Yahoo News Freeping revisited.

[OpSomBlood]

I know this is is a dupe, but it bears repeating. Looky here:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20040712/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Average rating 1.87, 155 votes.

The Freepers give news stories about U.S. soldiers getting killed in Iraq ratings of "1" in order to get them bumped off the radar.

It really is despicable.

[Citizen Daryl]

1. Can you provide a Freep message board link ...

... that shows there's a concerted effort on their part to do this?

I'd love to see that.

[Imalittleteapot]

2. Geez...2,114,102 posts on this story at Yahoo. n/t

[Citizen Daryl]

3. No, they just recycle message boards. n/t

[jadedcherub]

4. it's crazy. It spiked up to 2.2 almost, and since then I've just been

watching as every two or three votes come in, it drops lower. It's a 2.04 right now, and it's still the same phenomena. That means that all those votes that are coming in are either 1's or 2's, no?

Weird.

.jc.

[fearnobush]

5. 2.13 now.

29 solders dead, the first 11 days of June, I guess there tax savings on bush's cutting of vet benefits is a more important social issue to them.

[mom cat]

6. Good! Their efforts will keep them tied up and be counter-

productive all at the same time! If they are trying to prove how bad the story is, they are instead going to show what a great readership such stories get. I just love how dumb they are!:evilgrin:

[Ducks In A Row]

7. Only traitors vote 1's and 2's for stories like this

But freepers are all traitors in their hearts, so I'm not surprised.

[OpSomBlood]

8. They don't want people to see the fruits of Bush's war.

And that is indeed treason.