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Mesodude

Some people find that kind of thing amusing. I think it is a waste of time and I would rather give another story a chance to make it to the top.

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I am not as polite as Meso. I would rip someone a new hole if they tried to pass that on my watch. If you know what Acorn refers to and what the lending law really stated about making loans to blacklisted neighborhoods you get a free pass for awhile. So far the prize sits unclaimed.

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People should understand that reading a story gives it a higher rank.
Commenting higher still.
Commenting more -higher still.
"proping" higher still.
I think many are missing the point of Spadecaller's piece.
I am embarrassed sometimes when stories of obvious untruth or extremely poorly written ad-farms are voted up to number 1 on the front page. It makes our community look bad. (Or at least wacky).
I don't see why anyone would vote for a story that they found of poor quality.
Commenting, yes I understand.
I see voting as recommendation.
I often look at stories the people I respect have propped and if it's a picture of someone's cat, or a KKK blog, or some blathering by someone incapable of stringing more than 2 syllables together, I feel their honor is tarnished a bit.

There should be no censorship of course, submit what you wish, but as responsible citizens of the virtual community I hope people will only vote-recommend stories of honest interest . If it's brown..flush it down.
those were theses Martin Luther put on the front door. Not feces!

Now if you think it's good, interesting, or important ,vote.
If it's roadapples, commenting raises it's ranking enough, for goodness sake don't give it credibility. There is a contingent of laughable goosestepping nazis and KKK members fouling the same dimwitted garbage threads over and over...I for one learned there is no point reasoning with them or communicating with them as that would be less fruitful than reasoning with a slug.
This has absolutely nothing to do with politics as there are plenty of reasonably intelligent members of all political stripes who I enjoy debating with.
This is about seriously feeble minded ogres or actual operatives up to mischief.
Don't help them.
Don't encourage them.
Judging from the hate mail, I'm quite sure some think my posts are" the debil".
That's fine, by all means if you don't like them don't vote for them.
Debate what's worthy of debating, but if someone submits "Joe is a poopyhead from mars with fish flops on his feet" don't waste electrons voting for it please.

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