A Way for Skinner to check for unrec trolls

[Liberation Angel]

It is fairly obvious to me that the unrec feature will be a magnet for freeper trolls who want to disrupt here and keep important stories off the front page and off the greatest page.

Since most folks really only recommend the very best threads there is a certain amount of self control by most folks here (in my limited experience).

Certain subjects (like nuclear power, for example) will bring out the pronuke procorporate propagandists who will defend the indstry til the cows come home.

Whether or not these are rank and file DUers or corporate operatives will be difficult to tell, but there will certainly be the potential for them to organize because the nuke industry has very sophisticated PR operations (I know because I have been engaged with them off and on for many years because I have worked as an antinuke activist and been engaged in NRC hearings and litigation)

So at first blush one can see right away that any thread on this subject will immediately attract a substantial number of unrecs at first to keep it off the greatest page and make it impossible for it to get there.

Ultimately the rec/unrec feature is a poll which can be manipulated by the far right.

But one way to observe this MAY be to watch WHO unrecs certain topics and sends them into the far negative numbers (they will use some restrain, perhaps, and wait for a plus 1 or 2, before pouncing again, but theyt will KEE these subjects off the greatest page at all costs).

By watching WHO does this Skinner et al will know who may be gaming the system and will perhaps begin to understand why the "unrec" feature is so dangerous to DU.

But, frankly, after reading that Rahm and Axelrod were pronuke lobbyists I guess my position desn't have much of a prayer here.

But especially with this new feature any posts opposing nukes will surely die without making it to the greatest page.