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Now, can you tell us in what way this is on topic in your diary re DKos - while at the same time you maintain that Helen's comment re DKos is off topic?
 

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Oct 27th, 2010 at 11:27:43 AM EST
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To be fair, posting "newsflashes" like this as comments to his diaries was found to be a workable way to allow shergald to give a higher profile to news items than he believes that they would get in the Salon while not spamming the recent diary list with cut-and-paste jobs (I personally doubt they actually get more readers here than in the Salon, but that was the feeling he expressed at the time). I still think it's a workable solution. But then, I never had much of a problem with threads going off topic in the first place...

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Oct 27th, 2010 at 01:36:28 PM EST
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Re. Salon. Salon is about 50 times larger than ET and just for reference, Daily Kos is about 250 times larger in its lull moments. During elections, Daily Kos has had as many as 2 million daily visitors.

This diary about the banning of Tom J was actually about a great loss of publicity concerning the Palestinian plight. And that is why it was posted.

by shergald on Wed Oct 27th, 2010 at 02:11:49 PM EST
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Re. Salon. Salon is about 50 times larger than ET and just for reference,

Not Salon the web site. The Salon on ET. The yellow-themed thread on the front page.

This diary about the banning of Tom J was actually about a great loss of publicity concerning the Palestinian plight. And that is why it was posted.

I wasn't disagreeing with that.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Oct 27th, 2010 at 02:37:20 PM EST
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Meta is by definition off topic. Otherwise, see Jake.

by shergald on Wed Oct 27th, 2010 at 02:13:01 PM EST
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And on topic is anything you say.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Oct 27th, 2010 at 03:16:57 PM EST
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Well, here's an on topic flash:

Here today we have yet another banning at Daily Kos by the now infamous Meteor Blades, just two days after Tom J's demise. Hard to believe after reading the diary complaining about troll hijacking by the right wing Zionists, which is demonstrated in the diary itself (see the comments).

Even my merciful nature has its... (14+ / 0-)

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by Meteor Blades on Tue Oct 26, 2010 at 06:29:07 PM PDT

Ya gotta love it, the censorship, that is.

You can read the diary itself here and judge for yourself: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/26/913726/-Palestinethe-Daily-Kos:-Dog-whistles-Or-Google-Aler ts

by shergald on Wed Oct 27th, 2010 at 03:26:11 PM EST
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