But sometimes being mean to trolls is fun!

Good to see the 'devil child' is working for peace ;) Nice post.

But they're like a train wreck -- horrible, but you can't look away.

flip flopper! Not me!

The trolls are loving uproar. It must compensate for the humiliations of the primaries. Deprive them.

Obama flipped all you guys. But you guys are beyond shame!

I would vote for a Democrat in November. It is unfortunate that Obama is the Democratic party nominee.

Unfortunately even he can not prevent me voting for a Democrat. Obama is a chicago machine politician. Nothing more! Nothing less!

I get sucked in every time I see them on the rec list.  I've decided to Rec every diary that isn't written by the "nobama" fools with the hope that they will eventually be pushed off of the rec list.    I'll stop when they're gone.

I apologize for using the word humiliated. I think Hillary supporters have every reason to be outraged by the media and netroot treatment of Clinton. I certainly am. But it has inspired me to commit myself to a new feminist movement, not waste time fighting with people whose basic politics are probably similar to mine.

I spend six months posting dozens of emails to my daughters arguing that they misperceived Obama. I could have posted the best of them to my blogs and diaries, boasting about my superior insight into Obama. But instead I joined mybarackobama, blogged frequently, and established two groups that are safe havens for former Hillary supporters. Any email or blog post that bashes Hillary is trashed. I have absolute control of the groups. I have reported Hillary bashing posts on other groups as objectionable content.

Well, I usually didn't interfere in sibling squabbles unless blood was involved.

I think I better put the "she who laughs, lasts" quote back on my signature. Or better still, Jane Austen's, "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

Maybe we should explore the similarities between our relationship with our siblings and our relationship with people we regard as trolls. Bashing siblings is always fun.

I can't decide who are the trolls, so I don't know whom to ignore:)

My diary on whether feminists could be misogynists had a higher caliber of comments. Maybe we all should move over there. Or,  we might enjoy the diary on bipolar disorder:)

I am eternally grateful I decided never to rate comments, hide them, or report them as trolling.  I would be agonizing about this thread all night.

My diary on "discovering childhood bipolar disorder" is by far the most important one I have posted, and only my friends have recommended it, and  7 people have commented.

The Soviets used to drug political resisters and lock them up in psychiatric gulags. We are doing that to our kids. Doesn't anyone care?

Being manic/depressive myself..
there are times I can brush off the noquarter folks..and times that the "fuck'em" attitude plays out..

Saturday afternoon music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i48BP1PUo FI

A common practice on Mydd (and other blogs) is try to discern the motivation of the diarist rather than respond to the substance of the diary.  

Its a mistake.  When you put your intellectual energy toward responding to the logic (or lack there of) in a diary, you don't have to decide whether or not its written by a troll.

I read a lot of diaries on Mydd.  Very few strike me as trollish.  The ones that do, I just ignore.  All the others, I take at face value.  I assume that the diarist actually believes her/his argument.

If its a subject I find interesting, I read and perhaps offer a comment.  If I think there is an obvious flaw in the argument, I try to point it out in the most compelling way that I can.  (Though I don't often succeed.)

Give people the benefit of the doubt, for goodness sake.  Maybe you really really really don't agree with their point of view.  But from my perspective, its the Admins' right to decide which conversations they want to host and which they don't.  

Any time the Admins say there's a conversation they don't want to have here, we should all be prepared to move that conversation elsewhere.  Until that point, forget about trying to decide whether someone is a troll or not.  Begin from the presumption that the diarist's are speaking from their heart and true beliefs.

Redstocking, I respect your views but definitely disagree when it comes to supporting a candidate who abandoned progressive and democratic principles  (e.g. free speech, intolerance for sexism, the sanctity of all votes) during the primary season.

About the racial politics during the primary, I don't believe the Clintons are racists (I'm NOT accusing you for saying they are!).  Since I'm a great admirer of Jesse Jackson and his work over the years--and since I voted for him in 1988 when he ran for the presidency--and since he won 11 primaries (a first for any African American), I didn't see how referring to Obama and Jesse Jackson in the same sentence was racist.  Like other persons of color, I have a radar for racism, but believe me Clinton's statement about Obama winning the S.C. like J. Jackson was NOT racist.  

Also, I agree that Obama is and has always been to the right of Sen Clinton--his FISA vote makes the point.  

About the "trolling" issue: Have any pro-Obama trolls been censored or banned from this site?  I'm referring to those who insult or otherwise try to intimidate dissenting view points when it concerns Obama, his slippery character, and his shifting positions.  
I wonder . . . .

and reasonable support for our democratic nominee.

The trolls need to be banned or called out as such.