An interesting thesis. Unfortunatley, you are now breaking a rule of the site as well:

*Users who are bashing or attacking any other user on the site, including authors of diaries and frontpage postings, will be banned. Candidates and politicians are fair game (but that doesn't mean you can use inflammatory language against candidates).

With that being said, I don't know if I buy you're complaint about 4justice, I will have to look at the posts further. But unfortunatley, you are now breaking site rules as well, and should be disciplined.

Hey there, when you blatantly violate site rules by insulting other diarists ("dogs and chickens") come to mind, or any of the candidates,or the site itself, these can be hidden, or given a "hide rate"

When you make an assinine comment, or hijack the diary, or when you yourself troll rate people for no reason than for disagreeing with you, they can recieve a "troll" rating.

I seen dozens of your comments and I think this last set of blatantly insulting comments deserved a response.

Oh, and BTW, you are violating site rules right now.  

Hey, username, I would delete this diary and handle your problem directly within another diary.  This wont end up good for you.  

I suggest you delete this diary now, before you get banned and have to return as username4.

I have to say the "TRed for blah" --> "TRed for TR abuse" --> "Uprated for TR abuse" --> etc. on another thread was quite amusing.

A good rule of thumb.

When you find yourself so aggravated with a poster in an online blog that you feel compelled to assmble an entire diary (complete with a poll) impugning that nasty username in the big endless cybersea...

it's probably a good idea to have a snack and get away from the computer!  

:-)

Well actually this whole diary fills the requirement for hide rating, in so many ways.  I won't even bother to look at the comments that you are talking about, because this diary is probably an example of why she troll rates you.  The diary is also a bannable offense.

do it within a thread.  Don't clutter up the diary list with this kind of thing.  I agree with you that some people abuse their rating privileges (Note: I am not commenting on your allegations by saying this).  There is an appropriate way to bring this up if you feel you need to:  email the site administrators.  If your complaints are really valid, they may do something about it.  If not, well, it's their site.  

They are simply cover for silencing those who are in the minority.  My rating ability was disabled and I have never given a TR, insulted another poster, insulted a canidate or participated in any form of personal attack.  I e-mailed Jerome to ask why and never even received a response, why because there can be none, as I have abided by the TOS at every turn.  I'm not really upset but more disappointed, sad.   I'm sad that while people who abuse the rating system, call other posters names, disparage canidates retain the ability to post, voices of moderation who are not in the Clinton camp loose the ability to rate.  It's almost as if they want to create a echo chamber.