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Let me tell you I really love coming here. I have been here for a pretty long time. I was told by other folks that having a UID less than 10000 here at the big Orange pretty much makes you an old timer. Out of all this time, I have heard about this mysterious beastie called a Trusted User, or 'TU' in short.
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Trusted User, or Troll User?
So I come here to dKos, and I notice a few things different about the website today. The two things I notice are:
- Hidden Comments
- Ability to Add/Edit Tags
Whoo hoooo!
So I have become a TU after all these years. or .... perhaps, I have become one, and never noticed, then lost my mojo and became a regular user? or something like that? So, I click on the Hidden Comments, and notice that this indeed live the Trolls of the Big Orange! Pretty nifty place I must say. I never knew there were so many Trolls here. In fact, I think some of the Troll-folk really enjoy being Trolls. So, I went and fired off a few pot-shots, (of my daily 5-shot limit of Troll pts) and came back to the regular land of dKos.
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I must say, it did feel good to toss some of those Troll pts at some of these comments. I am not so sure I would do it in regular dKos land though.
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Writing Diaries
Early on, in the big O, I searched mightily, far and wide to post what I thought was politically or socially important. However, I have found that there are many fine people within this community that have pretty much scoured the Internet clean of any and all things related to all things political. and... if that isn't enough, there are many other fine sites that have news with a political bent out there too. I also thought I could contribute something along a economic vein, however, I have found that bonddad does a very fine job of this also. So, with all of this in mind, what did this leave me? Well, mostly now, I contribute stuff in the obscure tech/geeky domain, and diaries I call metadiaries. What are metadiaries? Metadiaries is a term that I made up that concern diaries about diaries, or commenting here at the big O. One of the metadiaries I wrote was about the fine dKos sport that you will only find here at the big O, which I call Comment Blog Racing
So a few questions pop up in my mind:
- What exactly is this Trusted User thing anyhow?
- Who else in this fine community is a TU?
- How are TU's selected? (Grand Council of dKos, or Markos primed with a few beers?)
- Or is TU overrated?
Just wanting a few comments from others in this community. Next ... I gotta figure out how a diary gets on the recc'd list, not rescue mind you, but how one gets enough mojo to get on the recc'd list.