So here's what happened...
Last October, I found Daily Kos, signed up, started commenting, and eventually began writing diaries. Some of these diaries did not all together suck; a dozen or so actually graced the rec list (thanks, by the way). My mojo grew as I logged witty and insightful comments in the diaries of others. A few weeks ago, my membership in the Kos community and my very existence were each validated when I was magically granted the previously elusive TU status.
Today it's gone. Poof. Vanished. Like it was never there.
All morning, I've been in a depressed funk, trying desperately to figure out how I might have been suddenly excommunicated from my favorite online neighborhood. I checked my recent comment ratings -- nothing there to indicate that I would be "untrustworthy." I read through my recent diaries; not my best work, granted, but they might have been better received if I didn't have this terrible habit of posting in the middle of the day, which inexplicably, I'm doing again now. I haven't abused my troll rating privilege; indeed, I can remember using it only once or twice.
There's a secret here that nobody's telling me -- a fine, invisible, subjective line between "trusted" and "untrusted" that seems to be known only to Greek gods and the very upper echelon of the DK community.
If you know the secret, help out a newly untrusted diarist. Tip me, rec me, commune with me. Tell me the secret to regaining my TU status and keeping it henceforth.
I'm not above sleeping with someone.