TIA Project to End

Marnhinn writes "MSNBC is reporting that the Terrorism Spying Project (also known as TIA) is dead. The government is cancelling most of the project and changing the rest to focus on people outside the United States." TIA had been on death's door for a while, but now it's finally official. Some of the programs will still be around, however, they will just be shifted over to different departments.

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Re:ALERT: Moderation abuse by the editors

[jrumney]

I find it quite amusing myself. For all their talk about Free Speech, Americans sure like to suppress voices they don't approve of. OK, my post was a little flamebaity, especially given Americans well known lack of ability to laugh at themselves. I don't mind that it gets modded down, but something is seriously screwed with the modding of this post.

The post went in with a score of 2 originally, the Karma bonus disappeared within 5 minutes. The moderation summary was always dodgy, and consistently adds up to 80%. When I first checked back, it looked like this:

Moderation: -1
40% Flamebait
20% Funny
20% Insightful

Hmmm, shouldn't they cancel each other out and add up to 0? Next time I looked it was:

Moderation: -2
30% Flamebait
30% Overrated
20% Insightful

The Funny gets replaced by an Overrated, and the proportions are adjusted to levels that don't look like they'd happen naturally unless someone had been fiddling.

And now, after the editorial abuse is exposed, the percentages are exactly the same, but the score has gone back up a point.

I wish the editors could tell us WTF is going on here. Has someone been screwing with the moderation points behind the scene, or is this a bug?