A little refresher seems in order .
Hide rating a tip jar is not intended to be used against anyone but the most obvious and egregious of trolls. Meteor Blades
Hide rating what you feel is poor humor isn't meeting the standards .
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Let me extrapolate from his guidelines. When you HR someone’s tip jar, what you are saying is that the diary is so disruptive, so inflammatory, so false, so damaging to our community that it isn’t even worth debating but should be deleted from any discussion. Unfortunately, inevitably, we will always be a target for such diaries. They deserve to be HRed. And for exactly that reason, tip jars that receive large numbers of HRs will come under special scrutiny from site administrators. On the other hand, a hide rating should never be used (in a tip jar or a comment) to express disagreement with a poster’s opinion.
A poorly written, ill-argued, tendentious diary may be the product of a troll, or it may simply be an upstanding member of the community having a bad day. When the latter seems to be the case, the best way to deal with the matter is probably a barbed comment or two.
Hide rating a tip jar is not intended to be used against anyone but the most obvious and egregious of trolls. To reiterate, if it's simply a matter of not liking the point of view in a diary, don’t tip or recommend the diarist. Make a comment. Debate. Challenge. Argue. Persuade. If your definition of obvious and egregious is consistently not the definition used by the rest of the community or by site administrators, expect your rating ability to be suspended.
Is that the reason for auto tip jars?
To express your disagreement with a diary by HR'ing it?
Here I thought you disagree with the diary in the comments section, and only HR a tip jar if it's a troll diary.
by SJerseyIndy
* You thought correctly.
by Meteor Blades