First, let me say this:
I value this place. It is one of my places on the net, and the people in it are some of my people on the net. This matters to me, because I need to have a place where I can visit and connect with the people and the politics that I most closely identify with. When it goes this badly here, it hurts. It hurts me, others, you, whether or not you realize it.
Community moderation doesn't work, unless a significantly large fraction of said community adheres to some basic standards.
That isn't happening.
Additionally, DK4 is set to scale to a much larger size, with a lot more discussion, actions, advocacy, news, and community in play. Whether or not you buy into the idea that will have some real impact on the politics, and I do frankly, it's very difficult to deny the negative impact of such a hostile, divided community will have on a larger, less close DK4.
Come on folks!
This is the same crap the GOP has done to the nation, pitting us against one another, convincing us that our priorities involve some fucked up memes really only useful for division and dilution, not solidarity in our common needs as people.
Do we really want to scale that up? Do we really believe in the Progressive movement, or is it more about who is right and who is wrong?
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