I was banned from Kos earlier today, because I offended one other poster who disagreed with me about Ted Kennedy (”condoleaser”).

The more people that speak up about the crowd at Kos, the more likely that part of the website will be de-emphasized.

yeah, it’s weird to be shut out of a site i happily participated in despite the infantile tone of some of the Kossacks. i almost forgot about markos defiant screw you tude when people complained about the pie fight ad. they really hate to hear that an intolerant liberal is kind of a pathetic oxymoron. I certainly never went after trolls to flag them. their reasoning on what makes a troll is scary in its single-minded conviction. booman did have a ridiculous rigorous list of ways to spot a troll; one being they never post on movie or music diaries. uh…yeah. or they only comment when there’s a heated debate….right.

anyway. i’m still trying to get my mind around the thought of someone spending hours scanning comments to police and hide. or complaining about being banned…

great site.

peace.

It’s okay for Armando and the others to regularly tell people to “fuck off” call them “assholes” or bring out their DK rulebook to point out how somebody veered from the path of their gospel, but if you challenge them without name-calling, and using reason, they circle like sharks and shut you down.

So I can only assume that Markos himself silenced my voice.

Which I now take to be an honor.

If DK thinks this is the way to create a community, he’s heading down the path of the right.

peace.

I was also amused that commenters warned me that the Armando diary would disappear along with me from the site unless I deleted it. I haven’t checked lately, but the day after these stupid threats the diary still stood. Haven’t tried to post another diary but presumably I haven’t been banned.

DK members act like peole whose favorite band just became popular. It’s MINE. SHUTUP and GET OUT. That’s always my favorite comment. It’sthe left-wing equivalent to America: Love It Or Leave It.

DK is imploding. The arbitrary censorious troll-hunters are shielding the open discourse they claim to triumph.

Given Armando’s profane rants and infantilism, it’s no wonder he shills for Wal Mart.

I mean, just agrree and you’ll be fine.

But I do appreciate yr support for my views.

It got zero readers. I’m sorry, I may be boring but I’m not that bad.

I think you mean you got zero commenters. Undoubtedly, you did have readers. Just no one interested or intelligent enough to engage what you wrote. I can attest that you are by no means boring. I’ve written diaries at Kos which I thought were interesting and which attracted no comments. That gave me thought that the level of discourse there may not be all that high. The rabid reaction to my posts about Kos & Armando confirm that.

Though I must say that I respect & admire Maryscott O’Connor who still holds DKos in some esteem. So it must be a large enough community that there is some intelligent debate there. In truth, I have written some diaries there about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which have drawn intelligent discussion. So as you say it’s a mixed bag.

Kos…is not left in any recognizable respect.

Yes, that’s true. That’s probably why Maryscott started My Left Wing. I’m not privy to the nuances of DKos but many commenters & e-mailers here have told me that Kos is really interested much more in winning than in philosophical or political/analytical debate.