[theora] Theora Petition on YouTube

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Hannes Hauswedell
<theora.list at soulrebel.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> söndag 24 januari 2010 20:30:26 skrev  Daniel Hendrycks:
>> "You can also vote directly at google:"
>> People have already voted. There was one poll and over 12,000 people
>>  voted for Ogg. Then Google saw that and removed the poll. On
>>  petition spot google cant delete a request and silence us, since
>>  they do not own petition spot.
>>
>
> Wow, has this been documented elsewhere?


Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
... other means.

In this case google claimed they heard the message and removed them
because they were utterly drowning out other ideas:

http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2010/01/youtube-20-needs-your-input.html