SCREW THE HUFFINGTON POST!

[JEFF9K]

The Huffington Post is a popular news website that combines breaking news, progressive columns, and the top ten reasons why eating celery can improve your love life.

When you register you can comment on the articles, and if you get past their dubious screening process, your comment will be displayed, where it may be read and ignored, not read, “faved,” or someone may like your comment so much that they “follow” you.

After someone “follows” you, you are asked if you want to “follow” them back. Why the bleep would you want to follow someone just because they followed you? It doesn't make sense. I follow three columnists and get an e-mail every time they post something. Anyone with a moderate following could easily receive hundreds of e-mails a day telling him that his followers have posted something. Ridiculous!

Often, when you don't follow someone back, they get mad and un-follow you, so your followers total that just went up, comes back down.

Now there is a new rule for commenting at Huffington Post - you have to have a Facebook account! No way am I ever joining Facebook! Screw The Huffington Post!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

[ChisolmTrailDem]

1. Their comment threads are about as useless and any other. n/t

[JEFF9K]

3. A notable exception are the excellent comment threads ...

... here at Democratic Underground!

[ChisolmTrailDem]

5. Yeah, well, I was really referring to the comment section on so-called "news" sites. n/t

[Heather MC]

6. Major Disclaimer Alert

[NuclearDem]

8. Stockholm Syndrome.

It happens to the best of us.

[beachbum bob]

28. couldn't agree more.........

[NYC_SKP]

2. They want your Facebook ID now? Fuck them. I stopped posting there in 2007.

Now I won't go there, and I won't post anything here that goes back to them, and I ask people who do to look for the original source.

They are content thieves.

Fuck them.

[jberryhill]

4. Why follow someone who follows you?

Simple...

[MADem]

26. Even simpler!!!

[reddread]

32. nice vintage video, favorite tune

Interesting stage dressing there. Gotta love the countless knobs and switches on Rutherfords axe (presumably a Roland GR500 controller with some mods?)
That ARP 2600 of Tony Banks probably did the actual job.
That single sucked me right into Genesis and quite a lot of very enjoyable music.
thanks!

[NightWatcher]

7. I love HuffPo. It's big news and nip slips all in one place

So I read the Congress is passing a budget and Jennifer Anniston got a haircut.

[11 Bravo]

36. Sure, it's easy to mock the trivial shit. But what about the all-important ...

Miley Cyrus side-boob pics? Where are we supposed to go for those?

(And I wouldn't sign up for Facebook is you held a fucking gun to my head!)

[oldandhappy]

9. yep. As of today I do not go there anymore.

Took them off my desktop. I love DU and am addicted to the toons in the morning. So no problem. No way are my comments going to be posted on FB. And if anyone has their HP posts show up on my FB -- I will unfriend them. No pollution, thank you.

[Skittles]

10. it's the dumbing down caused by Facebook

I really, REALLY respect people when I discover they DO NOT DO FACEBOOK

[Brigid]

14. I don't do FaceBook.

[Skittles]

16. HOWDY gal

I LOVE outliers

[grantcart]

22. Friends don't let friends facebook.

I think it would be a great resource to find people that you lost touch with in high school or in years past if two conditions were met:

1) You could only update it once a year

2) You were limited to 300 word and 5 pictures.

[Skittles]

31. facebook has perverted the meaning of the word FRIEND

when I hear people saying they "unfriended" someone it makes me cringe

[Iggo]

18. Never have. Never will.

[Egalitarian Thug]

20. Literally, my very words. Why would anyone bother going to that cesspool?

Do any of those people know anything at all Arianna Huffington? She's nothing but a parasite, always has been and shows no signs of ever changing.

WTF, did everyone just forget what she was doing and saying in the '90s?

Quit being such fucking suckers, you're supposed to be the ones with a functioning brain.

Edit: That last bit was not directed at you, sorry.

[bbgrunt]

25. me too.

[FrodosPet]

21. Looks like no respect for me then

No big deal. I'm not one of the pretty boys, I am not one of the cool kids in the cool clique, so I am used to it.

On FB, I chat with my friends, post positive affirmations and silly things I find on the net, and read all the hilarious stuff George Takei posts.

If that means I am subject to the derision of others, so be it.

[chillfactor]

11. I post on HP every day....

and I have never needed to set up a Facebook account....

[Ino]

15. I didn't either, until today!

Today I was asked for my Facebook login. Too bad... I don't have one, and never will.

[question everything]

39. Have you tried to post today? (nt)

[mstinamotorcity2]

12. A form of

tracking.

[Archae]

13. Huffer Post has been on my shitlist for years.

They are just about as bad as NewsMax, when it comes to posting news along with just about any and every case of woo.

They are on this list as a result.

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4283

[JaneyVee]

17. So you added a link to the Huffington Post.

[JEFF9K]

33. I thought a link would be useful for anyone who isn't familiar with The Huffington Post. ...

... I aim to please.

[2naSalit]

19. What made me laugh

about the hp was when Stephen Colbert called it "HuffinPuff" and Jon Stewart called it "The Sideboob Gazette". I thought those were the most appropriate other names for that online rag.

[LTR]

23. People still read HuffPo?

I thought the smarter ones would have moved over to TPM by now.

But as moronic as they are, I guess there is a place for trashy lowbrow news on the left as a bit of a gateway drug for low-info voters. The wingnuts already have AM radio, supermarket tabloids and Fox News.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

24. This new protocol of going through facebook has helped me break a habit.

I've habitually read comments and often posted my own thoughts. About 5 years ago when they first linked up with facebook, I unwittingly posted what I thought were anonymous comments about members of my family and their "cold hearts". I got a rude awakening from an obnoxious cousin. That is how I found out I was posting on facebook what I'd written on HuffingtonPost. So I complained to them that there wasn't enough of a warning about this new link and their response was to ban me. After that I registered with another email address and continued to comment. But now I'd be identified as myself and not my husband, which is who I've been portraying since being banned for not wanting to be linked to facebook.

I'm so out of there.

[progressoid]

27. But where will you get your news about the Kardashians?

[JEFF9K]

34. Late night comedy monologues tell us everything we need to know about the Kardashians. ...

... and more.

[a kennedy]

29. "No way am I ever joining Facebook! Screw The Huffington Post! "

I hear ya. I had posted a few times there, and when they changed the format to "having to join facebook", I won't be posting again. Ugh.....

[PasadenaTrudy]

30. I closed my acct there yesterday

I rarely used it anymore and I was not about to re-join FB. I've been off FB for two years now and don't miss it.

[JEFF9K]

35. "Childfree by choice." I like it!

[PasadenaTrudy]

37. Thanks!

Works for me

[question everything]

38. Same here

And I've already noticed a lot fewer comments.

Why is that? Does Ms. Huffington own shares of Facebook?

[Uncle Joe]

40. It sounds like all they want is an echo chamber.

I would get bored under such a scenario.

Thanks for the thread, JEFF.