You will be happy to know the I have recovered my spelling ability this fine morning, unfortunately I have lost none of my comtempt the privileged few and the drama queens.
You people have a nice litte echo chamber going on here. Some crybaby went to managment because they couldn't stand being held responsible of their personal attacks on David Sirota.
Well that's too bad, ya'll are gonna have to get over it. Because whether you like it or not their are over 80,000 users on this site and it's not just the ones with a low id numbers that have a say (although some obviously have the power to take matters into their own hands).
You got people like Plutonium Page who enter every diary with nothing but contempt, looking for any and every reason to personally insult the motives of the diarist. Yet at least some here want to fawn all over her no matter classless or lacking in a modicum of civility. What's the deal with that? She doesn't even live in the states any more. Don't they have blogs in the country she ran off to in order to abandon her own country at a time when we needed so called "progressives" like her to help us with the battle? She's a coward that left the states when we needed her most. Yeah that's the kind of person I want on my side. She's nowhere to be found to make a contribution but she can almost always be found pouring derision on any diarist she doesn't agree with. Of course she get showered with fours any time she comments, regardless of whether she actually said something that contributed to the diary.
You also have drama queens like MSOC who make it painfully clear that they are here to promote themselves, the progressive movement be damned. For MSOC it's all about getting her middle aged face on tv and trying to pretend she is still the beauty queen that presumably she once was. Her comments in her own diary bear that out, especially one in particular that says, to paraphrase, "sorry but this is all about me."
Then you got guys like peeder who actually drove Arken from this site, not one of you cowards have the guts to call him on it, and he is still showered with fours whenever he makes a trollish comment.
If Buffalo girl didn't want to get troll rated she should not have impugned the integrity of the diarist before she knew what she was talking about, she should have challenged his ideas. Plutonium page, same deal. You don't want to be troll rated stop bursting in diaries from you overseas hideout and pouring you derision on the diarist or the subject he chooses to write about. Dmich got a troll rating to for hijacking the diary with self promotion, but I withdrew that.
Unfortunately at least half of those people could fart and it would shoot to the top of the recommended list. Name recognition and all. Meanwhile true progressive are leaving this site in droves all the time because of this type of bullshit.
It quite funny because I was stripped of my trusted user status right after I thanked Hunter for the diary he posted on troll ratings and how to use them.
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As a relative newbie I try to follow the rules as best as possible. If I troll rate someone it is because I sincerely believe that they are engaging in trollish behavior. It's NEVER personal.
Posts that include direct attacks on the credibility, sincerity, and/or personally insult the diarist will always result in a troll rating from me, unless said diarist has a history of disruption.
If I am wrong about how I am applying the troll rating system anyone can feel free to enlighten me, it would be greatly appreciated as a matter of fact.
I do not spend much time posting on here because it is obvious to me that I am way out of my league and would be much better served by keeping my mouth shut and learning. Ultimately, I would like to be an asset, and of service to the progressive movement. I can't do that until I educate myself properly (perhaps with a little help from my friends).
Please continue to enlighten us and Hunter your last two diaries have been helpful to me (they are now on my favorites lists and I will review them regularly). Thank you for taking the time to compose something which you probably weren't too excited about rehashing.
On a final note, I am truly sorry if this place is beginning to seem like the low rent district to some, but that is what happens when you allow high school drops outs such as myself in here. (Which is why I get such a chuckle of of the right wing media calling Dkos the liberal elite. There are many more regular people here than they can ever imagine).
ps please remember we here are not all academic types with multiple degrees and years upon years of grass roots organizing under our belts, many of us are just regular, ordinary people who wouldn't even be in here if you hadn't left the door wide open. I voted for the first time in my life in 2004 and I am forty three. Pathetic, I know.
Props to Markos for giving us little guys a soapbox to stand on
Peace, out
"If you don't want to fight for the future and you can't figure out how to beat these people then find something else to do." BILL CLINTON, Sat Oct 29, 2005
by DriftawayNH on Mon May 29, 2006 at 02:12:06 AM EDT
Notice how I am freely admitting in that thread that I an a relative newbie, asking for assistance, inviting anyone to enlighten me if I am applying the ratings wrong, and thanking the diarist for his attempts to enlighten those of us who haven't been here since dinosuars walked the earth? Hell I can't believe I actually had the humility (or the stupiditiy) to admit tht I didn't finish 9th grade because a few took advantage of that also to get in a few shots.
Both Hunters diaries on that subject are now on my favorites list and I have every intention of reviewing them from time to time. I have learned that a troll around here is not so much a republican asking inane question to disrupt a thread, but a well meaning progressive who had the humility to admit that he is a newbie, political neophyte and could use a little guidance.
This is how you treat members of your so called progressive community, I would like to know how this crap that happened last night is any different than the muzzle that the free republic tries to fit you with.
Apparently someone, one of our more important members, who has a little juice with the big guy decided to go whining to him, I wonder if he even bothered to check out why the rude, accusatory tone of David Sirotas' diary drew troll ratings from me. No matter what you people say, the rules are, according to people who are supposed to know, that personal attacks, such as accusing someone of writing a hit and run diary with no proof, while the man is out spending a couple hours with his family is worthy a troll rating. Proof remember that? Something I thought this blog was founded on. Plutonium Page, why come into a diary so you can yawn and tell the diarist how useless and overdone his diary is? Why not just move on to the next diary and realize that your opinion is worth no more than anyone elses. I have seen you post many times the comment "if you don't like the diary don't click on the link, there are plenty of other stories here."
You people have lost all sense of civility, you now wander around like pack animals trolling everyone who disagrees with your particular view of where the movement should be headed. Please note, I troll rate personal attacks, and it is written into the site rules. Sorry for so many troll ratings in one thread, but there happened to be so many trolls and a man has to do what a man has to do.
On a final I would like to commend the original users for their ability to assume eveyone understands blog culture as well as they do and I would also like to thank them for driving decent progressives away in order to maintain their pecking order and echo chamber.
Now everyone make some snarky comments and have a mojo fest. I stand by the troll ratings and I am so tired of the so-called celebrity bloggers here who hold themselves so high above everyone else here that I am sure they suffer from nose bleeds at that altitude. You people have no shame and there is very little difference between you people here and the people on the other side you despise.
Update: Apparently some of our slower users have assumed this is a GBCW diary, do a little fact checking and get back to me eh ROGNM? Show me where I said GBCW or kindly desist with your baseless allegations.
Update number two this diary just proves the whole point of the pack animal mentality. Mine may not be the voice of reason, but there aren't any other voices of reason jumping in there are there? This is just typical of this site, due to the anonymity that the internet provides most people would rather join with the pack like a bunch of high school kids in a clique, hey look, a chance to pile on someone. I may not be the brightest one here but the same things that have made you angry about the direction of our country has also made me angry also. That's right I am a high school dropout so feel free to insult my grammar skills or anything else that helps you get a chuckle, It's people like Ned Lamont, Jon Tester, and Francine Busby that pay for it in the long run so that you can play your high school game of amusing each other at my expense during your mojofest. The truth is my judgement might suck and I might be as far off base as I could possibly be, but I still hate George Bush and his neocon cabal. I am one of you whether you like it or not. Of course not all of us were born with a silver spoon in our mouths. I know before us everyday type people showed up here it was all you elite academics and that must bug the shit out of you to actually have to deal with us plebs. You people are doing a great job of surpressing your base:)
UPDATE #3: The hatred is this diary is amazing, I never realized I got on everyones nerves here so bad. I won't be voting democrat this year and neither will my family. If I am going to vote for hateful spiteful people I might as well vote for the ones holding all the power.
ps whoever the juvenile is that wants to engage in a tags changing battle to get an extra chuckle from you clique don't worry, I have all day to go back and forth with you. You think you might find better things to do. Take one of the commentors in this diarys' advice and concentrate on the things that matter instead of playing diary tag games.