My indignation about John Howard (JCHFleetguy) and his deliberate arrogance has two parts, because he's egregiously misguided on both scores.
A case in point: "Cookies" and "Trolls"
Here's the StreetProphets FAQ on the matter: (copied largely from DailyKos, as you will note referring to "Recommend/Hide" whereas at StreetProphets they are called "Cookies/Hide".
Rating comments
Any registered user can rate comments in a diary. Buttons to give these ratings are at the bottom of each comment. For regular users, comments can be recommended; trusted users can recommend or hide comments. The number of ratings that your comments gather, and their average value, determines your comment mojo. Mojo is used primarily for determining whether a user has trusted user status. So, when is each rating appropriate? Much virtual ink has been wasted in arguments, but the following is generally accepted:
Hide rating: Comments whose only purpose is to disrupt the discussion. Do not hide posts simply because you disagree with what the commenter is saying. Any given user can give out a maximum of five hide-ratings per day.
Recommend: Good comment. Also usually a shorthand for 'I agree', or also 'good job'. Most ratings given out tend to be recommends.
Note that there isn't a rating for 'I disagree'. If you disagree with something in a comment, post a reply saying so (and why).
If you wish to remove a rating that you gave to a comment, simply click the recommend or hide button a second time. Comments can be given ratings for 24 hours; after this point, ratings cannot be given or removed from the comment.
One piece of Daily Kos slang worth knowing refers to a recommend as a "4" and a hide as a "zero" or, by analogy, a "donut" (or "doughnut"). Hides used to be called 'troll-rate', and some people still use the old language.
Here is how I find my peace with what occurred in 2009/10.
I rec everything I read (0+ / 0-)
it has been my style for 3 years here.
I am not changing it for you.
To find out about me: http://braincrampsforgod.blogspot.com/2009/09/about-me.html
by JCHFleetguy on Sun Oct 11, 2009 at 09:48:01 AM PST
If you search for "snafubar" in "users" on StreetProphets, it will lead you to a page that allows you to view every comment I ever posted at that site since some time in 2007. You may search, one by one, and you will not find once in two and a half years where anyone "hide/troll" rated a single comment.
not one.
So if you leave a mark that say "Thumbs up" - it means "i approve this message." That is the universal standard, and the ostensible reason that the blog designers put it there.
Not John Howard - nope. Fleetguy says he rec's everything that he reads, just to show he read it. And he's not changing it for me .
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Two guys driving in a car, driver sails right through a red light. Passenger screams - "what are you doing?
Driver says, "relax, my brother drives like this"
come to another red light, driver sails right through - -
Passenger is panicking - "What the hell are you doing?"
Driver waves him off, "will you relax, my brother drives like this, always"
they drive and encounter a green light; driver slams on the brakes and stops.
Passenger has turned white, "What the hell are you doing?"
driver says, "Well, my brother might be comin the other way"
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SO if there is a social convention that everyone uses and everyone accepts that certain gestures have certain meanings, JCH Fleetguy - John Howard or Howell or whatever his name is -
he's going to do it his way, and he's not stopping for any one - not me in the least.
Good to know.
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