14 People Have Unrec-ed This Post - What Do I Not Understand Here?

[MannyGoldstein]

As of the time I'm posting this, 14 people have unrec-ed this heartfelt and personal post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7081624&mesg_id=7081624

Yet not a single unrec-er will have the common courtesy to save why.

Why on Earth would anyone do this? What are we dealing with here?

[Demeter]

1. It's a Free Country

or at least, a free website.

Anybody can be a fool. Just look at the GOP.

And as for denial, the US has cornered the market.

Don't take it too hard, Manny. It's November, and it's hell.

I have to say, you are lucky to have made it this far. My business died in 2004. Bush killed it. I started in 2000, was on the verge of breaking even in 18 months, and 9/11 and then the collapse of tourism and the auto industry...held out as long as I could, but when that bastard got another four years, I knew things were not going to improve, and I refused to get any further in debt and folded.

It was heart-breaking, and an expensive lesson in the futility of expecting anything from a GOP, a Bush, and anybody else in power.

[Texasgal]

2. Honestly?

Stop paying so much attention to rec/unrec and just get on with yourself.

There have been 27 posts to that thread, obviously it wasn't ignored.

[Libertas1776]

3. Its +54 right now

[MannyGoldstein]

4. But If You Go To The Top 10 Page and Do The Math, 14 Unrecs

It blows my mind. What kind of people do this?

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. So what?

It's positive 58 right now.

Are you upset that there are people that don't feel that thread is worthy of the greatest page?

Again, so what? People are entitled to their opinions, aren't they?

It's well into the positive side so the majority have spoken. The thread made it to the greatest.

Threads like this make me shake my head in wonderment and amusement.

[bobbolink]

14. You have the right to feel what you feel. Of COURSE it hurts, and you are right to say so,.

Ya gotta love people who legislate what you can feel and think and express.

In the same league as those who will unrec a thread just because....

:hi:

[Me.]

5. How Can You Tell How Many Unrecs A Thread Has?

[MannyGoldstein]

9. If It Makes It To the "Top 10 Lists" Page...

There's a category that gives the recs+unrecs+replies. Knowing that number, along with recs-unrecs (the number found at the post), you can do a little algebra and get the numbers.

I'm a nerd :)

(Of course I'm not a very good nerd anymore, so I screwed the calculations up first time. I think I've corrected them.)

[Me.]

23. Thanks

[Bluebear]

6. 'What are we dealing with here?' - Instructions from headquarters.

Methinks.

[HeresyLives]

7. I'm assuming it's because

your only other choice was McCain/Palin.

[MiniMe]

10. I didn't unrec it, but I think the person is blaming the wrong party

Congress has to write the bill, and Chris Dodd did, and the republicans are blocking it. I'm sure Lieberman would block it too. The President can't do anything unless he has a bill before him to sign. It is a shame that the banks and Wall Street own the congress.

[Techn0Girl]

11. Let me give you a few possible rreasons:

1. The whole "I can't use a debit card for my small business" doesn't ring true. Anyone knows that you can use a debit card with a visa or mc logo anywhere you can use a regular cc card. In fact that's actually written into the merchant agreement.

2. The post isn't very coherent - it rambles on from business credit card woes to personal medical issues and does not focus clearly on what the person is trying to say. I get the OP is having a rough time and she blamed the Obama administration for it. But she rambles on from credit card woes to the arthritis shots she needs for her knees.

3. The post comes across a being a bit whiny and self centered. She is going through a lot of problems . We ALL are through a lot of problems. She blames Obama for some of it . Well - so do I. Welcome to the club. What's new really?

Those are just my thoughts on the post .

[BoneDaddy]

12. Because Democrats are as tribal and loyal

to their individual politicians and party as the republicans are and anything that contradicts their view of the world as they want to be is a threat that must be eliminated in one way or another.

[Cant trust em]

13. Because some people don't think that Obama is all to blame.

If it were just about the poster's woes, then I would understand your complaint more.

Some people don't think that Congress is more at fault, or the republicans.

I'm not too surprised that there are some people who were turned off by that.

[bbinacan]

15. The unrecs came

from people that had a knee jerk reaction to anything critical of Obama.

[branders seine]

16. In all sincerity,

I believe numerous posters here are paid to attack administration and/or DLC critics and defend every decision of the administration or actions of DLCers. They are organized and 100% predictable.


I'm not calling anyone out, just saying what it looks like to me.

[WilliamPitt]

17. Some people are simply assholes.

I strongly recommend flexing your don't-give-a-shit muscles when it comes to rudeness and DU. You'll be happier for the effort.

[itsrobert]

18. Unrec

for crying about 14 people who unrec-ed a post (which I neither rec or unrec). Maybe you have too much time on your hands?

[endless october]

19. i hit rec to make up for it.

hope this helps.

[Kaleva]

20. I don't understand why so many seem to be so hung up on unrecs.

It doesn't do anything to a post other them maybe keep it off the greatest page.

[Canuckistanian]

21. Relax

It's only the Pony-deniers.

[Warren Stupidity]

22. so what?

The thread is controversial so some people don't like it. And there it is on the greatest page anyway - so the consensus view is thumbs up.