Letter To Kossacks
Dear Fellow Kossacks;
I blame the autoban machine for all of this! Because from what I've read it automatically bans anyone with a certain amount of hide ratings.
It also must not be calculating mojo correctly because (there's an example in my Brooklyn NY Jesus Gonzolez diary). I only had one comment, (I left) but this person has a total of five diaries with 79 recs and a mojo of four and a dot and they joined 2011. This is my 107th diary and I just hit 700 recs last week and I joined in 2008.
I have a mojo of four and a dot. I think my mojo's correct, but I think the other person's mojo is wrong.
So there has to be something wrong with the machine for starters. I think this is what happened! I know it had to be a mix-up in mojo!
I hope that, Kos will reinstate all those real Kossacks who were banned! He has a really good blog, that he did build and it is a lot of responsibility! I think that any banned (real), Kossack who can get some other Kossacks to say that they shouldn't be banned; should be reinstated! I don't know them all, but like; for instance, This Is My Time, Isn't TIMT the diarist who was always getting bashed for writing Pro Obama diaries? I kind of remember being there at times when this happened!
About a dozen of the bannings were actual trolls or zombies (yippie), and I really thank Kos for getting rid of them. I just think that some real Kossacks might have accidentally gotten caught in the purge.
The autoban machine is not good. It can be manipulated too easily! Especially by trolls!
Sometimes that autoban system screws up big time! The hide rating system definitely needs improving! It can be manipulated so easily and the rules tell everyone how to manipulate it.
There has been a lot of discord here lately.But the trolls have been rampant; out in full force for over a year! They tried to divide Kossacks, but the trolls failed! Unfortunately the trolls did manage to achieve their agenda somewhat by goading a few Kossacks into losing their tempers and getting banned. A psychological process in action! Divide, Conquer!
I've been a Kossack since 08. I wrote a lot of diaries but really didn't know many people.
Then last Dec I decided to start reading other Kossacks diaries. I am really getting to know many Kossacks. This is how I know they are not trolls. Rowdy, but not trolls. There is a big difference.
I guess this is why lots of people went on boycott. They are all my groups so I stood in Solidarity with them. This issue did seem right and it was only for one week.
A lot of good people did have to stay and keep things going. And there was no pressure.
It was just a statement some groups were making! It's Good For Democracy, For People To Speak Their Minds!
I know dKos used to be so proper. Then for a while, before Kos got rid of the trolls it was like a street brawl!
I got stalked by trolls once. Someone called me a spammer, a couple of times, throughout a few different threads ( I thought, this isn't good). Then late one night I wandered into a diary and two jumped me and said that
1. They didn't like me, 2. They were not my friends, 3. I should go away and 4. again to stop spamming the diary, Then they hide rated my comment. (All I'd done was leave the link to "Just The Links Man Social Services For Civilians and Veterans"). Sounded like a set up to me, so I told them they better stop lying about me or I would complain to Kos.
Then they complained about me. But Meteor Blades was still here and he didn't take their side.
He fixed them. He told me that it was ok, just don't leave things in unrelated diaries.
Yeah, I'm spamming for charity! So it won't help them (trolls), because I never break the rules. Rules are easy.
I used to argue with trolls, but I found out that it was totally wasting my precious time.
Then I figured out how this was the trolls plot; to waste my precious time when I could be reading other Kossacks diaries, or newspapers, books etc. and generally expanding my mind.
Besides the psychological stress imposed upon myself, having to even correspond with crazy trolls!
I discovered that not engaging with trolls and telling everyone what the trolls agenda really is, was much more rewarding!
Some Kossacks have been really pushed to their limit by the trolls coming into their diaries and disrupting the entire thread. Not everyone is as sneaky as I am. They fight back! I'm from NJ. One doesn't openly confront a bully where I come from. It's not healthy, you might say.
Maybe Kos is just trying to teach people how to interact without falling into traps that get them all distracted from the Democratic agenda of outsmarting the republicans at every turn. And not to feed the trolls! (Even if it is true; as some diarist's have commented, that some trolls are fun)! But not all of them!
Kos said that we should be the moderators, so maybe in order to self moderate he's teaching us how to communicate with trolls.
For example; don't argue with trolls, (it takes up too much time, attention and energy) and then they retaliate in some nasty way! It is so much more effective to just ignore trolls! Goodbye trolls!
We Kossacks get to know each other and know who's an established Kossack.
trolls on the other hand are easy to spot. We know that trolls only have one purpose, and that their main reason for being here is to disrupt and destroy the Democratic Agenda.
the trolls utmost goal is to obfuscate! To keep people busy fighting them and even each other. Instead of concentrating on issues, thinking rationally, and finding workable solutions for moving this country forward! Arguing with trolls is not only useless (they don't care), but serves their purpose. It's way better to just ignore them! trolls hate that the worst.
So maybe this is what Kos is up to, (he's) sending a message. And being a busy Man in a hurry he may have just gone by the Kos machine tallies on hides.
Look at New York! Apparently some Democrats still haven't learned how to Message; i.e. How Important It Is For Every One Of Us To Stick Together And Get Out And Vote! The republican won in a heavily Democratic District! Duh!
Weiner's House seat goes to GOP
Like Pres Obama said "In 14 Months It Will Be Nov 2012". The race will be heating up; with every dirty political trick the republicans can think of. This is the nature of politics! It's never been known to be a clean game. A hundred years ago they hit people over the head to keep them from going to the polls and voting. Nowadays it's done a little differently. With brainwashing, trickery and lots of money!
So the trolls could be out in force and we need to know how to deal with them! I think that Democrats Should Really Be Concentrating More On Getting The Message About Getting Out The Vote And That We Have Other More Important Issues To Handle, than engaging in the long; time consuming effort it takes, arguing with trolls. (from now on; I myself am, just gonna tell a troll what I think and then ignore them). No more answering trollish responses.
So this said; I want to share a funny story about malfunctioning machines. My Mother and flooding the place with soap bubbles.
One day when I was very little; my Mother's 1947 model washing machine overflowed all over the kitchen floor. Bubbles everywhere.
The hysterical part is; at the same time she was playing a Lawrence Welk record in the other room
about his champagne bubble machine malfunctioning and Lawrence is yelling "turn off the bubble machine"!
I always think of this and can still picture the sea of bubbly suds almost as high as I was!
Turn Off The Bubble Machine!
This Is Loud You might want to turn your speakers way down now.
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