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Oceanblaze17's avatar

Glad you left DKos—some of the DKos front posters were too far left.

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michaelflutist's avatar

As a socialist, that was definitely not a problem for me. My main problem was laid out in the last DKE Weekend Open Thread, in which I mentioned how I was very unpleasantly surprised by the level and sustained quantity of intemperate vituperation in recommended diaries about President Biden being "betrayed" by "billionaire donors" to "subvert democracy" and eliminate progressivism - that kind of stuff. And as I clarified, it wasn't the arguments that bothered me, but the lack of reasoned arguments from quite a few users who instead engaged in screaming, accusations of a kind of treason and a cult of personally. Fortunately, that all died down pretty quickly after President Biden made his decision, but it was a very graphic display of the kinds of users who downgrade the quality of thought and argumentation at Daily Kos.

All that said, when SSP moved to Daily Kos, I was concerned that being under the umbrella of an avowedly partisan site would degrade the quality of discussions in response threads, and though we lost almost all the conservative folks who had participated at SSP and did risk occupying a liberal bubble, for the most part, that didn't happen. Instead, the last 13 years were generally excellent, additional terrific staff members came on, and various great posters found us from the wider DK community or through other means.

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David Nir's avatar

"Instead, the last 13 years were generally excellent, additional terrific staff members came on, and various great posters found us from the wider DK community or through other means."

Concur with all of this!

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michaelflutist's avatar

By the way, what was your moniker on Daily Kos? Mine was MichaelNY.

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