I'm uncertain of some of the terms used on this website. As "user" number 77,980, I came to this community later than most, sooner than some. USER is a very apt name, since I have become practically an addict with regards to Daily KOS. To date, I've written 77 diaries, and made masses of comments. Why do I do it? For MOJO? I don't even know what Mojo is!
Do you?
I don't know how it is acquired, what to use it for, what it looks like, whether it's tradeable, dateable, edible or even contemplatable. If it's any of the first three 'whethers', it might actually be worth the effort. If it's not the later, then I ought to slam dunk this into what I used to call the 'circular file'... now the virtual basket.
Click delete and quit ruminating on four letter words beginning with M and ending in O.
Last week RenaRF wrote her well organized, beautiful stated, and RECOMMENDED versionof the guide to DailyKos. Her resources section linked to TheBlaz's Snarkfeasty FAQCT diary that inquires about the nature of mojo with this multiple choice question:
What is "mojo"?
a. Half-lion, half-tiger, bred for its skills in magic
b. The proper way to measure who has the biggest e-penis or the most symmetrical e-ovaries
c. A complex and spooky algorithmically-derived "thing" that determines who can troll rate and view hidden comments
d. German for "a whale's vagina"
e. A small jazz-fusion band currently playing in an abandoned warehouse
I picked C for an answer... but that's still not an answer!
What on earth or in cyber land is an
"algorithmically-derived thing?"
And what is the power and value behind being able to read hidden comments and rate other users as Trolls? I have used the troll rating, I think, three times in all. The hidden comments were tantalizing only as long as they were hidden. Now they carry all the attraction of a bar room brawl.
I googled 'algorithmical images'. It wasn't very helpful. I found these:
This cousin of Woody Woodpecker
and a dead (eeuw) algorithmically-derived thing
So I googled "mojo". Then I'm got somewhere! But not where I expected, particularily in a self described fact based community:
On wiki it says:
Mojo (pronounced [ˌməʊdʒəʊ]) is a term commonly encountered in the African-American folk belief called hoodoo. A mojo is a small bag, a type of magic charm, often of red flannel cloth and tied with a drawstring, containing botanical, zoological, and/or mineral curios, petition papers, and the like. It is typically worn under clothing.
How absolutely CHARMING!
Hey now! I got MOJO! Almost every year on my birthday, I make a little bag for holding odds and ends of stuff. Little stones, a raglin tooth, the root of my own wisdom tooth, feathers and stuff. The bag I have now came to me as gift, for my last birthday, from our own beloved mattes, who didn't know at the time I make my own MOJO bag every year. Truth be told, mattes was my inverse 'sponsor' for Daily KOS. 'Inverse' sponsor because mattes brought me to this addiction, rather then taking me to a community like AA that assists in deaddictifying. (Bush isn't the only person who can Frankenstein words together.) Mattes pestered me so many times to go 'check out DAILY KOS', it almost to felt like harrassment. That gift bag mattes gave me is soft cow hide with fringe on the bottom.. but bringing me to Daily kos was a gift bag of ideas, energy and community, I crave like a pregnant woman wanting pickles and ice cream. It even has some of it's own fringe elements...
Since I got MOJO, seems like I something I write, might someday get enough plusses to earn a recommended spot (though one doesn't really have much to do with the other, as far as I can ascertain). It just don't work that way. I must AL Gore
Rhythmically turn my medicine bag MOJO into cyber magic.
That will be my subject, the next time I host "Saturday Morning Political Cartoon".