I'm quite an avid hidden comments reader, as many are. Some days there's a good five minutes of entertainment. Watching the abusers and the abused, the righteous and the freeper. Seeing what's been bad to say today, what's allowed and what word or thought is now on the proscribed list, but that's as far as it goes ... usually
Perhaps there are sub-groups yet to be discovered but I think today I've identified the bulk of the species ...
The STFU's - Funny the first time graphics that clog up threads to collect mojo.
The Jokers - I thought of a new donut joke, now I need someone to TR
The Greens - Once a TR'd comment has attracted other TR's, their original TR can be recycled to use on someone else more worthy.
Donut Relief - Having used 5 TR's in a day they have their hands out to others to help assuage their outrage.
The Autobahner - Cruising to TR the same person on as many threads as possible so the auto-ban kicks in.
The Pile-ons - The meaningless use of TR's because 2 TR's is enough.
The Mojo Beggars - I agree with the TR, give me some mojo
The Virgin - The first TR is always the hardest, the recipient feels special.
The Tiaras - The royalty of the TR circuit, born to the position of righteous inerrant judgment.
The Entertainment Sport Hunters - Power TU's bored with the pace of politics and scandal.
The Descartian Clairvoyant - I suspect it's a troll, therefore it is.
The Punishers - I can't confirm that they aren't on 24 hour surveillance duty, live in the same room, but whether by IM or email they descend on their favorite infraction and shower each other with a mojo love fest.
The Teachers - Same as the punishers, but with the added loving strap line of "we're only doing it for you're own good"
The Foodies - The culinary response. Do not feed the trolls, the original and the best.
Some of the comments in skirmishes are amusing, they remind me of B-movie war dialog "Hey! I'm out of ammo!" isn't out of place, "We'll head them off at the pass" at his/her next comment, "We attack at midnight" when the donut supply route is reopened. The "You can run, but you can't hide" threat and "Emptied my Donut Clip"
One of the other aspects of TRing are the shrieks of "WTF did you TR that for?!!" half the time it's because some drive by n00b who made enough comments to reach TU by luck or pooties thinks that a joke isn't funny or they just don't like your nick, but others are just long standing personal gripes.
Anyhoo - From time to time I notice some of the more seasoned TR aficionados.
The Complete FAQers - A cross section of the other groupings - those who seem to have read the troll rules and leave a reason for TRing people. I started researching the "Donut" justifications. There are cross-overs but it's a separate culture. Too close to it's infancy to draw conclusions or even know if it'll survive or go the way of the flying spaghetti monster. It's harder to define.
In the old world order, there's a fair selection of TR's for bigotry, sexism, racism, ageism, a disturbing number of obscenity TR's, which makes little sense since an MSOC rant is more colorful than a bowl of M&M's ... There's a pile of ad-homs, lying is right out, no generalizations or stereotypes ... Quoting anything heard on the MSM as gospel will see you buried for being unsubstantiated, specious or an ignorant wingnut and the classic retaliatory disagreement rating abuses.
I make no judgement on the comments or who they were aimed at, or apologize from lifting the subject line out of context, but I did uncover a pattern of dKos thought to guide the n00b TU by example.
The close but no cigar justifications:
I'm not troll-rating this for your opinion.... - It's because you disagree?
Troll-rated for copyright infringement - Not recommending the edit button first?
I troll rated you for ignorance - Like ignorance of the troll FAQ?
Troll-rated for smearing. - I'm an OBGYN!
Troll-rated for being - Presumably, the unbearable lightness of
Troll-rated for playing the victim. - It's gonna feel real after this TR
Troll Rated for Proven-false information - The Gitmo precedent
Troll Rated,to protect a Cheney hater from prison - That one got past me
I thought troll ratings were for something else - But for you, I'll make an exception
Troll rated for immense trollocity.
My top five favorite subject line justifications:
That gets a troll rating for the last comment. - The single transferable TR vote
I'm thinking of troll-rating and not reading - There's an epidemic
troll-rated you for not responding - Even bloggers need bathroom breaks
Anyone know the dKos record for troll ratings? - A call to Donuts!
Troll rated for providing facts - eek!
Is the dKos humor gene strong enough to withstand the hump day meta-snark?