I've been thinking about the upcoming transition to DK4 and the increasing commentary on what it will or will not become, and the calls of some to pre-emptively leave as a result.
I don't get it.
I've been here a long time and there have been many times, especially lately, where I have been hanging on by my mental fingernails. I have been disgusted and disheartened by some of the garbage I see here. The pie fights, the ego stroking, the brilliant flashes of inspiration that smell more like a dirty diaper.
But I've never thought of packing it all in. And now we have DK4 on the horizon, and it promises to be different. It promises to be easier to find good content and easier to avoid bad content. Whether it lives up to that promise, at the very least what it will be is NOT set in stone and it still has the power and promise to be whatever the hell YOU want it to be.
Be a leader. Be a follower. Be a producer. Be a consumer. You can do it however you want it. And people are leaving because they don't like the fonts or the color or think it's going to get MORE clicquie (is that even really possible at this point? Really?).
Be a follower if you don't have time to be a leader. Be a consumer if you don't have it in you anymore to be a producer. But leaving entirely? It just doesn't make sense to me. There is so much here, and that is not going to change with DK4. It will be more than politics. It will be pooties and gardening and photoblogging and discussions and debates and everything else. But it will be whatever YOU want it to be. you are being given the power to govern what dailykos is for you.
Why is that such a bad thing?