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- aftern9ne, on 08/12/2008, -15/+180Since when was Huffington Post a news site?
- MakiMaki, on 08/12/2008, -5/+147Huffpo is a content aggregator, it pulls in feeds + summaries from other news sources while only making changes to the title (sometimes). Its kinda similar to automated spam-blogs although huffpo does include original user-generated articles (anyone can sign up to create a post) and they have a group of editors/journalists.
Having said that, I definitely AGREE that huffpo summaries (with 'read more' links to the full story) like this should NOT be dugg up or perhaps even submitted to digg. Huffpo is just an intermediary in this case: their content is not original and the source site should be submitted instead. Huffpo doesn't deserve the traffic, diggs or a frontpage for just aggregating original content IMO. Its lame.
It's also very redundant for a user to click through from digg to huffpo and then have to click AGAIN to read the full story. Users should pay attention, stop submitting Huffpo summaries and click through to submit and digg up the source site. - maxyRO, on 08/12/2008, -5/+70Now that is lame.
- DrVonNugent, on 08/13/2008, -6/+60Ahh the HuffPo spam machine marches on.
For all the ranting and raving about Fox news (and yes I hate it too), it always surprises me that people are so willing to flock to the liberal equivalent. They both engage in questionable journalism, are at times seemingly proud of their political bias, are almost wholly reliant on sensationalism. It's sickening. - NewsFeed, on 08/13/2008, -4/+57Huffington Post has also been violating Digg TOS by publishing simple Youtube videos with no article or story and then submitting to Digg. Basically becoming a middleman and even after them doing it repeated times they never get penalized by Digg.
It seems if your site is in a deal with Digg to have their buttons and bring them more visibility and pageviews then you don't have to follow their rules.
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Slow_Motion_Light ... - AmyVernon, on 08/12/2008, -3/+45I've seen this on many HuffPost stories. As someone pointed out above, they're an aggregator, not a "real" news site. But they shouldn't have a huge Digg button on top of their aggregated stories. That's just wrong.
- XombieRobot, on 08/13/2008, -21/+56Huffington Post = credible news source to whiny liberals who don't fact check. Many digg users are liberals so therefore, you have instant popular "news" stories
- dignews, on 08/12/2008, -6/+38Dont engadget do this all the time??
- sinurgy, on 08/13/2008, -2/+34I'm starting to think a lot of people don't really hate Fox news tactics at all, they just don't like it when those tactics are not used to support their politician of choice. A bunch of hypocrites who are no better than the people they are constantly attacking.
- kolinkoolface2, on 08/13/2008, -11/+42god i ***** hate the huffingtonpost.
- ssquared22, on 08/12/2008, -5/+34Not cool. Not cool at all.
- proliance, on 08/12/2008, -3/+30Finally, something worth reading in HuffPo.
- MCA2142, on 08/13/2008, -6/+34Exactly.
Huffington post only has opinion pieces.
On another note, avoid seeing Arianna Huffington on TV at all costs. There is a valid reason why her and Bill Maher are no longer married. - darkchild82, on 08/12/2008, -4/+30And if you look below the article, why... look at that.. wasn't that a story that was hugely popular on Digg just recently?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/11/brazilian ...
Nice going Huff - ha3er0, on 06/16/2009, -4/+25I hate it when gizmodod / engadget and lifehacker does it.
They will have a five line article and link you to another article of their own.
***** THING SUCKS!!!
Stop doing it!!! - Pillage, on 08/13/2008, -3/+24first thing involving Huffington Post I've ever dugg.
- inactive, on 08/13/2008, -6/+27Calling the Huffingtonpost.com a "news site" is like calling The National Review a news magazine. No site that is so completely biased and narrow in its views can actually offer objective news.
- jamesdew, on 08/13/2008, -1/+20I am a liberal but I hate manipulated news stories even if they are being manipulated in a way to re-enforce my existing beliefs.
- iizh, on 08/13/2008, -9/+28Show your loathing for HuffPo. Digg THIS article.
- inactive, on 08/12/2008, -3/+22Conspiracy, all one big conspiracy.
- djepik, on 08/12/2008, -6/+22Doesn't.
- inactive, on 08/13/2008, -0/+16Doth not.
- inactive, on 08/13/2008, -3/+18Hufflepuff post needs to GTFO.
- mcduck, on 08/13/2008, -1/+16http://digg.com/people/Brazilian_Waxing_One_Brave_ ...
Now lets bury it as spam. - tweedius, on 08/13/2008, -4/+19Almost buried this just because it had Huffington Post in the title.
- joeyGibson, on 08/13/2008, -2/+16Since so many whiny Diggers decided it was a news site, apparently. There are so many links to HuffPo from Digg that I sometimes forget which site I'm on.
- cnot3, on 08/13/2008, -4/+17Dugg for exposing HuffPoo as the complete pile of ***** it is.
- Sfenton, on 08/13/2008, -0/+12From looking at your History MakiMaki, you have submitted many articles from Huffingtonpost.
- lechechocolate, on 08/13/2008, -5/+16No me gusta HuffPo
- HappyScrappy, on 08/13/2008, -0/+11Sensationalism sells (piques interest). That's why HuffPo does it. That's why Digg is full of sensational articles from all kinds of sites.
- HappyScrappy, on 08/13/2008, -0/+10If Digg is supposed to penalize sites for blogspam, then they're really slacking off on doing it. And I don't mean just Huffington Post.
- inactive, on 08/13/2008, -2/+11So Ariana is going down on Caroline. Thats hot.
- groovechamp30, on 08/13/2008, -1/+10Don't is fine if you assume Engadget to be a team or group, i.e. "don't they do this all the time" = "don't engadget do this all the time".
- brock2020, on 08/13/2008, -2/+10I'm proud to say the only time I've ever seen theHuffingtonPost.com was via this screenshot.
- BananaGrabber, on 08/13/2008, -15/+23I hate Huffington Post. I always try to bury them. Then I digg pro-mccain articles simply out of spite.
- ha3er0, on 06/16/2009, -1/+9Which means that huffpo is smooching off the traffic that it's getting from digg, even though they didn't necessarily produce any original content. Just summarized someone else.
- NewsFeed, on 08/13/2008, -3/+11Engadget and Thinkprogress do it all the time too.. Just shows that if your a big enough that banning you would make the blogosphere, then you won't get in trouble for violating TOS.
- inactive, on 08/13/2008, -7/+15What an unholy duo! Huffington Post and Divine Caroline.
- lolwutpear, on 08/13/2008, -6/+13Too bad digging this article won't stop thousands of idiots from digging the Huffington Post every day. We can dream, right?
- kleash, on 08/13/2008, -1/+8This is funny cause they just replaced it with "Buzz Up" now
- jlian, on 08/13/2008, -3/+10You supported it.
- radiofrequency, on 08/13/2008, -6/+13The Huffington Post is a support group for crazy anti-American moonbats. For a site that constantly whines about Bush Administration "crimes" and McCain campaign "lies", it sure does engage in a lot of libel.
- johnleemk, on 08/13/2008, -2/+9HuffPo has an annoying habit of excerpting stories from other blogs and linking to them...but then encouraging readers to digg its own posting, so readers have to click through to the HuffPo story and then from there click through to the real original blog post.
- jnordb, on 08/13/2008, -2/+8In other words....they suck a big, hairy, non Brazilian-waxed, stinky, feces and toilet paper klingon laden butt.
- samyoungguitar, on 08/13/2008, -4/+10***** yes support that *****! Obviously you dudes don't have girlfriends or wives. It's important.
- flashback99, on 08/13/2008, -1/+7it clearly says DivineCaroline.com UNDERNEATH THE HEADLINE. Where did you think the news was going to come from?
- Kythas, on 08/13/2008, -1/+7You just hit the nail squarely on the head.
- sindex, on 08/13/2008, -1/+6When the hell was she married to Bill Maher?
- nymphetamine, on 08/13/2008, -1/+6Does not.
- cnot3, on 08/13/2008, -2/+7Its hard to ignore when every other story on the front page is from that ***** heap.
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