Poll: Eliminate User ID numbers?
Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 01:14:43 PM PDT
It doesn't take a Jerry Springer diary to know that User ID numbers play a significant role here.
What's up for debate is how constructive it is to have these numbers, and if the good outweighs the bad.
The good being it's fun and important to recognize the longstanding members of this community.
The bad being an occasional uprising of accusations of elitism and smarminess (justified or not).
So let's have a poll ...
ABC/Disney: Create a new word a la "santorum"
Fri Sep 08, 2006 at 10:49:58 PM PDT
Remember the days when googling "santorum" brought up the Jr. senator from Pennsylvania's home page? For anyone who hasn't in the past couple years, try it now.
Several years ago, readers of Dan Savage of The Stranger and Savage Love fame sent him possible definitions for the word "santorum." Dan picked the best one, and the rest was history.
It'd be cool if, as a comunity, we did this for ABC/Disney.
More on the flip.
Freep or be Silenced says News Channel 6 in NOLA
Tue Mar 28, 2006 at 07:43:54 PM PDT
Usually online polls are harmless bits of political trivia. Helpful to guage the interests of a large, participatory community like dailykos or myDD, but harmful when taken for more than trivia.
Today, News Channel 6 (WSDU) in New Orleans, in a cheap publicity stunt, has placed such a great and unfair weight on an online poll that freeping it is currently leading towards the silencing of the only Democratic voice in a Democratic City Council District in New Orleans.
They're dictating who they show on a candidate debate based on who wins their stupid online poll ... regardless of who has the most support.
Please, take just ten seconds to click on a link and fight back with your online vote.
Please read more.
Matt Brown in Rhode Island is Full of Crap
Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 11:42:51 AM PDT
Ok. So this really hit a pet peeve of mine: saying one thing while doing the other, especially under the guise of progressive reform.
This is what I've seen unfold over the past few days, where we've seen Rhode Island senate candidate Matt Brown campaign for campaign finance reform on one hand, and launder money through democratic party offices with the other.
This has been partly discussed on previous diaries here and here
But there's another Roll Call article from March 2nd that hasn't - to my knowledge - been discussed yet on kos yet that explains the situation even further. And it gets even more disturbing for Brown.
Read on:
