DailyKos Website Nightmare

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Tuesday September 01, 2015 · 6:27 PM PDT

2015/09/01 · 18:27

I fucking love this site. I used to visit all the time. Look at my history, and it seems that over the past three years I post an annual gripe about the interface. Well, here goes again. Let me preface by saying that I want to return to my habit of visiting THIS website for perspectives on the news. Its content is excellent. I returned to DKos today, as I do from time to time, to see if it was an easy browse. It wasn't. It was a shit nightmare, reminiscent of a bad dialup experience. First, the page froze on a creepy image of Donald Trump. Once more content loaded, I knew that if I scrolled up too soon, the page would start jogging back down to the Trump image -- it seems to do that until the page is completely loaded. Well, after a reasonable pause waiting for the page to load, I scrolled up, and it insisted on jogging down no matter what. I reloaded the page three times. I'm on Safari. I've also tried FireFox. I can't be the only person who has filed this gripe. I'm not a concern troll. I just want to read this damn page. Please -- please fix DKos.

D Kos Interface

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Sunday November 02, 2014 · 5:49 AM PST

2014/11/02 · 05:49

To Whom It May Concern,
While I really like the Daily Kos website, there are a lot of other venues for leftward political discussion. DKos is a bookmark among several other favorites. I scan or browse through these sites during my day when I have a few free moments. Now, there are sites I don't visit because of obnoxious pop-ups. Slate and Salon have just one pop-up upon the initial visit, and that's just fine. I suppose that's my limit. Afterall, I want to read and concentrate on my content. Daily Kos, however, has become a bit of a pain because upon arrival to the site, it flips through every story posted since my last visit (I think that's what it is doing). Then, once I begin to scroll down to see the first story, I get the fundraising pop-up.

Maybe it's just Safari? I don't know. I'm probably not going to stop using Safari just to accommodate one site. Nevertheless, the manner with which I interface with Daily Kos has reduced my time spent here. I thought that someone, somewhere might find this helpful.

Best,

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Bankrupting Private Student Loans - WH Petition

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Sunday February 02, 2014 · 5:53 AM PST

2014/02/02 · 05:53

Below is a link to a White House petition asking the White House to allowed private student loan borrowers to be allowed to discharge their debt through bankruptcy.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/...

Eat the Rich FB Page

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Thursday February 17, 2011 · 9:10 AM PST

2011/02/17 · 09:10

Lately I've been bothered by the number of people who've been convinced that the unions are harming America. That state and federal coffers are small and/or shrinking BECAUSE of the unreasonable demands of public servants. Too often the facts about the impacts of free trade, corporate influence, tax loopholes, and tax cuts have contributed to these problems and have gone ignored.

I want to help disseminate memes, stories, news, facts, statistics, research that demonstrates that many of the problems we are facing today have been caused by greed - by corporations, billionaires, free marketers, Spencerians, Randians, libertarians, and Fox News.

I invite you to join "Eat the Rich," a FB page at which you and I can trade stories as we encounter them in the news.

http://www.facebook.com/...

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Agnostic on Tax Cut Deal

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Tuesday December 07, 2010 · 3:23 PM PST

2010/12/07 · 15:23

Well, people are weighing in today one way and the other on this tax cut deal. I was prompted twice today to sign the Kos petition. I've signed several, but this one's not for me. Here's why.

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Thursday November 04, 2010 · 9:24 AM PDT

2010/11/04 · 09:24

The McConnell strategy of focusing on the repeal of healthcare and denying Obama a second term shouldn't be dealt with glibly. I've read some of the recommended diaries on this, and while I share the anger, I don't think O'Connell is stupid. While every bit of an asshole, he's not strategically stupid.

Obama is hamstrung by the nature of his signature legislation - that it comes into effect in drips and drabs. Nobody ever felt it happen. I can point to all of its benefits just like any of you, but the benefits of this legislation just isn't salient to the the folks who vote and who waiver between parties or voting at all.

McConnell's rhetoric is really smart because whereas this kind of "we won't compromise" shit might ordinarily be liberating to the opponent who figures he's got nothing to gain by compromising anyway, all "being liberated" does is cause Obama to appear as wildly Marxist as he's been branded already. On the other hand, if he tries compromise he'll never be conservative enough and so he will fall short of what these GOPers demand.

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Wednesday November 03, 2010 · 12:25 PM PDT

2010/11/03 · 12:25

Barack Obama is an "organizer." This is the term he used to describe himself. I believe that when one looks closely at the rhetoric that presidents, and others, use to describe themselves you open up a valuable way of predicting their behaviors and motivations. I maintain that an organizer falls far short of a leader of a movement.

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Sunday March 21, 2010 · 8:05 AM PDT

2010/03/21 · 08:05

Although I'm very aware that this forum was, generally speaking, very pro-public option, I'm finding myself surprised that there is so little enthusiasm here - on the level of an election -with regards to the pending HC vote.

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Tuesday June 23, 2009 · 1:31 PM PDT

2009/06/23 · 13:31

I've been to D-Kos back and forth for some time now. Before I arrived I was an observer of internet culture, having been involved in the Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs) and the like long ago (like the mid-1980s). If there's one thing you know about the virtual community, it is that as soon as you think you know it, it changes. That being the case, I tried to determine years ago (around 2003) what DKos "really" was and what it was going to be. Well, I'm back for a while, and I'm very pleased at what I see.

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Wednesday January 28, 2009 · 6:43 PM PST

2009/01/28 · 18:43

I have been having a discussion with other rhetorical scholars, a Politico reporter, as well as discussions with various interested observers. I've developed some ideas about the Obama philosophy that I believe will help us understand what to expect from this man as he continues to govern for the next few years. The benefits of these observations, I believe, will be to help us put his relationship with Republicans into perspective.

In short, my thesis is that he is quite honest when he says says we need to rise above ideologies or "worn out dogmas." That, however, is not in and of itself an ideology. Nope. His "ideology" is really an anti-ideology. He doesn't fall comfortably into categories of right or left wing thought. He's a scholar of the enlightenment tradition. He's an empiricist. He believes in evidence and results.

I think if you get this, you could actually begin writing his speeches.

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Thursday October 02, 2008 · 9:57 PM PDT

2008/10/02 · 21:57

I haven't written a diary here in a short while, and I've been patiently waiting for people to make certain arguments and they haven't been. I suspect this has more to do with people knowing more than I do, and a discipline about not muddling the argument (I think Obama is one of the most disciplined campaigners we've had in a long, long time).

Anyway, this diary is as much a diary as it is an invitation to others to participate, to brainstorm, arguments that Obama/Biden could be making but haven't been. And who knows, perhaps after his post-debate scotch Biden will visit DKos and see some of our ideas (doubt it - though an advisor might).

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DailyKos Website Nightmare

D Kos Interface

Bankrupting Private Student Loans - WH Petition

Unions - Let's Do Better

Eat the Rich FB Page

Agnostic on Tax Cut Deal

McConnell Strategy

"Organizing" versus Championing a Movement

Where are the "Live Updates" at DKos?

Watching grass grow - into a forest.

The Obama Philosophy: Philosophy of "Responsibility."

Missed Lines of Argument: Join In