Do you think Yahoo "evens out" the thumbs down/up on controversial questions?

Question

Haven't you ever noticed (regardless of party affiliation) that when the number of thumbs up/down gets to be more than 5, it seems like they are programmed to read the same, and even change to even out right after you click your vote?

Answer 1

The people who post here, either questions or answers, are split roughly half and half.  So any comment, liberal or conservative, gets about an equal number of thumbs-up or thumbs-down, and if it's strong enough it has about the same chance of getting reported, fairly or not.

BUT consider that these people who really care passionately about politics, on one side or the other, are only about half of Americans, or less!  There is another 50% (or more) of Americans who don't get involved, who don't post in the Internet or argue around the water cooler. And they don't participate here.

And THOSE people, a lot of them will vote for change this year.

Answer 2

I only give thumbs down when the answer is derogatory, inflammatory or stupid, not because a I disagree. Everyone has the right to their opinion. I wish we were allowed to give thumbs down to questions instead of answers.

Answer 3

I think there are three departments at work here.

One works for the offices of Rove, one for an organization called Rendon, and another that comprised of Yahoo techies. The gov boys rummage through the posts, tracking certain participants and work to balance out the dialogue in favor of Obama fear, never question Bush, Reagan was god and money over humanity. The Rendon guys literally pay a bunch of out of work twenty and thirty somethings to pose questions that are constantly insanely juvenile, the jist of which is that Obama is a racist, Bush is never really wrong and money belongs only to the wealthy. All opinions to the contrary are predictably ridiculed and thumbed down. But a balance, as you say exists...

The participants of this experiment are like mice in a box.

Yahoo Q&A is a micrososm of the massive media spying advertising and corporate public surveillance program that is firmly in place in our lives. I love to watch and comment. I feel utterly unenslaved by it, but completely aware of it.

I don't really care what either Yahoo, Rove, Rendon or the other participants think of my input. I take that as seriously as the stupid point system and the thumbs.

I make typos, but I try to write in a fashion that requires an intelligence to read it, on the theory that the evilest of all these players, the spies and operatives, cannot follow long sentences.

Using this technique I often get them to reveal wonderful things about the propaganda they are involved in decimating and managing.

Happy 1984 everyone.

Answer 4

Somewhat. Not sure I understand.

Answer 5

I'm gonna need your address so i know where to send the aluminum foil for your hat.

Answer 6

Yes long time ago.  

Answer 7

Nope.  Never noticed that.  Of course, I just usually vote TD for the really STUPID posters.  And of course the TU for very thought provoking answers, regardless of party.

Answer 8

I wouldn't be surprised. Yahoo is notorious for censorship. For some reason they are afraid of healthy expressions of opinion.

Answer 9

No but I've noticed what you mean.  I think it's just a statistical  example of how evenly split America is.

Answer 10

Do you see conspiracies everywhere?  

Answer 11

Naw, I don't think so Green, but wait I never really noticed an amount connection. AND their is ALOT of censorship on this d**n site, so I wouldn't be surprised if they do stuff like that.