When I checked yahoo news "most popular" this morning the Bush Impeachment story had over 1,500 votes (4 stars). Less than 5 minutes later I looked at the same story and over 1,500 votes had been removed !!! The Bush Impeachment story went from spot #9 or #10 on the `most recommended` list to spot #13 and then later to spot #15. Yahoo news is trying to bury this story ! Read the story and see my screen shots If you like this story please vote for it on Digg or whatever else you use ! Here are the screen shots : 5:54 am (full screen) 5:57 am (full screen)
Yahoo has now "fixed" this "bug". I wonder if this had anything to do with user complaints, including mine. 8:45am CST (full screen) I know how databases work and I'm very sure this was done on purpose. If there would have been no public complaints I bet my bottom dollar that the votes would have remain "adjusted".
As britishguy so rightly pointed out they do it all the time, they are so utterly controlled that they try and suppress certain things. Of course they have way more control when it comes to the TV but they try there best to keep things away from the sheeple on the internet, but thankfully people are slowly but surely starting to wake up to the manipulation.
Not even an image as proof can sway even the most mainstream controlled minds. You are so brainwashed that you cant even accept that you may be wrong and might need to reconsider.
Have you ever thought it could be a bug? (you cant even accept that you may be wrong and might need to reconsider) Yahoo reports a bug (they own the site) You instead make an "accusation" & "conspiracy theory" hardly convincing hard proof
I've been following this all day. The story was never on the front page of yahoo news, it's not in the politics sections and not on the main page of the most popular section. A bit ago it was 10th place on the `most emailed` list. The story above it had only been emailed 1 more time than the impeachment story. I quickly fired off the story to 10 more addresses using the `email this story` feature. Guess what happened ? The email count went DOWN by 6 instead of up by 10 ! Thanks yahoo. Looks like I got another company to boycott ! I did report this as a bug. Do you really think yahoo is having a bug ? How is it small time web sites like mine can have voting features work perfectly but the major company yahoo just can't seem to get their voting working. Believe what you want. If nothing else this story should be on news.yahoo.com but it's not. Maybe that's a "bug" too.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070706/pl_afp/uspoliticsbush;_ylt=AvYcl8opcll7AVVuFdiDDWeyFz4D 0 VOTES now, the Illuminati at large again!
LOL, refresh the page. Apparently that's a "bug". The count is now up to 2,047 but it's not on the most recommended page. The current `most recommended` story is 4.5 stars with only 75 votes. I go to the most recommended section all the time. I've never seen a story with even 1,000 votes on it much less 2,000 ! Yet news.yahoo.com continues to not report on the story. Thanks yahoo ! The impeachment poll story is not at the _bottom_ of the yahoo news politics section. Guess which story is at the very top ? No bias here. Nothing to see, move along.
Toopac - yep, sure it is a bug I did indeed consider that it may be a bug and I even went to the Yahoo website to check it out but no, it is most certainly not a bug. Stop making lame excuses and face up to reality
The number of times this story has been emailed dropped from 86 -> 80 and now it's dropped down to 67. Thanks yahoo !
Yahoo frequently assigns multiple urls to the same story. Sometimes they are updates from AP or if they post the story to their top stories section or something. To say that yahoo goes through stories, manipulating votes and what-not is silly. Remember the old yahoo message boards below each story. They were full of the most racist vitriol ever, and yahoo never policed that (just eventually deleted the message board option). If they didn't police that; certainly they are not going to manipulate how many people are sending stories or whatever. It's a "who cares" statistic.