The sellout at HuffPo

[ChairmanAgnostic]

I know this issue has been raised before, but now we learn that AOL is canning several hundred people to make room for the HuffPo part of their nitwork.

I was ready to quit HuffPo even before the announced buy out, but somehow, I kept dropping in just for kicks, shits and giggles. Once the announcement was made public, that was the final straw. I went there one time since, by accident, following up Teh Google on the status of Narita Airport in Japan, after their earthquake.

Who has also wiped out HuffPo from their bookmarks and refuses to return?
And, has anyone checked out their volume of hits and visits since AOL raised its ugly head?

[tularetom]

1. The site was a pain in the ass to navigate

Plus it crashed my browser more than once.

I hope the unpaid bloggers who were responsible for whatever success the huff'n'puff post enjoyed are successful in the litigation they are contemplating.

AOL can fuck up a wet dream so I expect to see HP turn into a complete CF>

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. when I was fooling around with bulletin boards,

I made the mistake of signing up for AOL. That lasted 1 month. Every time I logged on, they had me pay for more downloads. Absolutely hated that part. Wrote a scathing letter to the owner. He (or someone from AOL) actually responded. By offering me a small credit for free time on AOL. If anything, that made me even more angry.

HuffPo and AOhell deserve each other.

[hifiguy]

2. HuffPo has deteriorated badly in the last six months

The moderation is a joke, and the number of incredibly hateful and abusive paid trolls has grown geometrically since the first of this year. The trolls never get tombstoned no matter how gross they are, yet if you rationally criticize Obama you're treated like you just took a dump in Arianna's bowl of oatmeal.

I just re-upped at and donated to DU because I just can't deal with it anymore. I still check it out every day for some of the bloggers, but I don't begin to post as much as I used to.

[baldingrockwarlord2]

3. Rarely go to Huffpo

I've always considered Zsa-Zsa, I mean Arianna as a sleeper cell conservative masquerading as a liberal. The fact that she sold out shows me she didn't really care about it to begin with except for growing it to the point of selling it. Uninterested.

[LiberalAndProud]

5. The site was slow slow slow and hardly ever worth the wait.

Never had a bookmark. The occasional excerpt here is enough to satisfy my curiosity.

[highplainsdem]

6. HuffPo is publishing Andrew Breitbart now. This is the Media Matters critique of his

idiot post praising O'Keefe and attacking NPR (I don't want to link directly to it):

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201103110030

HuffPo still has some fine writers, but obviously Breitbart doesn't belong there and this looks like nothing but pandering to the right.

What will Arianna do next? Invite Sarah Palin to blog for HuffPo?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. that kind of makes me smile. Kind of.

That means they spent millions on shit. Now they have to replace some decent opinion and blogging with Breitbart.

Proves that AOL overpaid. Serves them right.