It is most certainly stalking behavior, and it has been uncorrected. With apologies to wendydavis for bringing this up again, here is the comment I was referring to in my response to OB. Wendy bared her soul about her son enlisting in the National Guard in an earlier diary, no doubt knowing that this might be [...]

In the event you are talking to me, OB: it’s not that I am “pissed off at the moment.” I am pissed off 24/7, but not at the bullies or at FDL or at any of the anonymous people on the internet. We all have limited time and energy and we all have to decide [...]

Excellent, I haven’t listened to Hornsby in a while. And for you, another song with a similar sentiment: No Way As the Way.

I am quite honestly left wondering what TPTB at FDL want the site to be about these days. The wonderful thing about the site has been the excellent front page reporting of the news, complimented by a great diversity not just of opinions, but of topics, on myFDL. Given the lack of any response whatsoever, [...]

That is really the point. Such hateful comments, IMHO, demand a response, whether you’re defending yourself or another diarist you admire. But that response is more likely to get you banned than to shut down the trolls. The negative energy it requires, and the fact that it creates a distraction from the original topic, makes [...]

(((((Peasant Party)))))

Thanks for taking a stand.

OK, this is my last last word on this subject. :) Under most circumstances, choosing not to feed the trolls is the preferred solution. But in this case, at least one of the trolls is listed as a contributor to FDL. And the other has been allowed free rein to post incredibly negative comments and personal [...]

Teddy Partridge is listed on your Staff page as a contributor and he is frequently featured on your front page. Does his behavior reflect badly on FDL? Does it embarrass any of you? Do you enjoy your job as moderator when Teddy and Kelly are tag-teaming people and attempting to drive long-time diarists from the [...]

The mean girls have won . Clearly this is their blog. My leaving has been a long time coming; I have better things to do with my time. Every single time the mean girls gang up on wendy or someone else, I am tempted to try to counter it and then I think, what, are we still [...]

As part of wendydavis’ “misguided fanbase,” I will be taking my writing and comments elsewhere. I can’t contribute to this travesty of a website any longer. While I appreciate that a few people have attempted to mitigate the meanness, I see that none of these quite personal comments have been moderated and that a double [...]

Mr. hfc and I were just talking about disaster capitalism and impending collapse earlier today. My little “hedge” is to not pay bills until thirty seconds before someone comes to the door to collect, and to keep some cash in the mattress. It wouldn’t shock me a bit if Mr. Market tried to steal from [...]

I didn’t know about the babies. Well, I did, but I have been hiding my eyes for a while and refusing to look at the gory details. The weight of our crimes against humanity is suffocating. If I believed in god, I’d expect his wrath to come down on us pretty hard. Americans don’t seem [...]

More OT, but if we bump wendy’s diary back to the rec list, it’s all good, right? I went to an event the other night with several activists from Quincy, one of whom is a high school coach there now. Long story/whole ‘nother diary. The Feather River canyon is so beautiful; we take that route [...]

Still hot as hell in the summer. It’s hard to answer the global warming question (not that I have been here long enough to really know) without talking about chemtrails/geoengineering, because I sincerely believe it has a profound impact on the weather here and everywhere. Unfortunately, chemtrails are still classified as the imaginations of crazy [...]

OMG, a kindred spirit. I’ve been planning to write a diary about chemtrails forever and one of these days when I have a minute, I will do it. The skies over Chico, CA (northern Sacramento Valley, for anyone not familiar) have been so ridiculous the past few days that I went out and took pictures. [...]

Thank you, Jennie. This is outrageous and infuriating and shameful.

I clicked the Facebook “like” button (which I actually have never done before here; when I put FDL stuff on Facebook, I link to it in the status updates). Anyway, it did show up in my “likes” but the counter above didn’t change even when I refreshed the page. So I dunno what that means. [...]

Isaiah, thank you for this diary and especially for posting part of Tomas Young’s letter. I just came across that on Facebook earlier today. I also watched the first half of The World According to Dick Cheney ; it’s two hours but I could only stomach one hour’s worth. It was chilling to see just how long [...]

*&%!!!!!*^#@!!!!////*% Hell no, those ain’t emoticons. Actually, maybe they are. And you can guess the emotion. I’m on my way out the door but I did read this and look forward to watching the videos. Actually, look forward is probably not quite the phrase I am searching for, but as a citizen of the planet I [...]