Seriously.

but only because my internet crashed on me, otherwise mine would be gone as well.

Saved by my crappy ISP...

I didn't rate that comment and my abilities were revoked.

The purge was definitely politically motivated.

Jerome Armstong = Joe Mccarthy

Still can.

I have ratings ability, I'm an Obama supporter (by attrition), but I have avoided the primary wars since Edwards dropped out.  Follow the rules, don't cry about the other side not following the rules, and you'll be fine.  This will be over next week.

I don't bother downrating stupid comments.

I still have my abilities and I use them to uprate really dumb shit.

On any site, respect flows both ways between admins and users.  Until things return to normal here, just man up and reserve some extra usernames.

I still have ratings ability. But I didn't get involved in the infamous "Is this snark" incident. And I think I may have only once given a 0 rating.  

A warning would have sufficed.  Alegre was baiting the diarist (as I am sure you know) she was being dismissive and rude (just like those boyz comments that I am getting sick of seeing).

Removing her own ratings history in an attempt to cover up her own ratings abuse was over the top.

I have not been tazed, bro.

Also don't forget in your poll, you should add a category for people who have re registered with new accounts.

I heard of people that had a virtual type ban, where they can log in, see hidden comments, but do nothing else (post, comment, tr, rec)

Anyways, I think it's noteworthy to include those folks in your poll.

Should not have posted that picture NewHampster made.

In the end, political blogging is no different than wasting time playing RPGs.  MyDD has been very amusing for the past several months.

The most amusing troll to date is without a doubt IsThisSnark, but I predict he/she is not long for this world...

FWIW, I'm an Obama supporter.  I can still rec/rate.

I saw that Alegre post and decided to leave it alone, because while it was rude I didn't think my 1 was necessary.  Lucky me, I guess.  We just need to keep on trucking, because supposedly there will be an amnesty some time after the primaries.  Or at least that's what Jerome said.

I'm good.

Without Obama supporters this site dies. If things don't change after Tuesday we should discuss what to do about it.

A "1" is a "troll" rating, not a "down" rating..

But a serious problem!!!

It won't let me rate my own comments.  WTF?!?!?!  My comments KICK ASS!!!

MOJO ME ASAPx3!!!

I lost mine but recently got it back. I commented on a few of the diaries discussing the issue a few days ago about how I had lost it after giving just one TR, so that might have been why I got it back.

Anyhow, I'm glad I have it back. I think admins should give back the ability after Hillary drops out, to give everyone a fresh start.

I shall mojo the O-field.

I neither rated the infamous comment nor recced the infamous diary.

i do not advocate ratings abuse and never engage in it - but some (and i am not saying you) are earning it.  spamming diaries, attacking diarists and generally being nasty.  what else do you suggest they do?

in the quest to become arbiters of what is allowed here, in effect - what your colleagues are doing is chasing off anyone that disagrees with them - is this what you want?  if people want a BO echo chamber, then why dont they go to kos?

It's somewhat like the Matrix. The few (those of us who can rate), and the many, locked in the Matrix without a voice.

I've got 'em. Don't know if I'll use them though. The whole point to community moderation is that if a lot of the community thinks something is worthless, it goes away. "Piling-on" of TRs is exactly what is supposed to happen as it demonstrates that more people thought it was trolling than worthwhile. This is ruined now on this blog.

I can rate and rec, and I take my TU status seriously and review the HR comments regularly.  I try to only give HR's for things that are so offensively shocking, and TR's for abusing other users.  I'm not a piler-on unless I see that others are trying to uprate something that should be hidden.  I try to be fair in my ratings, although I am admittedly biased towards Obama commenters.  HRC zealots (which is not the same as HRC supporters) like to call me out for rating them (see if you can guess who they are).  And I know for a fact that one of them went through my comment history and downrated five of my comments for pure retaliation after I downrated an offensive Obama slur.  Three have said they reported me for my alleged abuse.  Since I have not lost my ratings ability, I assume Jerome or another admin saw the offense in their remarks.

I can still rec and rate.  I was out of town during the purge.

I don't really understand why Jerome is handling these situations the way he is.  I do think he will eventually regret some of the choices he has made along the way.

My guess is that it will happen after he writes his first pro-Obama diary and gets added to the ever-expanding "He was never a real democrat and I have always really hated him anyway" list.  I think next week the list is going to include most superdelegates.

I've HAD, since I opened my account, a drop down that gives me three options.

0-Hide
1-Troll
2-Mojo

Until recently I've been a TU on Dailykos (until I left for a month to the Non-Commissioned Officer Academy), but I was puzzled why my mydd account gave me that privilege from the beginning. Is this a normal account?

I appreciate the attention! It's only my third diary and, honestly, not much work for me. Bioinformatics is way more complex than manipulating data from a couple of spreadsheets. I actually spent more time on the one earlier today (The Cake is a Lie) with a similar theme, simply because then I had to, you know, be eloquent and stuff to get my point across. Throwing at numbers people is what I do to relax. And in my research. I like my research. It's like I exist in an XKCD comic some days, in a good way...

(BTW, 1453 is prime. Not that I immediately tried to prime factor it.)

But, with the extra attention, all of a sudden I feel like my comments are contributing and I feel obliged only to say serious, insightful things.

Uh...

Um...

Woozle wuzzle?

Dang.

And I give lots of recs (or 2's, or, as it used to be, 4's).  I decided a long time ago that if I started troll-rating posts and people I didn't like, I'd enjoy it too much and never be able to stop.  Just like contract-killing.

It's much more fun to slander people you don't like.  It's less chickenshit.