Daily Kos

I find Kos pales in comparison for aggregating political news article published elsewhere along with excerpts to RawStory. The later recently added original articles. The pluses are that Kos allows anybody to post their own stories, called diaries, and that there's often thought provoking discussing in the comments. The minus is that community posted stories rarely include original material and opinion, in fact they don't even have an opinion section like major newspapers. For my take on why my story got me banned, with the story removed from the site, without any reason sent to me, can be found if you Google my name, Hal Brown, and a keyword like Daily Kos or Trump. That will get you to my blog.

Full of poorly written, topics which do not fairly or reasonably report on the topics at hand many trash articles which are nothing more than smear pieces, and they show lack of real journalism skills. Plus they spam people terribly. I didn't sign up for thier garbage but keep getting it sent to me over and over.

I wrote several articles for this website that were actual journalism, not the clickbait 50-word cut and paste articles you mostly see there. My articles got a lot of views and likes but a small group of bizarre people flagged them into oblivion and then they were all removed. I tried to keep visiting the site but the viruses and pop-up ads embedded in it made me stop. Somebody could get rich creating a community blog site with real journalistic standards and the vibe of the Meidas Touch youtube network. But Daily Kos is a sad joke.

Extreme censorship and intolerance towards any opposing or independent views. Anti-democratic values. Too much group think behavior and bullying tactics promoting a reckless "cancel culture". They do not offer any refunds on subscription membership dues and their paid staff is practically nonresponsive and unavailable.

While I support much of their progressive actions, they use underhanded spamming tactics. By signing one petition, they automatically add your email to several other lists without your consent because they don't give you a choice not to subscribe. Sneaky at best, possibly illegal. Their unsubscribe method is also underhanded: no way to unsubscribe from all their lists at once, requiring multiple actions to unsubscribe one at a time. Totally deceitful.

I was banned from Daily Kos for complaining re a 3 day restriction for pointing out potential trolls. Won't ever go there again, they are complicit.

I receive DailyKos newsletter and I often sign petitions of theirs which is fine. Their online site where users comment in response to articles however is outrageously unfair and severely censors any opinion different from theirs even if your comment is free from foul language, slurs, threats, or anything remotely offensive. The administrators also refused to delete account as requested. I've unsubscribed to their newsletter and refuse to have anything to do with them. They are trash.

They censor comments and articles. They purge en masse people who are truly willing to fight for America and democracy. They are hostile to rational people, atheists and others who don't believe in archaic sky gods. Many of their commenters are pathetic wimps and losers who act like kids in a high school clique. Lots of sock puppets. I also suspect they report people who are "too radical." F off, Daily Kos.

They have a multi-tier comment moderation. Users who pay or have more "mojo" have more rights in the comment section. So if more people falsely accuse you of a violation of the "Rules of the Road" you comments get blocked. There is no attempt to contact you about the comments just the having enough people falsely accusing you of a violation and your are block.

The Daily Kos, in my estimation, is trying to take over some of the same causes that other advocacy organizations (MoveOn.org, Avaaz, National Resources Defense Council, & Sierra Club and others) have done so well over many years. My fear is that the Daily Kos will crowd out the outstanding track records of the established organizations listed above who have proved themselves to be highly credible and successful. Please stay away from Daily Kos and stick with the advocacy groups we know we can trust.

Daily Kos will PERMANENTLY BAN anyone expressing an opinion that contradicts or attacks the philosophy of the Leftists. Afraid to face opposing opinions they will quickly prevent anyone who argues in support of conservative opinions from ever posting again. They are nothing more than a leftist safe space.

Have been reading daily kos for awhile and began noticing the posters are mostly the same and they speak to each other with the familiarity of a club. Which is fine, until you ask some questions they don't want to hear. Have you ever read the rules of the road over there? What hogwash. So if an established poster tells you "you can die mad"... that's fine... but push the issue, try to expand your question and you are dismissed like you're nothing to them. They appear to break down into the bullies and the bowers... thanks but no thanks
I'm a big girl who has seen bullies before and will again... just always startling when it happens where you thought they were better than that.

I read blogs from both the Red and Blue sides to get a balance.

Some posts on each are utter garbage - but reading both gives insight.

Kos is no better or worse - but I have found their information - particularly the insights and narrative into the Trump presidency - not only useful but endlessly entertaining.

I wrote a comment about an article with a differing opinion than those that had been previously posted, was accused and threatened as a "troll", and was blocked.

Many of the comments following this article promoted an agenda of hate and violence towards those who didn't agree.

Previously, I had found the articles posted to be well put viewpoints, but If you don't promote their agenda, you are not allowed to participate. To me this perpetuates the "us vs them" mentality that they rail against. It certainly is NOT an unbiased forum, and promotes hate speech.

Beware! The content doesn't match the moderation which is completely nonsensical, arbitrary and may be related to the site owner's dislike of Sanders. Users who support Sanders are flagged and banned. They are harming the Democratic party and progressives should not waste their time. Also don't create an account once they have your email they refuse to let users delete their accounts. Stay away, they are so hateful they will turn blue into red.

What kind of a publication allows LIBELOUS and DEFAMATORY articles? I guess it's called the DAILY KOS which doesn't seem to be a real newspaper because it publishes articles that are complete lies and written by hacks that don't seem to be journalists. They put up information by people who post on Twitter (yeah, Twitter...) to try to docs people (TRY being the key word). They don't care whether the information is correct or not. They published an article with a bunch of content that looks like a person was stalked for years, then associated a picture of somebody in a mask using an anonymous screen name to a person's real name they found on public records, with absolutely NO PROOF or verification that the name is correct. Then they obtained photos illegally and used them without permission to try to ruin somebody's life. They are in the business of docs'ing, the problem is that they don't care whether the docs'ing information is correct or not. WHAT A DISGRACE THESE PEOPLE ARE.

I made the mistake of signing a petition co-sponsored by KOS and have been spammed with multiple daily emails since. I did NOT sign up to their lists, and they were just one of the groups sponsoring the petition. Unsubscribing is a pain, and frankly I consider this to be SPAM and it has made me despise everything about them.