The other day I wrote a fairly mundane diary about Hillary Clinton's presidential prospects. Here's a comment that someone wrote:
Hmm, a pro-McCain post and now this feces falafel? (6+ / 2-)
BTW, that's like a shit sandwich only served up O'Reilly style. So your concerns are duly noted and promptly ignored. Hell, and I don't even like Hillary for President.
The 2016 GOP presidential contenders are a laundry list of pop psychology diagnoses mixed with toxic quantities of dark money. What could possibly go wrong?
by ontheleftcoast on Tue Mar 03, 2015 at 11:14:42 PM EST
At first I ignored the comment but then I thought about it a little and it bothered me. When did DailyKos become a place where such comments are common place?
Look through many diaries, people are so quick to look up someone's user ID and their past comments and declare that they are trolls or bad people or whatever.
Come on people. Next time you see something you disagree with, you don't need to look up the person's User ID. You don't need to look at their past diaries. You can just not write anything at all! Or you can write: I disagree with you.
Next time you see something that doesn't quite have your political leaning, you don't have to accuse the person of being a traitor or a Republican.
Recently Curt Schilling posted something about his high-school daughter on Facebook, and many people wrote back with threats against his daughter. And Curt Schilling went and found the people that wrote that and made sure they got fired. And I think he had a point. It's not OK to be mean or abusive. Especially at DailyKos, I would think.
So next time instead of being a jerk, try to be a decent person. And if you see someone being a jerk, make sure to throw them a donut and let them know, its not OK.