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Can't get no TU status. And I try try try try try try try.
Can't get no girly action.
Baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby better come back later next week, cause you see I'm on a losing streak, I can't get no
Mojo.
Actually, I've been able to eek out some mojo in my couple of months here. But it bothers me that I can't get TU status. Is there something in between TU and troll? Is there really? I don't feel like a troll. GBCW? Nope. It's great here. Maybe the 'pugs are right about the elitist left though. Just sayin'.
I've written 21 diaries. Wow. I was going to be lazy and estimate the number of diaries I've written. I was going to say 10 or 12. But then I decided to go and do my research (open another browser tab, go to my account page and count them). 21.
I took about 1/4 of those seriously, probably half are Hillary hit-diaries, and the others... well those are just the others. None of my hit diaries were particularly caustic, although one of my titles Hillary is an Infidel smoked up a few keyboards. My very first diary was a serious effort, but I attached a really stupid poll to it and that turned a lot of people off.
Later, I took parts of that first diary and put it together with some info I read in another one, and that later incarnation of it made the Rescued list. It was a proud day.
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I was excited when it happened and I took a screen shot and saved it. Since then I've taken screenshots of all of my "big moments" where I got some attention. The next big moment was my 2nd Rescued diary on the same topic - and this second one had a big moment within a big moment, something I'd been watching closely for: it was Rec'd by one of them, a fp writer.
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Bottom right corner... thanks mcjoan!
I wonder if they are like super delegates - do their Recs count for more in the secret formula?
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So I've had a little bit of mojo and it feels great. I've said the wrong thing on occasion and got my ass pounded too... wow. That didn't... it wasn't supposed to sound like that. To backspace and rephrase or to run with (including parenthetical note-to-self)... fuck it. Let 'er rip.
I suppose I can be glad that "feels great" came out before "ass pounded".
Anyway, I try to just keep writing and doing the brown guy's good work. It's not just diaries and rescues and recs, it's comments too. Here's one I got a 10+ for, I shit you not (there I go again):
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After I did it I saw that somebody else had already done it, and he got +28. The diary was DemocraticLuntz' famous blank diary. It's a trip what you have to go though to even search for it since there is no title or text to search. It's also a reminder that it's okay for this to be fun some of the time.
I haven't been around here long. I still don't know what is with the kittens or who/what Pie is, but after that day with that diary (and I happened to catch it before it made the Rec list... tried to click on the blank space, said "what the - ?"), I feel like i witnessed something people will be talking about for years and years and Kossacks #250000 - 300000 won't know what the hell we - the savvy pre-150000 in-crowd - are talking about.
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Mojo is literary crack.
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It's not just diary Recs or Rescued diaries, but comment ratings. I've done okay on those.. I've been over 30 a few times. Only been troll-rated once to my knowledge, and I think it was a true and righteous comment relevant to the topic of the story I was commenting on.
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FIRST OFF: Please let me explain that this happened over a month ago and I am not trying to hash up some Hillary argument. I don't plan on writing anymore about that and it's not at all what this diary is about.
It wasn't an opening comment, but a response. A bit harsh, I'll admit, but it was relevant to the discussion and it had to be said. It was the thing everyone else on that thread at that moment was skipping around - it was the expletive in the room. Overall I got a +4/-7 rating and it generated 22 comments.
The breakdown of the 22 comments was as follows:
9 - blasted me.
6 - agreed with what I said but not with the way I said it.
4 - agreed with what I said and agreed that it needed to be said in that way.
3 - my comments
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22 - total
Here are some supporting comments from other Kossacks:
Which word did it?
Dirty? (The Clintons are not known for their "clean" politics.
Liar? Debatable in some areas but clearly a fair accusation in others.
The F word? Would they have escaped the awful "Hide" button if the F word was not used or it was changed to fricking?
As a Liberal, I care more about advancing liberal principles than advancing politicians with D next to their names. I agree with Dopeman because in my observation of this campaign, Hillary has been dishonest and sleazy, and I really do not want her to be our nominee.
There have been far worse comments in the many candidate diaries this cycle, and more off-topic. I think this particular poster is simply expressing his impressions of Hillary's campaign with overly forceful rhetoric.
I feel vindicated. As I said in response to some of those who blasted me, my comments are usually not this crude and vulgar. For that matter I usually don't have crude and vulgar thoughts (the dating site link in the intro is a joke!), but if I do have that kind of reaction and it's because of the actions of one of my party's candidates I won't stop myself from saying it.
Does he really want me to?
I hope not. Who is he by the way? Does anybody know? I understand it's probably meant to represent kos, but who is it really? Is it based on some historical figure or just a cool painting of "guy with flag"? I guess that would be question 6 or 7 - I've lost count. Whoever he is, he appears to be marching forth in the name of truth, carrying his flag with poise and determination.
Is he God? King Mojo? The Pie Piper? As we clamor for the mojo he leaves in his fleeting orange wake, do we know he'd appreciate that there are times when it has to be said that somebody is a dirty fucking liar? I hope so.
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Does this a troll make?
Should I be proud of my work
here or hide in a hole?
If I'm not a TU does
that mean I'm a troll?
With concern and sockpuppetry
and pooties and Pie
leaving newbies feeling
outcast and wondering why
troll ratings and recipes
and menacing kittens
fill hit-diaries 'bout Billary
and NObama and Mittens.
For lack of attention they're
frustrated and daunted
'til they say the wrong thing
and get more than they wanted.
And all the while we
who can't get TU status
have pie and smug comments
and kittens flung at us
as I do all I can to
give more than I take
and ask Kossacks in earnest:
Does this a troll make?
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Please consider this an open thread. Post your best/worst Pooties and Pie (whatever/whomever pie is). I won't bother asking somebody to explain Pie - I've tried that before and it just brings more kittens. Maybe I'll never know. Maybe I won't understand why nobody will tell me until I get to make fun of someone for not knowing about the famous blank diary. I can take it.
Hello Cruel World. Danger: Click this link at your own peril. You may end up trapped in my troll hell forever.