Ok, I come to this discussion late. I'm not very good a snap judgments or "liveblogging" or instant commentary. I like to go over things in my head, get some sleep, do something completely unrelated, and then come back to the subject later. Way later, sometimes. But I wanted to throw two cents in on this.
I, like several others on this board, have discussed the I/P conflict for sometime. I will make no bones about the fact that I consider myself to be strongly pro-Israel in that side of the debate, although I am just as adamantly pro-peace.
I take Hunter's admonition re: the need to clean up the discussion seriously. Some diaries, or at least the following comments, have become so outlandish that they have been a source of embarrasment to the site. Hunter works his ass off to keep a clean forum, and does not have double standards for points of view he would otherwise agree to.
Since then, there were certain diarists who came forward with constructive suggestions. There were others who completely ignored Hunter's request and continued to spam the boards. As it happens, most if not all of these diarists are people that that were explicitly recruited by a banned user.
So I'll make one suggestion. There should be no serial cross posting from blogs that are dedicated to the subject of I/P, or reposting stale entries from other sites.
In other words, dailykos is not a spot for syndication of the I/P debate that is currently going on in the blogosphere.
Nothing is wrong with cross-posting per se. If this site can serve as an incubator for other blogs that catch on, then that's great.
But this has been grotesquely abused by some people. If you want to discuss I/P, fine. If you really, really feel the need to compose diaries on this regularly, you can do that too. But I say that the mods should delete diaries, and perhaps ban accounts, that are just being used to send a daily spark into the I/P flame war.
This would not completely solve the problem. There are still too many diaries and comments (and I'm not wholly innocent here), that are ill-tempered, one sided, and provocative. But banning the "syndicated" diaries that start most of these discussions would remove the squib that starts many of the larger conflagrations, as well as get rid of some of the diaries that have wound up as an embarassment to the site.