I used to like Daily Kos. I used to like it a lot. I haven't been a member of the community there for very long--not long enough to know its ways. But I liked feeling as though I was surrounded by like-minded people capable of making good arguments, who cared about contemporary issues.
I don't sit there and read the site 24 hours a day. On March 27, Armando of Daily Kos posted a diary about a person who at the time I had never heard of, Garance Franck-Ruta of The American Prospect, discontinuing his or her connection with Daily Kos over the question of anonymity. The next day, a poster that I had never heard of before, BlueBeliever, posted a diary calling for front pagers to tell us more about themselves.
I was all in favor of that. I'm not from the blog world originally--and where I come from, credentials are not looked down upon or sneered at. In the course of the thread, I got sworn at quite a bit, but was also exposed to a new theory of authentication that I had never been exposed to before--that in blogs, people earn their credentials through good writing and group approval.
So far so good--I learned something. And I moved on from there. I posted some posts, I earned some mojo. And then I came back to Daily Kos this evening to see that I've been kicked off the site. I've been "disappeared." An electronic firing squad has taken my persona to the big, evil sports arena in the sky, assassinated me, and then buried my pixillated bones in the desert somewhere.
I'm very disillusioned with Daily Kos.
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