The last month or so has seen a dramatic increase of vicious attacks on Dean (and his supporters) by non-Dean supporters on this website.
(Note, this has been reposted from the comments of another diary).
Case-in-point:
On the 24th, a diary entry was created by a user (who shall remain anonymous) that basically made up lies about Dean. I was angry, as there's so much of it floating around, that I refuted some of it and then ended it by telling him to drink a nice hot cup of shut the f@#k up. Long story made short, I got in a flame war with some gep and clark supporters, they rated me as super troll, I lost trusted user status. Normally I'd ask some of my Dean supporter friends to help me out, but seeing as it was the 24th, not many people were around.
Then I did something foolish- I created a few other names with other emails and rated myself back up to regain trusted user, which I had earned by posting wisely and intelligently since this summer. They pointed it out to kos, those other screen names have been disabled, and I'm back to square one. Granted, I shouldn't have done what I did, and I'll be the first to admit it and apologize, but in the end, it seems unfair that I got the short end of the stick because I told non-Dean supporters to shut up if they were going to lie. And I won't apologize for telling people to shut up if they're not telling the truth. Bush supporters are going to spew lies- get used to it, we're going to have to combat it hardly and directly.
Anyway, there were enough of them to gang up on me. Not that I'm trying to justify my actions, because I'm not, but I don't think that they were in the right, either. They emailed kos and they collectively labeled me as a troll. Which isn't fair, because if you look at my old account's history, I had many diary entries and had been rated highly by some of the most respected members of this community, ie theoria, deminva, folkbum, and many others.
So, I guess I'm apologizing, because two wrongs never make a right. However, I warn other Dean supporters to beware of this; some (and certainly not all) non-Dean supporters are getting vicious in their attacks, and we need to watch one another's back. It's indeed sad that we all can't get along.