Reply #84: The whining is the organized talking point, not the calling it what it is.

[TexasObserver]

If there are trolls and other agents of evil out there, they want a system they can game - which was the previous system. With a handful of like minded posters, any trolling group could easily get one of their pet threads on the Greatest Page. Now they cannot. Now, they must run the gauntlet of regular DUers, who vote down the absurd threads that used to make it to the Greatest Page with regularity.

Now, the sane DU posters can control the ability of such trolling forces to skew the Greatest Page. Now, we can keep their dumb threads off the Greatest Page, and we can label such threads with the disapproval we feel for them.

Your complaint is simply not valid and not based upon fact. It's not good threads being kept off the Greatest page, but bad ones, weak ones, absurd ones.

It's time for some DUers to finally grow up and face the reality that not everyone who thinks their threads suck is a troll, a freeper, or a DLC agent.