TAKE NOTE WHEN RATING YAHOO STORIES!!!

[BUSHOUT]

Yahoo keeps changing the URL, so the story linked from a forum (like this one) still gets displayed, but the rating won't count.

Take this great story for example:

Doubts Persist About Election Results
By RACHEL KONRAD, Associated Press Writer

As the Electoral College (news - web sites) prepares to certify President Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election on Monday, concerns persist about the integrity of the nation's voting system — particularly in Ohio, where details continue to emerge of technology failures, voter confusion and overcrowded polling stations in minority and poor neighborhoods.
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It's critical that we investigate and understand any and every voting irregularity anywhere in our country, not because it would change the outcome of the election but because Americans have to believe that their votes are counted in our democracy," John Kerry (news - web sites) said this week, after calling for a statewide recount in Ohio.
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In the last five weeks, activists have documented thousands of voting problems across the nation. The citizens' lobby group Common Cause received 210,000 phone calls to a hot line that logged complaints
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In six states, including Florida and Texas, about three dozen voters complained that they selected Kerry on touch-screen machines but were shown as having voted for Bush until they revised their electronic ballot. Equipment manufacturers blamed the problem on miscalibration

If you go here and rate it your rating won't apply:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&e=1&u=/ap/20041210/ap_on_el_pr/unsettled_election

GO HERE INSTEAD, SCROLL TO THE STORY HEADING AND CLICK THROUGH:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=536
THEN RATE IT, IT WILL COUNT.

[liberalhistorian]

1. Thanks for the heads-up,

I like to rate Yahoo stories and I didn't know this.

[gaia_gardener]

2. It's been freepered (is that a word?)

Don't even bother looking at the message board. The vitriolic posts turned my stomach.

[BUSHOUT]

7. Freeped. Shit on. Puked on. Stunk up. Visted by retarded cousins...

any will do :evilgrin:

[ObaMania]

8. Oh, I love hitting the message boards @ Yahoo..

.. and screwing with the FReeps. They are friggin' idiots and I like to throw comments in to piss 'em off! :evilgrin:

[DemBones DemBones]

3. That's good to know. I don't fault Yahoo for doing it,

it slows down the freepers as much as it slows us down! (Probably more, actually.) People should read stories before they rate them. But we also have to combat their freeping of ratings.

[ElectroPrincess]

4. You're a great researcher who follows-up BUSHOUT!

I'm so glad you're on OUR political side :-).

Yeah, you're the BEST at what you do mahn! Mega Kudos!

[BUSHOUT]

6. Thanks! But actually, I found the link AND the tip on DU! Thank Zorra...

It was in LBN here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1061667

[hlthe2b]

5. I must be dense, but it shows it registers either way I do it...

Can you explain a bit more?

[BUSHOUT]

9. Sure. It will COUNT your vote, but it won't change the avg. rating...

It's still at 3.29 w/ 1939 votes
If you go here http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1061667
you can see it was at 3.29 w/ 1888 votes about 10 hours ago.

[Nordic]

10. Huh. yeah, I thought I rated that story earlier today, but

now it says I didn't.

Fucked up.

Anyone else noticed how all the AP stories are slanted to the RW these days? I mean, just obvious as all hell?