"Pants on the ground looking like a fool with your pants on the ground" That video is classic
Thanks for the laugh!

https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...

That jogged a memory~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMwhl...

Good thing pants down around your knees type advertising hadn't been invented yet..

You jogged my memory back to the mid-80s, which was THE roughhouse decade at that max security prison I used to work at.
I went to the shift office to tell the shift commander about stuff going on in 2 Block where I most often worked at that time..
Can't recall what I said; but while I spoke, he leaned back in his chair, crossed his hands on his desk and just beamed with a big smile.
Believe I concluded by asking a question about what I should do about whatever
Before he said anything else, he told me he loved the way I described stuff.
No. he wasn't gay.
An inmate known as Mother Nature thought I was hot but I was thin and in my prime back then.

Your descriptions are always worth a thousand pictures...

Yeah, I've had threads that started out bumping along like a biplane on a pasture before taking off.

That's encouraging. I'd like to see what's left of the forts about Liege that held up Imperial Germany's PASS GO trampling of Belgium's neutrality thus screwing up their one of two prongs planned flanking maneuver to conquer Paris before before the Russians could mobilize on the Eastern Front back in August of 1914.
Should you pay for my travel costs that would include my tour and lodging so you may also buy me Dinoburger, I shall email you a moocher note of appreciation, you good 'ole enabler you.

Happens to me a Lot Dino...but the funny thing is that it usually turns out to be a successful post.

Sometimes I change the heading a bit and the mark downers go away, hopefully not mad, just slink away back into the shadows.

We, that get marked down...have more positive support than you might think old friend.

I'm waffling on whether to accept your offer.

Hope you come back after everyone quits jumping up and down.
Guess old dino would be part of the blame.

I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a Belgian Dinoburger today.

http://www.dinosnack.be/DinOSnack/Pre...

My guess would be election overload/burnout.

I know that's why I don't come here much anymore.

I only downvote when I disagree with a poster who negatively responds to a negative comment by the original poster on a positive response to another poster that I don’t happen to agree with. And then only on Tuesdays.

I shall treasure it always.

Thanks, dino. A fiat back at 'ya!

A creepy crawly Clintonistatroll down-voting nickusis's unemployed coal miner with Clinton does make slimy demorat sense.
Me dino humbly submits +1 of meaningless little value unto freedomforall for you to blow your nose at. It's a participation trophy! Yay!

I'll take my chances with the troll downvotes or even for disagreement by someone with particularly strong views. I occasionally comment as a stealthy devil's advocate and I hope for strong responses and discussion.
In 2 weeks the election cycle will be done and the downvotes will likely decline precipitously, imo.

As discussed at length before there is no cost to upvotes so they have little value. They are like federal reserve notes which are constantly inflated. Change the system to have all upvotes backed by reducing the upvoter's total points for every upvote. If I like what you have said, I should be willing to award you one of the points awarded to me.
Make awards mean something again.

Last night me dino got set off for seeing a zero beside the coal miner with Clinton post.
I scoped the post out and concluded it did not deserve a zero at all.
Just looked. It has a 5 beside it now. All is well.

What specifically got down-voted? Was it wanton like a kid tagging a train car, or were all comments of a specific thread subtracted out? This has happened to me too.

Actually It does hide posts from Nazis, kooks, trolls. In the past it has worked somewhat by making their comments invisible.

But on principle, I agree, forms of censorship are usually bad. Maybe it is time to ditch down voting. #SpeakFreely

-1 Just kidding. (psst! did the opposite)

Secretive
+1 = What a wonderful person!
-1 = Dirty mouse coward troll!

Openly owning it
+1 = Relative to your analytical and hopefully not overly emotional reaction and with your good name/moniker out there to be judged by others
-1 = Same thing

I agree that down voting serves little purpose - differing views can be expressed in Comments. Either that, or the Producer designation be expanded to include Contributers to Hillary''s "Stronger Together" campaign... (just kidding!)

Maybe the ability to see who did up and down voting might be useful -- although no one seems to mind gratuitous up voting!