I've never been one for "opposing diaries" but now I see the point in them. . .
It's been a DK tradition that Front Pager's don't edit out their mistakes, the insert the correct information and "strike a line thru" the bum info.
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Ye who have cast the stone should live with the consequences. There are screen prints out there. Blue Ardvarck is asking you to remove your HR's for the sake of the author / commenter. I am asking you to put it back to show that we are an open community that is willing to admit it's mistakes.
I seriously doubt anyone is going to get banned from this site for the negative comments and subsequent HR's they drew defending Weiner. In fact they should be able to wear them as badges of honor that they stood against the tide of Orange. It took a few days for a recently banned commenter on nuclear issues to get booted and he was ranting homophobic and racial slurs. Thankfully he is gone.
By putting those HR's back we show that we are better then those who try and hide the past and that we strive for transparency.
Nothing against you Blue Ardvark, good sir or lady, I believe you are sincere, intelligent and noble, but we should not revise history here anymore than we should let Texas fiddle with the contents of their schoolbooks. Right is right and wrong is wrong.
If you hammered somebody because they stood up for a false prophet, we have a right to know who you are. Feel bad that you HR'ed someone? Drop them a DM (Direct Mail @ Kos) or publicly apologize in the comments below.