You are all driving me freaking crazy. Seriously! Both sides of the stupid pie fight are acting like goddamn children.
I feel like I have been here for awhile. I have gotten one comment HR in the entire time that I have been here. I was pretty pissed off about it but then I moved on and learned to write clearer more concise comments that were in zero danger of being HR.
I have gotten some random fly by flags with this new system. But you know what, who cares. They were stupid flags that said more about the individual flagger than anything I said. They didn’t affect my mojo so I don’t care.
I get that there is abuse going on and it needs to be addressed. BUT in the meanwhile, here is how to help yourself not get flagged.
1. STAY THE F out of obnoxious diaries. I could give you a short list of people I would never click on their name or stories because they are full of nonsense and shit. I’m sure most people on this blog have a short list. But life is too short for me to go roll around in the dirt with assholes. I’m way to smart to engage with the pure crap that they let flow out onto this website. Why give the clicks or page views or even time. For every obnoxious diary, go read someone you have never heard of.
2. Police your own side. There are jerks on both sides. One side is going to be busier than the other but that’s life. If you see someone on your side acting like a jerk, go write them a message and tell them to fucking knock it the fuck off.
3. Understand that during primary season, people seem to lose their ever freaking minds. There are people I’m currently giving the side eye too...I’m sure after the primary, we will go back to being friends but right now we are like the Thanksgiving dinner table. Your mom has specifically warned you not to talk to your cousin Jimmy about x or god fucking help you, she will ground your adult ass to the kiddy table.
4. Think about what you are recommending. Are you contributing to positive or negative on this site. Are you helping your candidate/issue or just adding to the noises. Is this diary original, new, give an interesting point of view? Seriously, is it something we haven’t heard three million times over and over again.
5. Go take a walk. Go get some fresh air. Go visit another website. The intertube is a huge place. Go read a book. For every nasty comment you post, go make a phone call for your candidate.
And if you still can’t follow these simple rules, find another website. If your preferred candidate doesn’t win and you can’t handle that...well DKos isn’t going to be the place for you.
Rant over.
One minor update: Dear efling, if we are ever in the same place, I will buy you tons of beer for all the crap you put up with around here.