Here is the way I see it on the blogrolling crap. I know BooMan does not agree.
- It doesn’t cost Kos shit to keep old friends on his site (MLW/BMT/Skippy — others).
- Leads me to believe that the exclusion is either personal or professional. My guess professional, because we are the fucking rabble, right?
- It has an impact on MLW/BMT/Skippy in terms of search stats and such things I don’t understand.
- There’s not fucking way in the world I should be helping his site stats by reading that crap, let alone contributing an iota of shit there, other than to help him pull his head out of his ass on this issue.
I’m not cross-posting this because I’m home on lunch and I’m banking my diary for later if needed. But here is a comment for some fucking centrist there in Kos’ thread bragging about his ability to highlight other more helpful blogs (more power to them by the way).
I truly hope all those kossacks (6+ / 0-)
who are complaining that kos’s new blogroll doesn’t cater to their own needs will come around.
I believe a large number of kossacks don’t get it yet, that dkos is not a chatroom for lonely lefties but an active site for Democratic activators and activists whose primary purpose is to elect progressive Democrats.
I feel like I should add a kitten.jpg to this.
“We have gained a new freedom in science, and it is a joy to use it.” – Eric Voegelin
by Bob Love on Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 03:25:35 AM EST
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I am (0 / 0)one of those “lonely lefties” pal.
Daily Kos is lots of things to lots of people.
But I’m pissed off for people I consider friends who were dropped from the blogroll. I bear no grudge against Kos promoting these other sites — happy they are doing well and kicking ass and taking names.
But no one has really answered one question of mine? How much time/money did it cost Kos to keep the Booman Tribune, My Left Wing and Skippy on the fucking blogroll? Was he out of space? Does it cost him extra for the link?
My guess is that it costs him nothing to keep them. It took him time to remove them.
He removed them because he doesn’t read them? Okay. So Kos links only to what he reads. That is a big fucking thank you to a number of bloggers who have worked pretty hard here to contribute idea/thoughts/content/etc. (I don’t count myself in the group of fine contributors — but I do count those other bloggers and FPs at other blogs that always cross-post here, IMHO to the betterment of the DailyKos Community) That is a fine fucking friend. (I know — it’s not all about friends — it’s all about being “Democratic activators and activists whose primary purpose is to elect progressive Democrats” — forget about actual progressive grass roots individuals who contribute to your damn site).
Post a fucking kitten. And enjoy your new majority. It really looks like it might get some stuff done — like starting a new campaign for fucking ’08 in ’06. It is all about electoral politics — all the time.
I thought a part of being a good electoral politician was knowing how not to piss down your friends backs. Just tell ’em it is raining I guess.
by BostonJoe on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:43:04
I think I understand BooMan’s position, and that he is not in any way supportive of my going on tilt on this issue. Still, I don’t give a shit. Don’t stick a freaking shiv in a friend — I think is my point — when it isn’t pretty freaking necessary.
BooMan. I’ll not be around here long enough today to take this down, which I’d be happy to do at your request. But I wanted to update my thoughts in this issue in a continuing way here. Since I’ll be out, please feel free to strike it yourself — no hard feelings on my part. This is bullshit though.
