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To: CobaltBlue
The poll can be freeped. I just logged off, closed down my browser, cleaned out my cookies and cache, and it let me vote again.

Um, is that what it means to "freep" a poll? I just thought it was a call to freepers to go vote once. Perhaps you meant to say the poll could be DUmmed?

42 posted on 09/22/2006 4:03:09 PM PDT by texten
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To: texten

"Freeping" a poll means voting many times to affect the result or to destroy the validity of the poll. It is one of lessons that Free Republic learned from Mayor Daly the Elder.


66 posted on 09/22/2006 5:19:18 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: texten
Um, is that what it means to "freep" a poll? I just thought it was a call to freepers to go vote once.

I think their is a misuse of the term here, too. Freeping a poll has never meant cheating on a poll. It is a just a term for notifying everyone here so they can vote en masse on a poll.

135 posted on 09/22/2006 11:04:54 PM PDT by Elyse
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To: texten; Doctor Stochastic

I agree with the good doctor's definition, "freeping" an online poll means voting early and often.

Thus, the validity of online polls is always iffy.

I've participated in quite a few freeping sessions, myself, and learned how from the pros, but never freeped a Free Republic poll, no idea how that would be received by the management but I doubt favorably.


217 posted on 09/23/2006 8:42:56 PM PDT by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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