Miss Mayta has been quietly lurking and calmly observing the chaos as Kossacks and Kogs find their way around DK4.
There have been a few tumbles into the yawning maw of the orange bit bucket but nearly everyone survived. The others perished ... never to be seen again and, quite frankly, their opinion does not matter any longer, does it? (Sorry. Miss Mayta is, above all, a realist)
So now it is time to survey the New World Order of DKos 4.0.2.
Please follow me below the Swirly Thing (watch out ... it tickles!)
First, I want to clarify Miss Mayta's membership in the Cranky Users group.
Of course, Miss Mayta is never Cranky (although she has been mildly put out lately by a few things ... she lives in Wisconsin, you know). The reason she appears under this banner (and what are those things up there? yikes!) is because the Blissfully Happy Users group has not yet been formed. While there are some Moderately Pleased Users and even some Pretty Darned Okay With It Users, there are still a few, how you say?, "programming challenges" left before we can declare the site Perfect in Every Way.
So on to the letters ...
Dear Miss Mayta,
Lately I have been feeling like a failure. Or rather I have been told I am a failure by The Internets (which are never wrong). When I click the Recommend circle on someone's comment, the comment does not show as Recommended. When I click it again, it shows as Failed. But not always! Just often enough for me to internalize it! If my friends see that I rec'ed someone else's comment and not theirs, I worry that their feelings will be hurt. I want to leave a Reply on every comment telling the user I tried to Recommend them. How else will my friends know that I still love them?
Signed,
Failure in KossackIckStan
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Dear KISed,
Oh, dear! I understand how terrible you must feel ... first for being feeling like a failure and second for worrying about how your friends will feel about your failure to recommend their comments. While leaving replies to dozens of comments in a diary would certainly let your friends know that you were not ignoring them, or ::shudder:: did not like them, we think it might ruin the flow of the comment threads if your "I REC'ED YOU N/T" was in every other comment. I have always found it best to assume that all of my comments are rec'ed. Although be aware that "air recs" are not reflected in the mojo.
Dear Miss Mayta,
I had 145 followers (or ♥ers if you prefer) and now I have 144. I know who un-followed me (I have the list memorized) and I am unsure exactly how to deal with this slight. I could Tweet a diary calling them out, I could ignore it or I could just stop rec'ing their comments.
Signed,
♥ broken in the Great Creamsicle Satan
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Dear ♥less,
Please do not Tweet a diary. Miss Mayta nearly lost her well documented unflappability when she clicked on an interesting looking diary the other day and found it to contain less than 140 characters. That may be pushing the limits of those who have sworn off "NOT A DIARY" and we do not recommend revisiting that part of our Old World Order (aka 'the good old days'). This is indeed a dilemma because as you can see from the last letter, not all actual recs are even being treated as recs. If you stop rec'ing no one will know if you are silently withholding affection or just being a failure. We suggest that you simply enjoy your other 144 followers and do not worry about your lost follower. Or blame it on an accidental un-followate. One of the great things about DKos 4.0 is that you can always blame it on a glitch!!
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By the way, there is one thing that Miss Mayta is Very Cranky about and that is Daylight Savings Time starting tonight. Tonight (or early Sunday morning while Miss Mayta is sleeping) the clocks will Spring Ahead depriving her of much needed beauty rest.
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About Miss Mayta: Born a perfect blogger in an imperfect Internet society, Miss Mayta is the pioneer mother of today’s EtiKos movement. Her tireless efforts to expand the understanding and exercise of EtiKos beyond the stereotypical terror of not having enough Cheetos will probably not only escape official notice but may result in cries of "NOT A DIARY!!". As a manners-free existence can lead to frequent HRination, dysfunctional online communities and keyboard rage we call out for, nay!, demand a return to common courtesy...and the fork on the left side of the plate (even though that makes no sense at all).
(With apologies to Judith Martin)