openleft.com — They told her to distance herself from the new pro-peace group J Street, which they said is full of radical leftists who believe in capitulation to the forces of the Arab world who would overrun and destroy Israel. Like most conservative arguments, it is utter nonsense backed up by a political threat.
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infamousatheistJul 1, 2008
I'm f**king baffled at the blindness demonstrated by Zionist apologists. GTFO out of my Congress, traitors.
tangaroaJul 1, 2008
Which brings to mind the question, why isn't Digg flooded with submissions about the gay lobby intimidating Congress into supporting the homosexual agenda? It makes as much sense as all these anti-Israel submissions.
Closed AccountJul 1, 2008
Another AIPAC story buried by the bots. When will digg add a capcha to the buries?
Closed AccountJul 1, 2008
No, the digg count does not change.The best way I know to detect a buried story is to search for a story with the "Include Buried Stories" option on and the search for the same story with the "Include Buried Stories" off. If it shows up with the options on but not off then it's been buried. You may also notice that it just disappears from the upcoming list, although that's not definitive proof. The other thing I've learned about buries is that there is no way to get a count of the buries. Even using the digg API, there is no option that returns a bury count. There is one tool that tries to get around this by watching "digg spy" and capturing the buries as they are briefly reported. First, this is inaccurate because only a certain percentage of activity is reported on digg spy. And second, the people doing the burying are never reported - even by digg spy.Digg claims that this is to prevent online wars, but I have my doubts. Supposedly the bury feature is a way to keep spam off the front page - like say advertising. But the way I have seen it used mostly is to keep articles about the Israel Lobby or Ron Paul from reaching the front page. Recently, there were two identical stories about Ron Paul talking about FISA that appeared at the same time. One mentioned Ron Paul explicitly in its title and had more diggs, but was buried. The other submitter astutely left the words "Ron Paul" out of the title and description, and this story eventually made it to the front page. I consider that proof that there are automated bury bots that are searching for Ron Paul in the title and description.Digg keeps its formula for what makes a story popular or how many bury votes it takes to bury a story secret so that the system cannot be easily manipulated. I have no problem with that. I do think that there should at least be a bury count that is easily visible by the public. I personally don't see why the names of the people that bury an article should be hidden. At the top of my list of changes that digg should make to the bury feature is a capcha to keep bots from burying. A capcha is one of those graphics that shows a sequence of letters and numbers. It's used to verify that a human is actually doing an action, not a bot.You may also hear people mention the term "bury brigades" in referring to organized groups that exist solely to bury stories they don't like. I was thinking of writing an article about this. Oops, I think I just did.
Closed AccountJul 1, 2008
Please show me one time I did that. You are barking up the wrong tree there and you look like an ass doing it.
americangoyJul 1, 2008
J Street is an American organization working for Israel.So is AIPAC.Methods differ, goals do not.
bepartJul 1, 2008
Hi FrankHope have you talked to the Digg team about the abuse?