The abuse of blog ratings here @BooMan became obvious with marduk and nalbar.
After they trolled Arthur Gilroy, they came after me.
It’s just a foursome who set out on this obnoxious course of wrecking the blog community. Imposing their kind of morality on what is and is not acceptable to write. The old-style of the worst days @dKos.
Enters oncorhynchus with his harassment in the diaries of Arthur Gilroy. Harassment is defined as repeated bullying over time. When it becomes an obsession, or a compulsion, go see a psychiatrist. Repeating the same old tiresome accusations of lies where he expects AG to reply until he is satisfied. OAB never will be satisfied.
Don Durito made a valiant effort to stop this ugly behavior. His diary was up for quite a while – This blog has a ratings abuse problem. As the comments were posted in his diary, nalbar continues troll rating my posts elsewhere. Yes I called him out for that behavior.
More below the fold …
OAB and bazzz have now joined the vigilantes of BT.
Any comment I make in a front page article by Martin Longman, I get troll rated.
A new star bazzz said he wanted to engage in a conversation. I wrote two special diaries to engage. Bazzz too will never be satisfied in my replies. So bazzz, you have now joined the heavenly realms of troll rating me! What a big boy you are now.
Request to Martin. Please take down your stated ethics for writing on this blog … no one adheres to the rules of not being a prick. All debate of opposing views will be stifled.
This post of mine to Martin’s frontpage article was the most recent that got troll rated by nalbar … nice!
I won’t ask for an explanation, I am satisfied to witness this erratic behavior.
I won’t be silenced here @BooMan …. I have been part of this special blog community since its founding . Have written thousands of diaries throughout the 13 plus years. I still have plenty to analyse and write about, on a daily basis. You can find me on the right edge of this blog. My views are left progressive. Recently I have been accused of being an anti-Semite and in turn a Trump supporter. Both allegations are far from the truth. There are more than just one idiot in the White House. Right or left, so it goes.
Leftist Obrador Wins Mexican Election by a Landslide
An inspiring first speech by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador addressing his supporters from his campaign headquarters in Mexico City:
#LIVE | @lopezobrador_: "we will govern for all. Poor and rich. With an emphasis on the humblest. For the good of all, first the poor."#MexicoDecide #VotaMexico #Elecciones2018(_link) (_link) (_link)
— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) July 2, 2018
○ Mexico electionresults: López Obrador vows profound change after win | BBC News |
○ Leftist is victor in Mexican vote | The Globe & Mail |
My comment was NOT off-topic as Martin had a link to the Mexican election result in his article. Even then, it should NOT have been troll rated.
STOP!
[Update-1]
One of the rules would be no bringing shit from other blogs over here.
You kids want to fight about BT shit, go do it there.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Jul 3rd, 2018 at 04:19:38 PM PDT
[Update-2]
A prime example of a hateful comment added with a historic resentment. Going full nationalistic … living in a red state full of ignorance? WTF .. no I have no intent to “go away”!
If it weren’t for the Dutch and French in 1776, most likely your 13 states would not have “won” independence and stayed under British rule of King George III. I’m not sure if that would have prevented white puritans from the genocidal murdering of America’s indigenous people, the Indian tribes.
Just a few threads away, a smarter post …
Our country is the jackass now (4.00 / 2)
Nice country you had there, too bad you effed it all up.
The progression from Reagan to Quayle to Bush II to Palin to Trump completely confirms that white Republicans don’t prize intellect in any way, shape, or form. Their 1000% commitment to willful ignorance (and proud of it) was bound to reach Trump’s level of juvenality. And there’s no reason to ensure it will stop at that level.
We’ve ( the country collectively) let this happen. We overestimated our capabilities (collectively). We’ve underestimated the level of irrational evil in our fellow citizens and especially in the Republican cult and leadership.
Consequently, we’ve made ourselves an unreliable ally whose judgment (collectively) and commitment to alliances and international norms can’t be trusted.
Torture, waterboarding, rendition/detention/black sites, unregulated crashing financial markets, unwarranted destabilizing invasions, turning our backs on treaties – all of those things happened under Bush II who was also an ignorant buffoon.
Trump is an even more ignorant buffoon and he brings trade wars more racist immigration policies, more treaties/agreements being abrogated and serial sexual assaulting into the mix to turn up the stupid and evil to eleven.
Unless a longer term plan starts shaping up to fix the structural problems in our governing framework this trend will be both recurring and intensifying.
by LosGatosCA on Thu Jul 5th, 2018 at 04:54:35 AM MEST
Could have been my own words …. jeez, they are exactly what I have diaried about here @BooMan. Living in a parallel universe?
[For fair treatment join the sister blog European Tribune – where dissent is NOT troll rated!]
Excersizes in self pity and avoidance of your own responsibilities.
Good trolling by the way, but so far i dont think you impress anyone.
Lets ask people- Is there anyone who thinks Oui has a point, perhaps it is time to speak up and engage, if you care for any of it. Give Oui your support, and lets discuss truthfully and honestly what has been going on.
So far this has been rather pointless, a futile exercise in trying to create a basis of trust where Oui chooses to insult rather than engage.
I asked Oui to give me an alternative way to get to a serious conversation, or discussion, but i was met with insults.
But i only feel Oui is out to harass and provoke rather than to engage anything.
If one side is open to discussion, but the other only cares to propagate, is there a point of going on?
I am open to other viewpoints, if you agree with Oui in any way, lets talk about it, i am open to it.
For Oui himself, you first need to change some things mate, before i can be open to talk to you face to face. It feels like you are completely disingenuous and arent interested in anything but your own feelings and interpretations, and in the process fail to recognize your own toxicity.
As for Arthur, although he has his own problematic behavior at times, and like you chooses to gish gallop whenever he is confronted with difficult questions, or unwelcome viewpoints, i think he is more genuine, and tries to be better.
I feel since i have confronted him with his more disrespectful behavior, he has tried to avoid some of it.
Some people have the ability to change and learn, others have no chance, and are stuck in endless loops of repeating the same things with the same outcome.
So far you, Oui, seems to be stuck into behaving in strange ways and unable to change.
I hope i am wrong and you can change for the better too, like Arthur.
. . . dishonesty with ag of routinely, serially lying about the motivations and reasons of your critics and the substance of our critiques — even though we’ve explained them in exhaustive detail.
Just fundamentally, blatantly, completely dishonest.
ghod what a whining bitch.
You believe it’s “ethical” for you to spew nonsense here and “not ethical” for the rest of us to complain.
this blog does not have a “ratings abuse” problem, it has a diary abuse problem with people who aren’t here for good faith discussion of issues. Since booman won’t get rid of the small number of abusers, all the rest of us can do is use ratings to indicate our desire for you to go away.
We should really take this opportunity, on America’s `birthday’ to thank the American service men whom spent so much blood and treasure liberating countries that were under the yoke of tyranny.
So let’s start with the Americans that died liberating Belgium at the end of WWll.
Belgium was a neutral country, by which is meant….they depended on the military strength of surrounding countries to protect Belgium borders, allowing them to spend little on defense, and yet wrap themselves in a nice warm blanket of moral superiority. This did not work out so well, because in 1940 they were conquered for the second time in thirty years by the Germans. After the Germans conquered them, the Germans moved on to France, but fearing a Belgium uprising, the Germans did leave a couple platoons to keep an eye on the famously rambunctious Belgiums.
But Belgium did not worry! They knew the British and Americans would not desert them. And sure enough, the Allies landed on D-Day. This consortium was made up of England, Canada, Australia, France, and America. I believe some Belgium troops did take part, coming ashore on the third day (after all the beaches were secure). Everything went great (from the Belgium perspective), until the Germans decided to drive the allies `into the sea’ in the Ardennes Forest. They attacked the Americans in what became the `Battle of the Bulge’. The Americans were surrounded, and cut off….and in such dire straights that the Germans demanded their surrender. Of course the Americans knew defeat would be disastrous, not only losing the newly rescued Belgium, but putting the whole invasion in doubt. So, knowing the stakes, the Americans decided to fight to the last man….for Belgium. And at the cost of the most American casualties per capita of any battle in the European Theatre for the whole war, the Americans prevailed. On Belgium soil there are American graveyards, where these brave men are buried. And in the Ardennes, you can still find the remains of men who died, rather than face defeat on Belgium soil.
No Belgium soldiers took part in the battle, nor in the rescue of the trapped troops. But they did cheer them, when the wounded came into Brussels.
Where was the King of Belgium during this? Well, King Leopold was a Nazi sympathizer, who was busy trying to accommodate the Germans.
Thanks America!
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