we most definitely pulled ahead...
Posted on 02/19/2017 7:12:27 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
The Finger Lakes Times got "freeped" last week…
Late Monday afternoon, as always, we put up our online poll question for last week: What kind of grade would you give Donald Trump for the job he's done in his first few weeks as president?
The answers were A, B, C, D and F. Simple enough, right?
A normal poll for us usually draws 200-300 votes; a really heavily trafficked one about a hot local issue might pull in 400-500. We noticed right away. So did our readers.
Managing Editor Chuck Schading, who administers our website, did some research and learned that we had been "freeped."
Our poll had been up less than half an hour when someone alerted the freepers at Free …and quickly it was linked to that site with a call to all its fans to "FREEP THIS POLL ... hit it hard folks!"
Despite all the early "A" votes for our president, by Friday, as I write this, the "F's" have not only caught up but gone ahead.
We learned later … that our poll also had made its way out on Facebook, and votes were pouring in from hundreds of folks who are decidedly not Trump fans. To wit, a comment from a reader…: "I received an e mail telling me about this poll. It instructed me to vote 'F.'”
I can't forecast what will happen … today, after which we'll take the poll down, but as of noon Saturday, here are the … poll results:
A -1,584 votes
B -197 votes
C -39 votes
D -85 votes
F -1,697 votes
And to all... of you -freepers and otherwise -who took the time to visit our website and cast a vote: Thank you.
(Excerpt) Read more at fltimes.com ...
Sounds a little to me like he's encouraging us to put Trump's A grade over the top. ;-)
Learn it. Live it. Love it.
Upstate Freepin Ping
They just want hits!
The A’s are ahead by about 500 at this time
I just voted ‘A’ but I don’t think it registered.
It doesn’t really matter how they game their poll...they know what’s up and this childish article is proof of it.
I had no idea we were a white supremacist group until I read their comments.
It is really a mistake to even visit that site at all, IMO.
Hey now, the A’s are way ahead as of this post.
Can’t wait for the update to the story... HAHA!
I did also. I did not see any results. I think that the results only register when an “f” is voted.
Sounds a little to me like he’s encouraging us to put Trump’s A grade over the top. ;-)
Then why won’t they remove that stupid comment at the top that is calling Free Republic a “White Nationalist website”?
That is beyond slander and it’s absolutely disgusting.
First if we can Freep a poll then the opposition websites can do the same. Why wasn't that acknowledged?
Second, if you take the grades B and D by throwing out the top and bottom numbers, you have a close approximation of the 300 votes they expected to see in a "normal" poll.
Third, Polls have a really poor track record recently for reflecting accurate public opinion.
He quotes that comment in the full version of his editorial.
10:30 Sunday morning (est)
2,411 A
260 B
47 C
95 D
2,097 F
After checking the site and reading some comments, “buck” says FREEREPUBLIC is a white racist website ... imagine that - we’re a white racist website; never would have thought that ...
we most definitely pulled ahead...
I didn’t know we were white supremacists either!
Boy will our black members be surprised to find that out!
The results seem rather polarized. The majority of voters before the freep were clearly leftists wanting to confirm amongst themselves how deep their hate is.
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