I just found about 12 negative ratings…all 1s…on various comments and replies that i have made over the last 24 hours by an entity known as “marduk.” It has never contributed a diary and has only 5 basically one-sentence comments starting from mid-August.
Now…I am not averse to criticism, but I do like to be able to answer it. This cowardly tactic was at one time rampant on dKos. Enough negative ratings and people were essentially terminated there. I don’t know if the problem still exists at dKos nor am I clear on how many negative ratings will auto-terminate a poster on BooTrib, so I am going to ask all here who think I make at least a few valid points to counter-rate this creature at least until he or she comes out of its hiding place and speaks plainly.
Downrate it? No. That’s playing its game. All I want is protection against its own downrating. Uprate me until it stops this foolishness.
Thank you…
AG
C’mon, marduk. Put your brain where your ratings are.
I dare ya.
AG
Trollish behavior by marduk
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BooMan has a set of guidelines!
Easiest way to find the trollish ratings by marduk via his own ratings page – link here.
AG, may the 4’s be with You …
Bet on it!
😉
Thank you.
AG
I have appreciated your input and presence in the pond for many years. Hope to hear about your musical virtues now and then too!
It’s never dull when AG is around … and you don’t even have to agree with his statements. Always a NY native son … wasn’t it?
Always a New Yorker. Always. Since the 1630s on one side of the family, the 1840s on the other. One of the 1840s family rose from the Five Points Irish ghetto to become NYC mayor in the late 1800s.
Thank you…
AG
AG–Your comments are sometimes witty but more often make me grit my teeth. Having written that, I will state that I’ve never rated a comment, not looked at how anyone rated mine. Not snark. It just never occurred to me that those ratings are important.
I try always to remember that Booman owns this blog and I am a guest.
Feigning innocence and fawning again. Yes.
I just checked and you have a mojo of 2.978, which is very low for a regular user.
I want to remind you that no rating counts against your mojo unless at least two people vote. So, a singular zero or one or two won’t hurt you and a singular four will not help you.
This prevents a flamewar with one individual from spiking your account. It’s only if two or more people gang up on you that you need to worry about the effect on your mojo.
Still, at a nearly ‘3’ rating, you are no imminent danger of being voted off the island.
Your response here is appropriate although kind of a shitty diary. Appealing for support from the community is far better than retaliating in kind.
As for the ratings, I haven’t examined them all. I believe some of them were justifiable, and I have been discussing your recent behavior with you. As a whole though, troll ratings are not for disagreement. They are for positive reinforcement and in extreme cases for spiking spam and blatant trolls.
As I’ve noted, some of your behavior recently has all the appearance of trolling, which is why I’m inclined to give people a break for downrating it. If I didn’t know you and know you a long time, I would downrate it, too.
But, users should feel free to uprate any comment of yours that they believe was downrated based solely on disagreement, or to support you based on the fact that you are not a troll.