Sorry to add to the hubbub, but what is the point of unrec'ing a late breaking news story?

[Flaneur]

Is the unrecommender saying I shouldn' read these stories?


Palin confirms she plans to jump into national politics RamboLiberal Mon Jul-13-09 03:02 AM 25 <0 666

North Korea leader Kim has pancreatic cancer: report undeterred Mon Jul-13-09 02:15 AM 16 <0 478

Al-Qaeda releases Swiss hostage demoleft Sun Jul-12-09 04:14 PM 2 <0 178

Edited for spelling.

[Pirate Smile]

1. I've seen people who don't like it say they are going to unrec everything as their

little protest until Skinner gets rid of it. :shrug:

[Flaneur]

4. Hmm, maybe they're onto something.

I tried to stay out of this. I've never even been to the Greatest page and I never recommend threads. But this whole unrecommend thing just seems kind of churlish.

[Pirate Smile]

20. It seems quite churlish to unrecommend LBN threads because you don't like the unrecommend feature.

[sandnsea]

7. That's my guess

:crazy:

[BlooInBloo]

15. If true, it's ok. The overall vote is what wins, not a small amount of poutrage vote....

That's why I support everybody being able to vote 'yes', 'no', or not vote at all - as each sees fit.

[donheld]

16. Seems like if this is the case

Skinner can tell if people are doing that. Seems to me he could put a stop to that behavior in a hurry.

[11 Bravo]

2. Free Republic hasn't cornered the market on "not understanding the concept"..

The post was about Sarah Palin? Fuck! I dont like Sarah Palin! Unrec!

[EFerrari]

13. Thank you for making me feel less crazy.

There should be a medal for that. :rofl:

[Mrs. Overall]

23. That's my sense. Unrec is being used to express dislike of content, not the value of the story.

[HughMoran]

3. OMG! demoleft was an Al-Qaeda hostage?

Glad they were released - whew!





:)

[Iggo]

5. No. We use the "Hey Flaneur! Don't read this!" button for that.

[followthemoney]

6. This is to make the news we don't like go away.

Chauncey Gardener, when confronted with a knife pulled out his television remote control to make the bad things go away.

This is a grand American tradition.

[Iggo]

9. Except for the fact that it doesn't go away.

[followthemoney]

12. When I close my eyes the invasion of Afghanistan disappears nt

[EFerrari]

8. If you give people the option to be relfexively negative, they'll use it?

[lindisfarne]

10. Because it's a DUPE? Person posting 2nd Kim story didn't even look down 6 posts.I'm annoyed -

Talk about not understanding concepts - could the person really not see something posted an hour earlier?

I responded to the dupe. Now I'll move my response to the first.

Edit: Just added an Unrec to the duplicate. Which will be meaningless once the Mods clean up LBN.

[Forkboy]

11. People need to stop being lazy and look for the good stuff.

It's all still there, right where it's always been. This isn't FM radio where the hits come to you. Look for the good stuff for Christ's sake.

[WillyT]

14. Because We Have Our Own Morans Right Here At DU ???

What do I win???

:P

[obliviously]

17. I thought that was morons! N/T

[HughMoran]

18. No, they're hugh morans!!11!!

It's a Freeper make-fun-of thing...

[WillyT]

19. Not Necessarily...

:shrug:

[EFerrari]

21. Morans is the freeper misspelling for morons. Refs this pic:

There's about 100 words they've horribly misspelled that we use here as jokes.

[obliviously]

24. Thank you! I get it now. N/T

[EFerrari]

25. if you search "freeperism", you'll get lists of really funny stuff.

:hi:

[obliviously]

27. It is funny

when I saw it I thought it had to be deliberate. Who the hell would miss spell moron. Yes they would be capable of miss spelling it.

[2Design]

22. I don't care what palin said, did , or any piece about about her n/t

[Rex]

26. Because the person reading the lbn doesn't think it is late breaking?

Or maybe the news wasn't worthy of the GP. IMO.