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We've got lots to be thankful for from the month of November -- you guys and all your "Wacky smacking" reaped a whirlwind of successes!!  Let's check some stats, shall we?JSDotd 26 videos smacked down in November for a total of 186  since May 1. A SMACKDOWN percent of 86.7%Gnat Masterson  74 of 105 gnats/ratts/snakes = 71% Smacked Down SIT – 25 videos and one suspension!We had 229 individual videos smacked down! (still counting)DoTheDhue  and theThe Pajamahideen Wacky Smacker’s – on the first round we had 100% success!!November 2008 Results: 50 Suspensions 1516 videos were removed from YouTube: (large bombs...

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Welcome to the November thread (finally!!) Thank you all for being so patient with us - our main organizing force had a little mini-vacation right at the end of October and was unavailable for reporting...and add to that the "excitement" that we've had with the hirabists uploading as many anti-Semitic videos as they can and it's been a little crazy around the Smackdown crew!  First I'd like to say that you guys are the absolute best of the best, and I (and the rest of the group) appreciate your help more than you know.  I know a few of you...

Happy October!We've had quite a fantastic September despite a computer crash in the Smackdown Crew and a database crash here at FR!  We continued the gnat smackage on the weekends, and again, had good success....A few notes of interest:jSDotd knocked down 29 videos in September and has reached a total of 131 since May first with a total SMACKDOWN percentage of 85.6%!  w00t!!And we'd like to specially mention a couple of our behind-the-scenes supporters:Vintage Electronics who regularly contributes leads including brahimmec (662)http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=AhDoodieClaire has 1089 active videos listed in her playlists currently - a VERY easy way to log in to...

Well, so, there's been this database outage and I know John Robinson is working really hard to fix it...but in the meantime we can't find our thread.  So, hopefully this will be a temporary thread until the other one comes back -- or -- we could be here for the remainder of the month.  We'll see what makes the most sense when everything is back running smoothly.  As always, here's a shout out to all our Smackdown friends working with us - we make a heck of a team! YouTube Smackdown jihadiSMACKDOWNofthedaySTOP INTERNET TERRORISTSI Will Not Submit!SMACKDOWN TerrorKane Kaizer's LegionnairesMablung's YouTube...

We're finally here with the August totals!  w00t!  Thanks for your patience - one computer crash can sure drive ya nuts huh?  YouTube has still been reticent to enforce their policiesbut we have not let it deter us from our mission.  In August, we began going after "gnats" on the weekend - those pesky little hirabists who only have a few videos on their channels, and we were VERY successful with them -- out of 117 we went after, we got 88 down!  That's 75%!!   A couple other statistics of interest... jSDotd knocked down 29 videos in August.  Has reached...

Well, what can I say... it seems that You Tube doesn't really believe their own press....  I'd like to remind us all of YouTube's policy enforcement -- in their own words...  General Policy Enforcement Information How do we implement YouTube's content policies?The standard of behavior we expect of YouTube users is set out in our Community Guidelines. If a user posts a video or otherwise behaves on the site contrary to these Guidelines, we will generally remove the offending material, and apply a Community Guidelines warning strike against the account of the poster. These strikes stick with the accounts belonging...

I thought that May was incredible (and it was!) but June was every bit as successful of a mission.  We flew our Smackdown bomber for 30 days and had some extremely accurate take-downs!   (Thank you once again for the  Bomber pic, alfa6!)  It does my American heart good to know that we are not sitting back and letting these hirabis own YouTube without opposition.  Thank you so much!!!   I know you guys are going to be as excited about these results as I am...so here goes!June 2008 Results:43 Suspensions With those 43 suspensions, 1282 videos were removed from YouTube: (large...

 May was another terrific month for smacking down the terrorist wannabe's on YouTube.  Thanks to a little publicity from Sen. Joe (yes there IS a Democrat who has a brain) Lieberman and a lot of stick-to-it-iveness by you all , we had a lot of traction and nailed a lot of these jerks.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!! Our Smackdown Bomber flew for the entire month of May -- that's 31 days.  (Thanks for the great Bomber pic, alfa6!)  The "Smackdowns" are removal of specific videos and the "Suspensions" are the removal of users -- a suspension can result...

I just want to say that you guys are awesome!  We had a GREAT month in April - and I'm here to give you the full results.... Our Smackdown Bomber flew from April 12 thru 30 -- that's a total of 18 days for those of you in Rio Linda.  (Thanks for the great Bomber pic, alfa6!)  The "Smackdowns" are removal of specific videos and the "Suspensions" are the removal of users -- a suspension can result in many, many terrorist videos being taken down as most users have more than one video posted.  So without further ado...April 12 - 30,...

So you think you're too old, too fat, too something to do anything against the terrorists?  I've got news for you...  if you'll give me 10 minutes out of your day, every day, I can show you how you can really make a difference.... Here's the deal... Terrorists post snuff videos, sniper videos, calls for jihad and all manner of nasty stuff on the internet in order to lure more young skulls full of mush into working for or with them.  A lot of these videos are hosted at YouTube, of all places.  YouTube's policy is that they will only...