Please help me. I apparently just attained "trusted user" status after one year's time, and I am looking for something to troll rate. I must admit that until a few minutes ago when I read the troll rating information on dKosopedia, I knew little about the practice. The only thing I knew was that I could give comments a "thumbs up" and could not give them a "thumbs down". But I knew that other people could give a negative rating because I sometimes saw a number on the right side of the slash. Now I know there are comments that are hidden; I have been watching Animal House on network TV and have missed the "real" pillow fight scene.
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I feel like a newly ordained congressional committee chair, much like Henry Waxman or John Conyers, with powers unimaginable before today. What should I do first???
Should I search for a comment that I don't agree with and troll rate it?
No... that would be against the rules.
Conversely, there is one particular reason troll ratings should never be used: to express disagreement with a poster's opinion.
Damn...
I was once troll rated for... gulp... saying I like Lincoln Chafee. Perhaps I could hunt down the people who troll rated me and give them some payback.
Shit, there's a rule against that too.
Retaliatory troll-ratings -- troll rating someone simply because they troll rated you -- is forbidden. Period. Do it with frequency and you stand the chance of getting your rating ability taken away.
Damn...
Why be a privelaged user is you can't have any fun. Perhaps someone who has been a trusted user for a while can give me some advice. Perhaps someone can post a reponse to this thread, and I can troll rate the one that is most fitting... just to cure my itchy trigger finger. Other members can recommend the bad comment to offset the troll rating.
Please help me!
Update: I have been laughing my ass off reading some of the comments in this thread. At this point, I don't feel like troll rating anymore. But if I had to pick a winner it would be PhillyGal:
I miss Tom Delay; he was sooooooooo hot!
Update #2: I just saw some of the hidden comments. I might have to perform my first troll rating there. I can't believe what some people write.
Final Update: I decided to give my first troll rating to a hidden comment by sternsieger.
In failing to effectively deal with Iran back in early 80s, Carter effectively ushered in Islamic terrorism as a force in the world. Had he not been such a sniveling, incompetent prick, the Islamic world might be a very different place today.
So, of course this a$$hole is going to try to whitewash his own failure and blame Israel!
What an assclown! He deserves my first troll rating and I enjoyed giving it to him. I think I'm good for now... no more searching for obnoxious comments.
Thanks for all the hilarious comments. I truly enjoyed this.