'meta' spirls like the one above on these diaries, this time beginning with Helen's comments

Helen's comments are bang smack on topic. Your diary is about IP on DKos, and she wrote about that in answer to your diary. You decided it was

shergald:

interminable meta crap

Which basically means to you, anything you don't want to see or hear.

However, there is "meta crap" coming from you even while you complain about it:

shergald:

you failed to recommend this diary

shergald:

Just one question: is ET a left-wing liberal site? And if not what party or parties are generally supported here, and not supported?

Finally,

shergald:

he never had to tolerate meta clashes with admins

None of the posters on this thread were editors, until Jerome a Paris commented.