More suspicious doings from Fox News.
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Posted by: LateForLunch ®

07/11/2023, 16:23:43
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It's merely annoying, but still interesting. My profile in the Openweb-run comments section tracks "likes" for comments. I have posted roughly 6,800 times and had received roughly 12K "likes" from those posts. Today the number of likes suddenly went from 12K to 126. I sent a question to the Openweb company asking what might have happened. I'll let you know how they respond. 

My concern is that the company that provides comments support may have anti-conservative-fanatics working for it who are manipulating (sabotaging) the data-base or features as I described. A greater concern is that this is being done deliberately with Fox ENCOURAGEMENT as part of a shift away from conservatism long-rumored for Fox News.






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Wish you would bring your brilliance to Twitter. It truly is better than any I've seen. News happens now andit appears on Twit first.
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Posted by: DeeDee ®

07/14/2023, 17:42:09
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Shadow banning and shadow censoring are too often used today. Disqus is even worse.
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Posted by: Ihavenoname ®

07/12/2023, 16:40:56
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There should be an investigative report on this by James O'Keefe!






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Hard to say in this case, but so much SB is fully documented.
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Posted by: LateForLunch ®

07/12/2023, 19:23:32
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The "likes" accumulator is nothing of consequence really - I monitor it to amuse myself and nothing more. The numbers went back to normal though I have not heard back from my trouble-report. Maybe it was a glitch and not mischief. I may never know.

It's possible in some cases that people are using admin access authority to do things like mess with people deliberately for the same reason a dog licks its own organs of excretion sometimes - because they can.  I have to believe at least some percentage of deliberate disruptions would be done by individuals rather than as policy or collective collusion. Companies who found something like that would likely not admit it - unless law enforcement or subpoena forced them - they'd simply lie about it to people like us, rather than take a PR hit. 

I'll do some more checking online to see if anyone else has had similar issues with Fox or the Openweb people - hit some discussion sites and let everyone know if there's a possible larger issue. 






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Update on comments section Openweb feature.
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Posted by: LateForLunch ®

07/23/2023, 19:48:47
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The "likes" accumulator was reduced to hundreds, then restored to thousands several times. Each time I sent an inquiry to Openweb about the change. I never got a response from them. The number of likes went from 12,600 to 126, then back to 12,000 minus the 600. Then back to 130. Then back up to 12,000 (without the missing 600 restored). It then went up to 12,100. So somehow at least 500 likes disappeared forever. 

It's interesting, but nothing more than annoying.I wonder if someone is loose in the Openweb organization sewing mischief on their Fox comments section. Wouldn't surprise me if Openweb hired a bunch of anti-conservatives who would do such things randomly if they thought they could get away with it without suffering negative consequences. 







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