As many of you know, I've defended the moderation here on MyDD fairly consistently, even through the "questionable" moves that they have made on this website, such as front page diaries bashing the Democratic nominee for "preening", taking away rec privliges from Obama supporters en masse during the Democratic Primary.
It appears that I was giving certain moderators on this board too much leeway on my critisisms.
Lo and behold, the diary entitled "Bill Clinton: I am a racist" had it's name moderated and then was removed from the recommended list, with a lack of explanation from the moderation of the site.
I find this idea interesting in of itself; simply because it seemed that the diary; while re-igniting the primaries wars in some ways; had also opened some what of a dialouge on what had been a very touchy subject between Clintonistas and Obamanauts--namely, the issue of race in the primary campaign and how it hurt or helped each person running.
However, it seems that Jerome (or whatever mod) seems to have missed the boat on this one. Considering this message, sent to me, after the title of the diary was changed:
Last warning. Follow the guidelines -- no inflammatory post titles -- or go somewhere else.
It's a sad day when the adminstrators of a site are so in a rush to assert thier dominance that they look over a snark title of a diary defending Bill Clinton, then provide no rational explanation for thier actions. Nothing is done to trolls; yet grassrootsorganizer got banned. People with more venom than Harriet Christian continue to post here; but when I start a diary with a simple premise of defending a two term Democratic President, I get a slap in the wrist over the title; obviously a diary that was not read.
What an interesting day at MyDD.
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