freep, freeping

[Clai Rice]

Just ran across this word and don't see it in the ADS
archives: to freep, freeped, freeping. Also freepers.

Looks like it means "to influence online polls by voting
many times" or an organized attempt to do such. An article
from the June 4, 2004 Grand Forks Herald, "Online activists
defend freeping's ethics", says that the practice is named
after the FreeRepublic.com whose members have been
practicing this for some time.
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/8834070.htm

I hope it is either bad polling (or freeping if this is
based off their internet poll) but it has me a bit concerned.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2004/10/16/91159/845

--Clai Rice