Markos used to be a Republican. He'll be just fine.

Didn't you see this covered on msnbc, this is a big deal.

And we should care about this why?

Those statistics are meaningless.  Site hits are one of the easiest stats in the world to manipulate.  

I'm new here.  Does this blog have a function that allows you to troll-rate an entire diary?

politics here. Nothing about any candidate who may or may not be "running" for some "office"

But to stop hurting ourselves by going there.

I prefer more objective info:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffi c_details/dailykos.com

The point was and is self-respect.

Why stay around a place where you are insulted on a regular basis?
Why stay to listen to outright lies about your candidate and your fellow supporters?

Who needs it?  

As for Markos and his sitemeter, who cares?  

Thanks for your insightful, thoughtful diary.

A link and a sentence.

nobody's trying to "hurt" markos. he does that so well himself that any puny efforts on our part would be meaningless. it's about having enough self-respect not to put up with abuse.

charts show a clear drop in this last week's numbers (March 14-19) when compared to the previous week and when compared to the corresponding week a month ago.

b) As someone already commented, it's not about hurting KOS financially it's about taking our voices out of his toxic domain and finding better places to post to.

"First, these people should read up on the definition of 'strike.' What they're doing is a 'boycott.' But whatever they call it, I think it's great. It's a big Internet, so I hope they find what they're looking for."

His numbers the past five days seem to be 10% to 15% off their corresponding days the previous week.  The previous week had the Wyoming caucus and Mississippi primary - but this week has had plenty of political buzz with Obama's issues and the revotes. I believe that they boycott HAS had an impact.  A longterm drop of 15% would be seriously bad news for DailyKos.

Who cares!  I used to go to DailyKos many times a day.  I now visit a couple times a week.  

On a side note, I was watching the MSM and polls are showing Obama slipping in national lead.  Some now show Hillary ahead.  Remember when Obama was ahead, that was all we heard Obama supporters talk about? Now they are all saying that we shouldn't care about national polls because they don't matter.

That couldn't possibly listen to themselves talk, could they?

are the LEAST important aspect, its more about the rude atmosphere and so on...

I don't really care whether it helps or hurts.  It's an unhealty place to be.  Good intellectual posters were being replaced everyday by juvenile impulsive abusive posters.  The number of hits may not have drastically dropped but the quality has, that was mentioned over and over again by many who left before we did.  Quality vs. Quantity.  I choose the first.

Well, I knew I had a personal boycott going on. Good on everyone else for finally joining me! <snark>

I caught the boycott coverage on O'Reilly last night, and it made me really sad for the Democratic Party.

Clinton Adviser Jehmu Greene appeared on The Factor to discuss the boycott. O'Reilly repeatedly referred to Daily Kos as "a hate site" and said they do "terrible things on a daily basis." Greene seemed to agree with this description, adding that Kos is "liberal elitism at its worst."

OK, that's her opinion. Fine. But it saddened to me to think about the portrait this paints of the Democratic party: fractured, bitter, disorganized, weak.

Now, Greene could have mentioned that there are hateful comments on O'Reilly's site or here on MyDD or elsewhere, but she didn't. Instead, she managed to reinforce negative stereotypes not just of Obama supporters, but of Clinton supporters, too.

All press is not good press. For the boycott supporters, this was seemingly positive exposure, but the real beneficiary of this attention wasn't Clinton, it was O'Reilly and the Republicans.

Wanna fight over site ratings now?

Okay, if you insist.

http://alexa.com

Some of his best writers are having significant issues with this entire matter, and were quite concerned about the situation in the weeks leading up to the walkout, too.

As I've seen these same top writers/FP'ers comment, Markos is his own worst enemy.

There's a lot of ego going on in the writing, in general.

And, I'm hearing from multiple sources that in addition to a modest dropoff in traffic, the diminished quality of the writing/diaries is much more noticeable than the loss of eyeballs.

Yep, what we're seeing is the Foxification of the liberal blogging community.

Truth be told, Kos, and even MyDD to a lesser extent, have as much audience as a typical tv station in a mid-size U.S. market nowadays.

The site traffic stats are critical to their livelihood, Markos moreso than Jerome.

Markos has become somewhat of a brand; but, as I learned in advertising and p.r. many, many years ago, nothing will run a mediocre or poor product into the ground more rapidly than great p.r. and marketing.

At the very least, the place lost a signficant portion of it's coolness. In fact, in today's world, and as I've heard folks like Markos comment about matters that may have occurred as little as a year or two ago (take a look at Markos' Wiki bio for context, where there's a reference to 2005, as if it was generations ago, LOL!), there's very little respect for history, and not much more appreciation for Party allegiance, either.

I can only imagine what Markos will do, and where he will lead his cult--resplendent with their kerosene torches marching through brick-paved streets like some old Frankenstien flick--if Obama doesn't get the nomination.

He's threatened to do what he can to feed the flames of party unrest if that happens; and, given his penchant for doing that over the past 12 weeks on his own blog, I think that would definitely be the case, too.

Then again, what can you expect from someone with a history of party disaffiliation? However, admittedly, this loyal, lifelong Dem has a problem with that. Just like Kos has a problem with people with my views--especially when we're not afraid of speaking up in defense of them, too! One minor difference, however: I don't have a responsibility to my audience with regard to adhering to a mission statement on a blog that hosts many millions of views per month. Markos does. And, he's failed miserably in living up to those responsibilities, especially in light of the reality that he hasn't changed his mission statment in the past three months, either.

It's now to the point where his marquis quote: "...a reality-based blog for Democrats;" should be replaced with: "...it's my reality for some Democrats."

So, at the end of the day, IMHO, the guy's guilty of grossly and fraudulently (mis)representing the purpose of Daily Kos' very existence.

That's not what I signed up for there a little less than two years ago. And, that is why I left.

The point was to protect oneself and the principle of full discussion

I wonder when this is all over, if there will be people wandering the streets aimlessly muttering to themselves..."we are the ones...we are the ones."