Posted on 11/05/2007 5:02:49 AM PST by PJ-Comix
WOW! What an wild 24 non-business hours it has been! The Leftwing Blogosphere has ERUPTED in a wild firestorm of obsession about even the fact that the DUmmie FUnnies is a finalist in the 2007 Weblog Awards (vote for the DUmmie FUnnies as FUnniest Blog by clicking HERE). For starters, Head DUmmie Skinner has allowed not just ONE but TWO threads obsessing over the DUmmie FUnnies to go up on the DUmmie "Greatest Page." This is an historical first. Previously you could count the deletion in seconds of any thread/post in DUmmieland mentioning the DUmmie FUnnies in any way whatever. In addition, the leftwing anti-religion (except for Muslims) Sadly No! dedicated two threads to the DUFUs overnight. Throughout the leftwing blogosphere was even more obsession with the DUFUs. Finally just to get an idea of their obsession with the DUFUs, take a look at this Weblog Awards Forum THREAD titled, "You have a hate site nominated as 'Funniest'" which currently runs 10 pages long. If you mock the DUmmies via the EVIL method of exposing their own words using Copy & Paste you're labeled a "Hate Site." They are even equating the DUmmie FUnnies with StormFront. I kid you not. So let us now look at the first of the DUmmie threads where the DUmmies are obsessing in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, thanking the Leftwing Loons for all the free publicity, is in the [brackets]:
Please DU this poll!!! Keep an idiot at FR from winning!
[Please Stop him!!! He is mocking us by exposing our rantings to the public via Copy & Paste!]
That idiot over at FR that does the incredibly unfunny DUmmie FUnnies, (notice the capitalization of DU with FU) is up for some kind of funniest blog award. His main challenger is the Sadly Not blog who apparently isn't even campaigning like this idiot at FR is. The FR fool has been constantly spamming everything he can find to win.
[We can't let him win. So let us defeat ourselves another way by giving the DUmmie FUnnies bigtime exposure by obsessing over it like loons!]
Sooooooooo.......
[...Let's go BERSERK!!!]
Please go vote for the Sadly Not blog as the funniest, regardless of if you even know what Sadly Not is (which I don't and frankly don't care). Just so this moron doesn't win.
[Vote for Sadly No! even though I know nothing about it just to stop the DUmmie FUnnies. And now on to the other obsessive posts...]
I just think it would be fun to bust this winger's balloon.
[By making his blog even more well known than it already is.]
Register, participate, and denounce weblogawards.com for nominating a de facto hate site.
[Just de facto? Sniff and we always wanted to be a FOR REAL hate site.]
Looks like the bigot's entire next few days is going to be spent fending off withering fire from righteous posters at weblogawards.com
[And watching the publicity pour in. Thanx!]
It's called Sadly No! and it seems to be a funny, progressive blog.
[And anti-religion (except for Muslims).]
Wow! We have finally found DUs No1 stalker! Sad. Pathetic. Wrong.
[Right. When you quote the Left exactly, that is what they now call stalking.]
That guy is spending every minute of every day begging for votes over at FR
[I call it "asking." And this thread is begging for votes for a site most have not seen.]
Remember to vote once each 24-hour period.
[Make that once each 24 business hour period. And now to the other DUmmie thread that is on their "Greatest" Page...]
Friends of Andy, Please Check In --- One of his stalkers is trying to defend himself here - he hopes to win a Weblog Award for Funniest Blog. I don't think tormenting a dying man is funny, do you?
[Yeah, I "stalked" Andy by posting the comments by Head DUmmie Skinner and William Rivers Pitt casting aspersions upon his veracity.]
There's something wrong with that site. Who in the credible world would nominate this guy? Even *I* can find the venom that he passes off as humor. Who are these people? People who can't spell google? People who have the reading comprehension of Corningware? Who?
[People who post "Freudenschade" when they try to mean "Schadenfreude."]
went there to vote, and was told that I had already voted in the last 24 hours. I share the computer with my husband but he didn't go there in the last 24 hours. What does this mean?
[Diebold computer. Hee! Hee!]
Running even now from the cruelty he visited upon Andy, pretending to have done nothing, and true to his neoclown creed, deflecting by invoking Skinner & Will Pitt.
[Who brought him to our attention in the first place by casting aspersions upon the veracity of Bev Harris' assistant.]
We need to give this story legs. I suggest we try to spread this to every liberal blog and even regular newspapers.
[Yup! Do that. Hee! Hee!]
I was just hoping enough negative press on this guy would get them to dump his blog from the contest.
[Politically purge that blog that keeps quoting us accurately.]
The idea that anyone could GIVE THIS SCUM AN AWARD just sent me over the cognitive edge.
[Congrats! You're already OVER the cognitive edge.]
I emailed info and links to Crooks and Liars, Huffington Post and several other blogs. Don't know if they will cover it but at least I tried.
[PLEASE! Try harder! Get that PR machine into full gear!]
I don't want that little prick getting any kind of AWARD for his hate site.
[Instead, lets give him TONS of free publicity.]
So, did Will try to hold up the PayPal account? Set up the equivalent of a bounty on contacting Andy? Send fake police to a supporter's home? Really?
[I did all that? News to me. However, if you want, I'll announce that Karl Rove has already been indicted on May 12, 2006. So much for the "reality-based" community who are now bringing lots of PR to the DUmmie FUnnies. Your obsession over the DUFUs has been very helpful in that regard.]
All you have to do is get the reload every extension for firefox and watch the vote tallies for sadly nuts vs. the rest of the sites in the list. They consistently have been getting 2 or more votes every 30 seconds for the last several minutes. While on the other hand DUFU got only a few and no one else in the category was receiving any votes.
There’s no way that many people just started jumping on the bandwagon to vote for them in the kind of numbers it would take to sustain that kind of voting. I don’t care what any of them say, among netizens there isn’t that large of a disparity between people who would vote for either site given the huge controversy and coverage surrounding this.
The only way they can keep widening their lead like this is through vote fraud.
I just voted and I see that they must have figured out how to cheat.
Sadly NUts 45.4%
DUFUs 24.7%
There is no other explanation possible than cheating.
I understand that last year Sorry NUts won with about a third of the total. It makes no rational sense that they’d be so much more popular this year to the tune of nearly half the vote.
Clearly, a total spite vote and/or massive fraud, hardly a real measure of it being a “funny” blog...
Not possible normally.
I'm the guy that wrote the 2007 Weblog Awards voting program. I based it on Pete Holiday's code from last year. Believe me when I tell you, this particular conspiracy theory is bunk. I have a lot of separate points to make, so for clarity I shall number them.1. The instructions on that stupid Web page would work on some online polls, but not on the Weblog Awards.
2. If anyone tried following those instructions on the Weblog Awards, it would not result in a bunch of votes; it would result in one vote and a bunch of failures. (Although if he left it running for over 24 hours, it might in fact result in one vote every 24 hours.)
3. Even if someone found a method to defeat our system and vote multiple times, the gains would be temporary. We have other ways of detecting fraud, and we disqualify all fake votes before certifying the results.
4. There is no evidence that Sadly No's lead is due to fraudulent voting of any sort.
I would ask anyone who has been spreading this rumor to please publish this refutation to the same channels.
Welcome to FR. Your first post. How did you find out about the DUmmie FUnnies, and what brought you here?
Curious.
I’m trying!
Looks like the moonbats are eating extra pizza and drinking more soda in order to keep on clicking.
The vote fraud is palpable.
IBFZ...
You know, it’s long past time for everyone to stop being defensive about that matter of two and a half years ago.
That matter started on April 28, 2005.
The principal character had known since late February, early March—and possibly even as early as December 2004—that he was terminally ill; that there was no hope.
That matter of two and a half years ago was something entirely different. It started rolling down the tracks before it had been well thought-out, and someone on this side by random chance switched the rails, sending the train down a different set of tracks.
Alas, as the primitives most involved in the matter of two and a half years ago have significantly declined since then, to near-certifiable decreptitude and derangement, with every passing day it becomes less and less likely they themselves will ever tell what it really was.....and they are even now in no competent mental state to “explain” it.
There was nothing anyone on this side need feel ashamed of; legitimate questions were asked (but left unanswered).
It’s time to stop being defensive; everybody on this side did good.
I saw a couple other categories with disproportionate numbers of votes. Notably that for Best Blog, where Michelle Malkin is getting creamed by some really vile, tasteless site. Most of the categories are pulling in about 5 to 9 thousand votes, and the voting is more or less even. These categories are pulling in 20,000+ votes. No way there are enough people who care about this stuff to be voting this much legitimately.
Yes, that’s all explained in a subsequent post.
By the way, when that other guy excerpted a paragraph of that same post to show how unfunny I am, he left off the punchline.
This does tend to make jokes less funny. For instance, here’s a joke:
ME: “Knock-knock.”
YOU: “Who’s there?”
[rimshot]
I notice that the same group leading the Andy fundraising drive are now the ones leading the attack on the DUFUs. Some unbiased enterprising reporter out there might want to investigate that fundraising situation since there was NO accountability involved...just like when Bev Harris raised oodles of DUmmie cash with no accountability. Which was why Skinner and Pitt got upset about this in DUmmieland until the PC Police turned them around. Any questioning of that fundraiser automatically made you a HEARTLESS MURDERER.
I get to vote in about another hour.
A cople of FRiends at work are voting for you too.
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