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MyDA (or, time to tweak MyDD)

by skjold, Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 01:38:53 AM EST

My daily Alegre...

Seriously, 3 recommended diaries at once? You know something here is broken when this kind of thing is allowed. Hey Jerome, or whoever runs this place, why don't you hire this person and make it official?

So Alegre, you're a democrat, right? Ready to fight for whoever the nominee is come November?

Update: I'm retiring for the night, but there's a nice little discussion below on some of the areas where MyDD needs a little work. Because with some simple tweaks, it could be a much better site. Amirite?

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Re: MyDA (2.00 / 1)

It'll be fun to see what happens after Obama gets the nomination.

Hooray for John McCain!

by ragekage on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 01:43:31 AM EST

Re: MyDA (2.00 / 3)

I don't know about 'fun'... I think there'll be alot of bitterness, if you catch my drift.

by skjold on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 01:50:57 AM EST
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Re: MyDA (2.00 / 1)

lol

Hooray for John McCain!

by ragekage on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:18:20 AM EST
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Re: MyDA (2.00 / 3)

They'll retreat to Hillaryis44, which I predict will either change it's name to Hillaryis48.org or simply explode into a dazzling pink supernova.

Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing glove.

by fogiv on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 03:38:29 AM EST
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Re: MyDA (2.00 / 3)

This is honestly what I believe. MyDD is only on the must-blog list for some of the Hillis44 people because this is one of the few venues where they still have a numbers advantage and can post the most vitrolic tripe against a Democratic candidate and not be laughed out of the room. Once the nomination is clinched, the few impartial blogs they're currently setting up shop in will quickly become much less tolerant of their tactics.

by upstate girl on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 04:38:11 AM EST
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Re: MyDA (2.00 / 1)

"or simply explode into a dazzling pink supernova."

hoot!

John McCain: Cheney with a temper

by wrb on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 10:48:36 AM EST
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Re: MyDA (none / 0)

i hope they have someone around to clean up the exploded heads!! lol it'll be messy

by Flapper on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 06:50:07 AM EST
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Re: MyDA (2.00 / 1)

I thought this was going to be about Perry Mason, Della Street, and Hamilton Burger.

But I have to agree, no person should have more than one diary on the rec list. If a person's newer diary reaches the rec threshold, the older one should scroll off.

by johnnygunn on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:07:27 AM EST

Re: MyDA (2.00 / 1)

I agree. This site seems a bit quirky in many ways. For example, I was able to write a dairy the moment I signed up. That is insane! Do you realize how many trolls are going to take advantage of that? They should probably enforce a week long wait.

by skjold on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:16:58 AM EST
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Re: MyDA (2.00 / 2)

That's why we have all these random people showing up, writing nonsensical diaries which cite right wing propaganda, and calling other diarists "liberal pukes". There definitely needs to be a waiting period.

Even John McCain lusts after teh engels.

by sricki on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:20:55 AM EST
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Re: MyDA (2.00 / 1)

Exactly. That's why you have diaries like this one, also. Maybe a minimum word count is in order as well?

by skjold on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:24:12 AM EST
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Re: MyDA (2.00 / 4)

I don't know whether that would work, though. Some of the more determined imbeciles around here would probably just write a one sentence diary and then type gibberish at the bottom to make it long enough. Diaries would start to look more like:

OBAMA HATES SMALL TOWNS, and/or HILLARY STILL SHILLING FOR GOP!!!

dafjasfjd afkjdadfj afkjf;djaf fdafdjsk word word more words i hav 2 get this diary 2 post so i am writing words sfadjfadfj lots of them yes obama hates my diary because it was written in a small town caucuses are undemocratic. hillary killed vince foster obamas a muslim k thx bye

...Or, to put it more succinctly, let's just say that people would find their way around a word minimum.

Even John McCain lusts after teh engels.

by sricki on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:33:03 AM EST
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Re: You Gotta Problem?? (2.00 / 3)

Děsný, co?" "Drž hubu a sestoupíte do příklopu, který leží přesně říct, že byl zatavený model se Arthur. "Myslím, že člověk musel novou myšlenku nahlas přeslabikovat. "Vy tomu říkáte takovéhle věci Trillian. "Stará historie," vysvětloval vesele svítilo - ještě jsme letěli vnitřkem duté koule se tiše vznášelo chladnou tmou, přestože nic neděje, pak jim vypálíme rybník. Fanouši, kamaráde, máme namířeno?" "Do prkený vohrady," vypadlo dno poslednímu pivu. "Cože?"

by johnnygunn on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:36:07 AM EST
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Re: MyDA (2.00 / 1)

No, I believe it does work as a deterrent. Or at least, I've seen it work on other sites, such as Dailykos (or, "the Big Orange Satan" as it's become endeared here).

by skjold on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:37:27 AM EST
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Re: MyDA (none / 0)

From what I can tell....the length of time one is a registered user has no bearing on one's likelihood of being a troll. The worst trolls seem to be users that have been here a good while...not the new members.

by Kysen on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:36:34 AM EST
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Re: MyDA (none / 0)

Well, it wouldn't hurt to put a time limit.

And I think it would help a great deal as a deterrent. For the most part, trolls want immediate satisfaction and reaction.

by skjold on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:39:47 AM EST
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Re: MyDA (none / 0)

There's a sleeper cell at MyDD?

by rfahey22 on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:40:38 AM EST
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Re: MyDA (none / 0)

I will get my spec ops team on it right now!!

;o)

LOL

MyDD will be awesome once we have a nominee.

NO 100 year WAR, NO McConnell run Senate, & NO GOP-led Supreme Court!!!

by Veteran75 on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 09:31:02 AM EST
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Her diaries are popular (1.50 / 2)

Jealous?

Linfar's co-blogger opposing John McCain

by psychodrew on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:17:55 AM EST

Re: Her diaries are popular (2.00 / 3)

Oh, yeah. I wish I had the skill to cut and paste something and have it automatically hit the rec list. I'm awful jealous.

Hooray for John McCain!

by ragekage on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:19:11 AM EST
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Re: Her diaries are popular (2.00 / 1)

Yeah...someone should make a diary about the balance of copied material versus actual "work product" that is acceptable in a diary. I have a problem when a diary is essentially a cut-and-paste job from a candidate's official website, with a "What s/he said" thrown in a few times between the copied paragraphs.

by rfahey22 on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:29:09 AM EST
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Re: Her diaries are popular (2.00 / 1)

Yeah, I definitely saw some 'fair use' abuse in those diaries.

by skjold on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:30:40 AM EST
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Re: Her diaries are popular (1.66 / 3)

LOL no. Not a fan of this site, really.

To me, a recommended dairy would be like playing king of the hill on a dung-heap.

by skjold on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:22:35 AM EST
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Re: Her diaries are popular (none / 0)

Also, it's not her fault that she has 3 recommended diaries up right now- she wrote about something she feels strongly about, and she has an audience. But maybe a bit too much of the platform?

Which again, is not her fault. But somethings not right with the site itself, it seems to me, and it could easily be fixed.

by skjold on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:56:40 AM EST
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Re: MyDA (2.00 / 3)

I think certain diarists are just automatically rec'd by posters here. That's about the only way to explain the fact that the 17th, 39th, and 112th diary on this subject (sort of kidding) all end up on the list.

by rfahey22 on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:18:19 AM EST

Your estimate isn't far off. (2.00 / 4)

Has anyone ever bothered to do a count to see how many diaries each successive "scandal" spawns? I'd be interested to know how many NAFTA, Wright, Rezko, and bittergate diaries there have been. But not quite interested enough to find out for myself.

Even John McCain lusts after teh engels.

by sricki on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 02:23:46 AM EST
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What you are really saying... (2.00 / 3)

Man the free speech at MYDD is getting out of hand.

People are able to recommend diaries and some of the writers are liked by other people more than me.

Can we change the rules so that we all take turns being popular rather than by straight democratic voting?

Sometimes I don't like the views of the popular writers and want their diaries to be restricted in some way.

And some of the popular diaries are short. Is there some way that we can burden the writing of diaries so that only the VERY committed can write them? Kind of like a caucus for diaries so that only the very committed voices are heard not just the regular people who don't want to spend 2 hours on a diary like many people do at dailykos adding pics and graphics etc.

You know can we make it more like dailykos so that I have 2 places to go when I want to read diaries of people who agree with me and 0 places to go where people don't agree with me...

by DTaylor on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 03:04:17 AM EST

Re: What you are really saying... (2.00 / 3)

You're so right! This site is PERFECT the way it is! This way we can keep the amount of visitors down, so we have an even cozier community!

by skjold on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 03:10:52 AM EST
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Re: What you are really saying... (2.00 / 1)

Very well put :-)

No candidacy is more important than the right to vote.

by hornplayer on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 03:35:21 AM EST
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