Corruption in the FBI/NSA - 275 Votes - One Star -Statistically impossible

[dArKeR]

Iraq Police Search for Algerian Diplomats
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050723/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

It's the Echelon Blackboxes on all ISPs voting to keep stories out of the news. I've caught too many of these for it to be a statistical event of a lifetime. It's only on Iraq 'bad news' stories.

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[iconoclastic cat]

1. Perhaps this had something to do with it:

Meanwhile,
Syria claimed its border guards were fired on by U.S. and Iraqi troops. A statement issued Thursday cited "about 100 armed clashes, some of which were carried out by American soldiers who opened fire randomly." It did not elaborate.

[teryang]

2. Bad news from Iraq is invariably rated down

It is obviously some sort of programmed response.

The frank comment in the article about political developments in Iraq needing to conform to administration domestic political needs was particularly damaging.

The complete state of chaos sure is different from the administrations version of Iraq.

[Al-CIAda]

3. This is interesting, thanks. I went to the discussion area

and the replies there are all resonses one would find here, so clearly these indicate there would be a much higher interest rating for this story. If this is happening regularly, I say you are on to something.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. It isn't echelon.

It's the stupid fucking freepers. Quite frankly, Yahoo ratings aren't worth anyone's time.

[dArKeR]

9. It's not freepers. Shown that. Top six stories on Yahoo top right

front page. One is a bad Iraq story with the above example. The next story would be something freepers absolutely hate. Hillary, Kerry, or some Media Whore talking about how good Bush is. It only takes seconds to click and rate a yahoo story. If it were freepers they'd rate the Iraq 'bad news' one star then rate Hillary/Kerry a One star also. Or you'd see a good Bush story a Five Star. This is NEVER the case. I've been tracking this for months. Hllary/Kerry stories will still be high. Bush low.

It is collusion, racketeering. And all the stats are there for anyone to analyze.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

10. I highly doubt...

...that anyone with Echelon gives a fuck about Yahoo news ratings. You're looking at an astonishingly small demographic. It simply isn't worth the trouble.

[annabanana]

5. curious

When I went to "rate" it, I had to hit refresh twice for my vote to be added to the count. How much of a lag should there be between my vote and it's accounting?

[dArKeR]

7. There is no refresh, it's instant. I don't know how they've got it pgmed

but it's diff than the previous rating system of 1 to 5. Before it actually went back to their server and did its stuff and came back. Now, it's instant.

[punpirate]

6. I'm not sure I understand the significance of...

... one star and 275 votes. Are you saying that the moment the story appears, there's always one star with that number of votes, or does it always default to that when the page is brought up, or is this what the story shows when it goes off the main news page, or what?

The Yahoo ratings would seem to me to be time dependent. They must eventually go higher than 275 votes with time, or show fewer votes at some time.

Cheers.

[dArKeR]

8. The totals are diff but the result is the same. Lately, One Star ratings

on bad news from Iraq. Then over time it might change to 1.5 stars.