Aug 25 2007
thinking about blogging the future… and just decided to throw some stuff out
blogging the future tense
blogging the fourth wall
breaking the fourth wall
blogging the salon
thread bare
blogging the navel
blogging the gate
extreme blogging
i don’t know why i’m doing this because, while i LOVE titles, i am not good at them (or headlines)
but i love when two or three words can knock me on my ass
Aug 25 2007
The Dawn of the Information Age and DailyKos
by pinche tejano
Wed Aug 09, 2006 at 12:01:28 PM PST
I remember when I first came by here, it was off a link from Buzzflash!, which is still in my daily news rotation. Back then; I made the daily rounds of everything from Little Green Footballs to Crooks and Liars and the always the amusing Drudgereport. See, I plan to be a historical writer when I get long in the tooth, and I was looking for something, I just did not know what it was yet. I could see a subset of the Internet evolving into something, put since it did not exist yet, I could not put my finger on it. Then I came across DailyKos.
Arriving just before the post-Katrina user explosion, I gladly signed up and was assigned user 60118, and I recently heard DKos was about to break 100,000, which probably has happened during the epic CT-Senate week. It is said week that I was waiting for, because I have a good eye for picking horses, and I knew this is where Dkos was headed. Remember this day, this week my friends, because you, as community, have finally got your foot in the gate. Always knew you would. You, as a community, have combined all the right parts to make something special.
Aug 24 2007
Based on a total Wild West NO moderator, flame wars encouraged policy.
FLH, hrh…and all your favs!
Should be fun …and instructional.
I have a diary up!
Can’t we all get along?
Aug 24 2007
Based on a total Wild West NO moderator, flame wars encouraged policy.
FLH, hrh…and all your favs!
Should be fun …and instructional.
I have a diary up!
http://politicalfles…
Aug 24 2007
I have gone around and around on this and then finally it struck me why I could not write the FAQ on Moderation.
Under the roughly Anarcho-syndicalist community consensus system I have envisioned, it is not mine to write!
I see this place as somewhere where we all have a voice in what happens, where we all decide where we are going. Decide TOGETHER….as much as is humanly possible….a government by consensus. It might work, it might be chaos, but I think it is worth a try.
So the decision on how to moderate the site is not mine. It is all of ours. I have to set the structure….but the details are up to all of us! So consider this the beginning of the Moderation Wiki, which just like the rest of the blog is an ongoing experiment is community and consensus.
Here is my proposal for the structure.
I am the final arbiter, the court of last appeal, the breaker of ties. The top of the Pyramid. The buck stops…after a no doubt long and arduous and much debated journey….here. The community is ‘The Decider’ not me.
If the community is divided I will step in and make a decision…and take full responsibility for it.
So….that is one part of the structure. But we can discuss that too! It is MY (How Conveeenient!) opinion and observation that there needs to be someone who utters the final word when all other conversation has broken down. So proceeding from there….
Here is what I can see working.
A dreaded Hierarchical System.
The other end of the structure is ALL USERS.
‘Above’ that is Trusted Users.
‘Above’ that I propose a case by case Committee of Trusted Users, selecting ….if possible….folks who seem to be neutral on the current controversy and thus the most objective.
If consensus can still not be reached and the situation calls for resolution, I step in as Zen Dictator ( I like nifty titles, sue me) and render a verdict.
And that is how I PROPOSE we deal with stuff like trolls, banning or any other issues that divide or inflame the community. Polls and vigorous debate in essays and Open Threads, finally leading to enough of a consensus to be clear.
OK……it feels lame…but that is the best I can come up with besides stuff like…
Be Excellent To Each Other. Don’t Start No Shit, And There Won’t Be No Shit. Live And Let Live. There Is no Crying In CalvinBall.
The floor is now open for discussion!
Aug 24 2007
Use this thread to report issues with comments.
The AJAX system is still having problems.
Where we stand with the AJAX Update
It looks like some of the bugs have been fixed but some SoapBlox sites have turned off AJAX until there is a fully functional version. So it is a cause for concern. We may have to do that too if it isn’t working properly before we launch.
I would like to get an idea of what problems, if any, people are seeing.
Aug 24 2007
So what is this place, and why are there dragons and tigers and horses on the banner?
And I’m looking at the folks here and I find this is a motley crew of sarcastic overly enthusiastic over the hill kossacks (and armando) and I see this slogan about “blogging the future” like maybe someone has a time machine or something?
And we have to use html and there’s all this talk about schedules and times and mission statements and rating systems that are all ponies and pies and hidden secret stuff.
Aug 23 2007
Please don’t promote or Recommend this diary. It will last long enough anyway.
Aug 23 2007
This is something that maybe only me and Melvin care about, but meet the next hopefuls for America’s Next Top Models!
Didn’t mean to have that on the front page, we should look into changing that button.
Aug 23 2007
This is something that maybe only me and Melvin care about, but meet the next hopefuls for America’s Next Top Models!
