Let's Help Freep—Re-Freep? De-Freep? Freep-Freep?—This Poll

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Flat Head, flat-earth, right?

thatsnotright on January 20, 2011 at 12:20 PM

Bad guys have 59% of the vote.
Blind monkeys engage.

Canuck on January 20, 2011 at 12:21 PM

"Freeping" is really a term best left to the members of Free Republic. You don't want to give them any legitimacy by adopting it.

The practice of stacking online polls is done by countless web communities, and they usually incorporate their own name in their description of said practice. For instance, Farkers call stacking a poll "farking" the poll.

I propose "slogify" for our community!

kitschnsync on January 20, 2011 at 12:24 PM

whistles "Flathead" by the Fratellis as I push NO.

bgk on January 20, 2011 at 12:29 PM

You got sloggered!

Todd on January 20, 2011 at 12:29 PM

I am much more concerned with the fact that the results of an online poll would warrant a big headline. Or really any headline at all.

giffy on January 20, 2011 at 12:32 PM

I like the term "Chihuly", meaning to artificially inflate a poll's results. "Let's Chihuly this poll."

Based on this:
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…

raku on January 20, 2011 at 12:38 PM

51% to 49% after my vote. and I have 5 more computers that I can vote from.

catballou on January 20, 2011 at 12:39 PM

You can vote from your smartphone too.

wisepunk on January 20, 2011 at 12:42 PM

Wow, I was unaware that anyone here read Freerepublic.com, great place if you want to gain insight on what the far far right wing is thinking about current events. But most of what you read are bigoted comments.

Voted No. Were tied at 50%.

PS
Make sure to vote on the next poll (about gun magazine capacity).

Kinison on January 20, 2011 at 12:46 PM

Freeping: Because Online Polls Matter™

w7ngman on January 20, 2011 at 12:48 PM

This comment caught my attention... "Looks like we’ve got the same bunch of Ghouls and Death Worshipers trying to inject their ‘Huffington Post’ taking points into a very serious subject. End of life decisions are a personal matter for families to decide on. Keep the Nannystate out of it!. And for you death worshiping left-wing kooks who want someone else to pay for your demise; might I suggest a firearm as the best method of ending your misery. They are more stylish than a single-edged razor blade and natural gas has gotten to expensive. Drugs are to chancy. You might miscalculate the dosage and just end up having a good time!"

Commenter talks about keeping the "nannystate" out of it yet is clearly for keeping the decision with the state. I just don't get people. I just don't.

Jamie in Pittsburgh on January 20, 2011 at 12:52 PM

Meaningless polls make me want to kill myself.

The Wretched Harmony on January 20, 2011 at 1:21 PM

Done.

Of course the fact that I can vote in the poll at all completely invalidates any shred of credibility it hoped to have. Other than the silly polls Slog has, why would any legitimate newspaper bother with a meaningless open poll like that?

Reverse Polarity on January 20, 2011 at 1:22 PM

I'm dying to get through to vote no - can't seem to connect.

Jaymz on January 20, 2011 at 1:28 PM

By the way, Whitefish and Flathead Lake are beautiful places, and I threatened my kids that I would send them to Flathead Community College just so I could get that school sweatshirt...

Jaymz on January 20, 2011 at 1:34 PM

Jaymz @15, it took me a couple of tries before I got in. The poll is now 45% yes, 55% no.

despicable me on January 20, 2011 at 1:34 PM

Don't want to legitimize freeping, either. PZmyers calls for ppl to pharyngulate the votes, so I say we go over and slog that puppy!

Slog minion, reporting for duty, sir.

BEG on January 20, 2011 at 1:40 PM

44% to 56% now....

BEG on January 20, 2011 at 1:40 PM

@16 -- or exploit the wonders of the internet and buy it directly? http://tinyurl.com/4rvrxfo

BEG on January 20, 2011 at 1:46 PM

Ha ha BEG, oh what a difference us SLOG minions make.

despicable me on January 20, 2011 at 1:47 PM

out-of-area votes

On the Internet?!

Sili on January 20, 2011 at 2:08 PM

Who could doubt the power of a group with the proven ability to dominate the cat lady vote?

Learned Hand on January 20, 2011 at 2:20 PM

Should State Lawmakers Vote to Ban Assisted Suicide?
Total Votes: 2600
Yes
42% (1104)

No
58% (1496)

NaFun on January 20, 2011 at 2:24 PM

Well done, my sweeties, well done.

Dan Savage on January 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM Stranger Staff

Now the headline is going to read "Why Does Homosexual Activist Dan Savage Want to Kill Your Grandmother?"

Catface Meowmers on January 20, 2011 at 2:46 PM

Yes - 40%, No - 60%.

elaineinballard on January 20, 2011 at 3:27 PM

I just cannot for the life of me wrap my brain around these folks. Keep the "nanny state" out of MY guns, religious observances, payment of taxes, vehicle choice and other consumption of crucial natural resources, healthcare, and education. But by all means I should get to decide who YOU can marry (or whether you can choose not to), how you worship (or don't), whether you choose to end your life, whether you choose to have children, who you have sex with, and what YOUR kids are taught in school. What the hell? Can they really be so dumb as to not see the hypocrisy in this? Yes, yes, I know, they are dumber than dirt, but I feel like I could get a 3-year-old to understand what's wrong with this situation!

Ms. D on January 20, 2011 at 3:32 PM

The one thing that should be inviolably one's own is their life [I thought that was in the Constitution somewhere]. If one has no say over one's death, one is no longer sovereign over one's life.

Ophian on January 20, 2011 at 4:17 PM

Burning question: Are we minions or blind monkeys? I want to be accurate about this on my C.V.

BEG on January 20, 2011 at 4:40 PM

BEG, at the risk of angering those who don't wish to be spoken for, I would submit that we are Blind Monkeys. If the always fabulous Wizard of Oz reference weren't enough, minions suggests orc-like creatures, not awesome winged beasties. In my most humble opinion.

Canuck on January 20, 2011 at 4:47 PM

73% no!

very bad homo on January 20, 2011 at 5:14 PM

Let's agree with Dan that we're actually flying monkeys, not blind ones. Maybe he'll give us matching jackets and caps...

gloomy gus on January 20, 2011 at 5:50 PM

Now up to 76% no. Go us.

Brett Alan on January 20, 2011 at 5:52 PM

i want to point out that pzmyers has just termed this "savaging" the poll :) http://tinyurl.com/4p4qsgp

BEG on January 20, 2011 at 5:58 PM

BEG, Canuck and gus, while I am partial to "minions" for obvious reasons, I digress and will go with the flow on this one.

despicable me on January 20, 2011 at 9:41 PM

82%! woo!!

Rach3l on January 20, 2011 at 10:03 PM

Oh, okay, *flying* monkey, if you want to be all accurate and shit...geez. I personally liked the "blind" monkey angle, since we would be the only ones who even knew what that meant, but that's probably because I didn't join enough clubs with secret handshakes as a kid. I defer to gus in all matters but thongs, anyway.

Canuck on January 20, 2011 at 10:09 PM

84% NO... that is outstanding

chaya760 on January 21, 2011 at 2:19 AM

@16 It's actually Flathead Valley Community College and the sweatshirts are available online. Just FYI :) And yes, a beautiful place and surprisingly good schools, and the purple state politics always keep things interesting (medical marijuana, FTW, but *not* a good place to be openly gay). I personally liked the previous poll about whether state lawmakers should be allowed to carry concealed weapons to the state capitol. That should make for some interesting debates. lol

Leaning Westward on January 21, 2011 at 12:10 PM

I sent this post off to PZ Myers at Pharyngula; either he read the email or saw it on his own. The Pharyngulites are famous for slamming the living shit out of online polls, especially those posted by drooling fundie idiots.

He titled his post, BTW, "How About Savaging This Poll?"

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/…

warreno on January 21, 2011 at 2:34 PM

@41 great minds, etc etc (see @35 :D )

BEG on January 21, 2011 at 6:24 PM

Dan, you've been Pharyngulated.

MichelleZB on January 21, 2011 at 7:43 PM

I'm from Eureka, love you Dan and laughing to see Kalispell on Slog. My grandmother died in hospice in Eureka last year (after a week in the hospital in Kalispell) and she told us herself that she'd rather we take her out back and shoot her than let her live in a nursing home on a feeding tube. All this from a Bill O'reilly lover.

bodhirungus on January 22, 2011 at 10:47 AM

@44: I don't think there are many people who don't want themselves and their family members to be in control of their end-of-life decisions. What it is, is they don't want "the others" to be able to make those decisions, because "they" are full of selfishness, laziness and short-sightedness, and so would make the decisions for the wrong reasons.

Canadian Nurse on January 23, 2011 at 9:02 AM

Discussion in those comments (and thumbs up/down thereon) reveal western Montana to be very liberal on this subject, which is pretty interesting.

By the way, when "pro-life" politics get involved with end of life care, I always wonder why they are so silent (or actually pro-death) when it comes to war.

razorclammer on January 23, 2011 at 3:00 PM

84% for "NO." It always works this way: We can always outrun them in the polls. We seem, in fact, to outnumber them. So why do politicians pay so much attention to these people? Is it just about money?

Sandiai on January 23, 2011 at 8:11 PM

@47 Not all questions of legal/medical ethics should be solved by popular vote, especially where you're legalizing ending someone's life. It's a touchy subject, and demonizing or identifying how minor the minority opinion is cannot help the majority's case. In the end, the right law will be in place because it is right, not because opinion has shifted that way.

razorclammer on January 23, 2011 at 9:32 PM

48.
"Not all questions of legal/medical ethics should be solved by popular vote, especially where you're legalizing ending someone's life"

True. For what it's worth: I didn't actually say that it should.

"It's a touchy subject, and demonizing or identifying how minor the minority opinion is cannot help the majority's case"

Sure. But of course I wasn't doing any of that. Just simply marveling at their oddly huge influence compared to their numbers. Identifying such dishonesties or discrepencies WILL probably help the honest majority. Why would it not?

"In the end, the right law will be in place because it is right, not because opinion has shifted that way"

Right. And I am quite happy that the judiciary can countermand popular sentiment if people's rights are being trampled; but, I wasn't saying anything about that, pro or con, in my post.

Sandiai on January 24, 2011 at 2:19 AM

Flying Monkeys, according to the interview Dan did with the Kinsey Institute. I like "Legion of Flying Monkeys" myself, or perhaps "Flying Monkey Army" (that second one might be straight from WoO, can't remember).

John Horstman on January 24, 2011 at 8:42 AM

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