I expect an increase in new diarists (henceforth known as “New Users”) over the next 100 days. It seems to me that primary season probably brought an influx of Sanders supporters. It also seems to me that election season always brings an influx of New Users.
Is it time to run a series of “Welcome New Users” diaries and outreach. When was the last time that was done?
For starters, we have these:
Diary guidelines can be found here
DK4 FAQ can be found here
FAQ tag search can be found here
Google search for “dailykos Welcome New Users can be found here
Hide Rating a quick guide
Trusted User Guidelines can be found here
A Proposal
Let us have another site wide discussion of who we are and how things are supposed to work around here.
We need to make another effort to define what dKos is and is not. There are certainly thousands of users who have been doing this for a while who understand how things are generally, (or historically?) done around here.
I would be happy to take part in this effort. i have some time over the next few weeks. I would gladly volunteer to post some diaries and monitor some discussion threads answering questions and pointing to the correct links.
In the meantime:
Try reading "memo to the world" written by dear leader kos in 2004.
This is a Democratic blog, a partisan blog. One that recognizes that Democrats run from left to right on the ideological spectrum, and yet we're all still in this fight together.
Liberal? Yeah, we're around here and we're proud. But it's not a liberal blog. It's a Democratic blog with one goal in mind: electoral victory.
And since we haven't gotten any of that from the current crew, we're one more thing: a reform blog.
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The battle for the party is not an ideological battle. It's one between establishment and anti-establishment factions. And as I've said a million times, the status quo is untenable.
But it has nothing to do with ideology, and those who continue painting the battle in those colors is nothing more than a dishonest shill in the best tradition of Karl Rove and gang.
If this effort is not needed, or has been done recently:
- Kindly disregard this diary.
- Reply POSNAD.
- Reply NOT A DIARY, DELETE
Thanks for taking the time.
Your humble gravlax
UPDATE:
I just caught a spelling mistake in my poll. Sorry about that. Guess you still can’t edit polls, huh?