The 30 Kafkaesque Rules of DailyKos

Time these rules get a little more attention.

1.  There is no actual community moderation at DailyKos.  Only Kos or designees have final say on whether a comment is permissible. 

2.  Nobody in the community other than Kos or designees can trigger an autoban of another user.  The Scoop programs does not have this feature.

3.  Any administrator has the power to ban any user for any reason or no reason at all within 30 seconds.  You do not have to violate any site rules to be banned and you may violate hundreds of site rules and not be banned.  In short, bannings are arbitrary, capricious, illogical, and intellectually dishonest.

4.  Outing members is an automatic ban and the morally reprehensible thing to do unless a Koshole does it in which case the administrator conveniently forgets to press that ban button.  

5.  The use of certain words is an automatic HR for uncivil discourse unless of course a Koshole uses said word in which case the site does not explicitly ban cursing.  In said case, said comment may be uprated.

6.  If you uprate a comment that uses certain words, that is an HR offense unless a Koshole does it. If you HR a Koshole who has done it, you have committed ratings abuse and may have your rating privileges taken away even though no one Hred you for it.

7.  All problems are to be brought to the attention of an administrator.  If your problem is with an Koshole, it will be ignored.  If a Koshole has a problem with you, the problem will be acted upon as they wish.  Welcome to Franz Kafka's world for if you complain about an koshole, you are scarlet lettered.

8.  You may comment in any diary or thread so long as it is on topic and civil. Moreover, generally speaking you should try to avoid contact with people you are having a conflict with. Thus, if a Koshole disrupts a thread with uncivil discourse with a user they are having a conflict with, this is permissible because nobody can tell them what diaries they can and can't comment on.  Likewise, if you comment civilly in a thread in response to a Koshole that you are having a conflict with, you are breaking the rules of the site and should have your ability to comment taken away.

9.  You may not reveal a person's prior screen name. This is an automatic ban.  However, if a Koshole does it, it is automatic that the person does not get banned.

10.  Past comments of any Koshole should never be used to show the hypocrisy and dishonesty of any Koshole nor justification for a troll rating. If you do this, you are playing games and setting up false frames.  This can be an HR offense in and of itself.  Of course any Koshole can drudge up any past comment of yours because context always matters.

11.  You may not uprate comments out of troll alley unless one of the Kosholes is in troll alley. (as has happened to Major Flaw 25+ times)

12.  Anyone caught sending private emails urging others to uprate or troll rate should be banned because these people need to get a life and are manipulating the system. However, it is okay for any Koshole to do just this.

13.  Anybody can post at DailyKos.  Most are liberal but even conservatives are welcome so long as they are polite.  But if the Kosholes don't like you, you are not allowed to post at Daily Kos no matter how polite you are.

14.  Personal attacks are strongly discouraged.  However, Kosholes are always allowed to engage in personal attacks.  If you point out politely that an asshole is engaging in a personal attack, you are personally attacking the koshole.  It is also okay for Kosholes to uprate comments that are personal attacks because any troll rating given to a Koshole was a TR with someone they were having a conflict with and thus the TR was inappropriate.

15.  You may make substantive criticisms of a Democratic candidate so long as Kos agrees with this substantive criticism.  Otherwise you are a troll and you may be purged from the site.

16.  You may not hide posts merely for disagreeing with the commenter. This is ratings abuse. Kosholes are exempt from this rule.

17.  You may not troll rate someone you are having an active fight with.  However, any Koshole can do just this merely because the comment deserves a troll rating not the user.  

18.  You may not give positive ratings to people having fights in the comments section unless of course you are a Koshole in which case said uprates are always appropriate because someone is picking on the Koshole.  

19.  Only Kosholes can give retaliatory troll ratings.  Anyone else who does so loses his or her ratings privileges.

20.  Daily Kos is a reality based community defined only by the surreal world of the Kosholes which is anything but reality.  Their purpose is to drive 95% of Democrats away from the site.  They are succeeding.

21.  You may not enter a diary with the primary purpose of disrupting and inciting the thread.  Kos rules state that this is the key definition of a troll and that it always warrants a HR. However, any Asshole who deliberately enters a diary with the purpose to disrupt or incite should never be Hred because they have a right to comment in any diary.

22. A Koshole may always "TR for personal attack" and then engage in worse personal attacks either minutes before or minutes after.  

23.  If you  point out that a Koshole has outed someone's real name you may be warned for "following another member around" but the Asshole will remain a member in good standing.

24.  Giving HR ratings to any Koshole is an abuse of ratings privilege. They are always unjustified even if you cite the exact rule. In fact you will be given a "TR for ratings abuse" in return which of course is not retaliatory.

25.  You should not give HR ratings to anyone you are in a personal conflict with.  However, if a Koshole gives an HR to someone they are in conflict with, this is permissible because they were just HRing the individual comment.

26.  It is always ratings abuse to HR an individual comment merely because of the user.   However any Koshole who HRs such a comment may do so for he or she is Hring "in context" of the history of the user.  

27.  Not all viewpoints, even if shared by the majority of elected Democrats, may be discussed at DailyKos.  The rule that you may discuss any issue related to Democrats so long as you do so civilly and politely does not apply in this case because it does not apply in this case.

28.  Nothing you post at another site shall be cause to ban you from posting at DailyKos.  However, if a Kostapo administrator does not like what you are posting at another site, you may be banned.

29.  There is a statute of limitations to some offenses at DailyKos.  Thus, any Kostapo member who commited an offense that is an automatic ban can not be banned if the offense was 4 months ago as that was past the statute of limitations.  However, you may be banned for an unsupported offense that is far less serious if that occurred 8 months ago.  That is within the statute of limitations.

30.  It is okay if Kos or one of his Kostapo outs your personal information, attacks a user's family members, suggests sodomizing or electroshocking commenters they disagree with, or engaging in the most vicious forms of cyberbullying in Internet history.  But it is not okay to disagree with Kos.

 

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