talking about is just flat out toxic stupidity, and the people complaining about it are black people in general, not network talking heads. If nobody over there actually checks anything before it goes out – that’s just intensely irresponsible for a social network of that size. I wouldn’t be reacting like this if it weren’t for the fact that Moulitsas has taken on this sort of mantle as speaking on behalf of the progressive blogosphere or whatever you want to call it. He has some housecleaning to do. But that’s just my humble opinion.
paparader // May 28, 2008 at 3:22 pm
“because for one thing, social networks of that size have volunteers & interns moderating posts – i cannot imagine that anything gets posted without editorial eyes examining it first.”
um, no. that is not how dailykos operates, sorry.
also, my analogy with wright wasn’t about content, but rather the phenomenon of creating a larger audience for controversy by sheer repetition. seriously–i’m on kos every day. i didn’t see that diary at all. i had to hunt for it, based on the link provided. when i looked at the stats for that diary, there were almost no recommendations, and very few comments. it was a drop in the ocean, and would have disappeared without it being called attention to. how a scarcely viewed or recommended diary can be made to be emblematic of what dailykos is all about is ludicrous. it’s like saying hate man spoke for all of berkeley.
not buying it, sorry.
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r@d@r // May 28, 2008 at 6:03 pm
are we having a political argument? when was the last time you and i had a political argument? this is fun!
it’s just like they said in the bible, man – “brother against brother” etc.
such times we live in!