It happened to me and a bunch of other people recently, all Obama supporters, by the way. One possibility we arrived at in our speculations is that if a diary you recommended is pulled from the rec list by a moderator, your rec and rate priviliges are removed.
Interestingly, the day it happened to me and my cohort, the rec list went from almost all pro-Obama diaries to all pro Clinton and/or anti-Obama diaries. I don't think it's remotely paranoid to think that this is being used to control the rec list. It fits the data.
Exactly.
Couldn't be more confident that Obama will win EVERYWHERE.
Who needs healthcare? Nobody.
(just kidding)
I am a little relieved that I am not the only Obama supporter that lost his rec privs
Oh no, by no means. Supporting the nominee is a punishable offense.
Lost mine here also! So now, I'm not surprised, seeing it seems to be one-sided.
Lost mine too, don't know why.
I find it odd that a site that espouses 'direct democracy' and political involvement would take such undemocratic measures in rigging the story elections. It says a lot about the site founder.
OOOoooops. I'll probably lose posting privileges for that one.
Never been able to rec or mojo anyone since. I assumed Jerome did it personally.
The anti-Obama rec list diaries are still dominated in the comments by Obama supporters. It's obvious there's a rating ability disparity, or maybe the hillaryis44 and noquarter crowd is just that good at sending their drones over to rec their shit up.
hillary supporters recommending all pro-hillary diaries here. you could see glimpses of their strategy early on. not that there's anything wrong with that.
i've never detected a similar strategy here, and i generally don't rec diaries or comments -- which is why i asked the question in the first place.
i do think that it's really important to recognize the two different phenomenons, though. the strategy of the hillary people here is very top-down, very disciplined -- which would have been great in 1996. the strategy of the barack people here has been very self-organized.
what we see here mirrors what we see on the ground. that's sort of interesting. no drones needed...
Wow, this makes a lot of sense -- it happened to me, too. It's kinda sickening, actually. All of a sudden Pro-Obama diaries were making it onto the rec list. Then they rounded up the 'culprits' and shut it down to give Alegre back her spot as Queen.
