August 2007: The Daily Kos can't survive without its nasty posts!

A post from August 2007:

To be fair, every blogger gets posts with nasty language. I get some comments but I don't publish them. At the same time, I don't get thousands of them like more popular blogs.

Once in a while, a good blog is going to publish something nasty. It's part of the business. However, Rick Moran is right about The Daily Kos:

"The problem for the proprietor, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, is that so much of his readership is immersed in this conspiracy culture that eliminating it would drive a significant portion of them away. He is well and truly trapped by his own success."

In simple terms, Kos makes enough money to hire a full time moderator to keep the "four letter words" and the "Cheney should be dead" stuff away.

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