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New Huffington Post account requirements

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PrinceofWands

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You now have to have Facebook in order to comment or participate in HP. Looks like I add yet another site to the boycott list. Very very soon I won't need internet any longer, as there'll no longer be any sites worth going to. Already dropped more than two dozen this year alone.
 
PrinceofWands said:
You now have to have Facebook in order to comment or participate in HP. Looks like I add yet another site to the boycott list. Very very soon I won't need internet any longer, as there'll no longer be any sites worth going to. Already dropped more than two dozen this year alone.
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Why would you want to post on HuffPo anyway?
 
Drako said:
Why would you want to post on HuffPo anyway?
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It amuses me. They interviewed me years ago, and I've kept in touch with a couple people who work with them ever since. Usually just correcting/clarifying misinformation relating to firearm/self-defense pieces, but I also read and comment on random stories sometimes just for fun.
 
rudeguy said:
or any news site?

That's almost as bad as youtube commenters.
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For a while it was part of my job. Had to stay engaged with all news agencies and online aggregates as part of the awareness campaign. I don't see that they're any different from any online commentary (ie AT). It's a chance to exchange information or communication, for good or ill.
 
i hope we never have to use our real names and real pics for avatars here.

otherwise....

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I can't imagine having two dozen accounts to drop from sites like Huffington Post. Are you one of those obsessive serial commenters? 🙂

Public discussion of posted content is probably the single least valuable thing the Internet has produced. If you allow it anonymously you grow a colony of human bacteria. If you run your own account scheme things are only slightly improved, and you gain a world of support woes that have nothing to do with publishing. Attaching posters to an online identity that they value might actually be the last worthwhile thing to try before we are forced to accept that at least 90% of the people on earth should never be heard from in any forum, on any topic.
 
PrinceofWands said:
You now have to have Facebook in order to comment or participate in HP. Looks like I add yet another site to the boycott list. Very very soon I won't need internet any longer, as there'll no longer be any sites worth going to. Already dropped more than two dozen this year alone.
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this pixes me off too, i hate facebook, but i finally actually signed up, only to find my ip addy had been banned there. hp will ban you for the most minor things. youd think tho that they wouldnt want to limit themselves to only peeps who use facebook

theyre trying to get rid of anonymity on the net in general. there are very few places you can sign up for an anonymous email account, most places like yahoo require you cell # now i think, fug dat. and google is doing all dis sheet wif google + at youtube etc...really sux
 
OBLAMA2009 said:
this pixes me off too, i hate facebook, but i finally actually signed up, only to find my ip addy had been banned there. hp will ban you for the most minor things. youd think tho that they wouldnt want to limit themselves to only peeps who use facebook

theyre trying to get rid of anonymity on the net in general. there are very few places you can sign up for an anonymous email account, most places like yahoo require you cell # now i think, fug dat. and google is doing all dis sheet wif google + at youtube etc...really sux
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are you ok?
 
OBLAMA2009 said:
this pixes me off too, i hate facebook, but i finally actually signed up, only to find my ip addy had been banned there. hp will ban you for the most minor things. youd think tho that they wouldnt want to limit themselves to only peeps who use facebook

theyre trying to get rid of anonymity on the net in general. there are very few places you can sign up for an anonymous email account, most places like yahoo require you cell # now i think, fug dat. and google is doing all dis sheet wif google + at youtube etc...really sux
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HP isn't too bad on bans at all. Now DailyKOS...THOSE nazi cunts will exile you for having the wrong color hair.

Requiring FB does nothing to combat anonymity. I don't have an account, but my Ken doll does. That right there should end the debate. Yeah, most companies are now sucking utterly, which is why I don't have FB, G+, Twitter, YouTube, etc any more. They can make all the requirements they want, it will just cost them their base.
 
PrinceofWands said:
HP isn't too bad on bans at all. Now DailyKOS...THOSE nazi cunts will exile you for having the wrong color hair.

Requiring FB does nothing to combat anonymity. I don't have an account, but my Ken doll does. That right there should end the debate. Yeah, most companies are now sucking utterly, which is why I don't have FB, G+, Twitter, YouTube, etc any more. They can make all the requirements they want, it will just cost them their base.
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[Lewis Black]

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Wh...why do you have a Ken doll?

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OBLAMA2009 said:
theyre trying to get rid of anonymity on the net in general. there are very few places you can sign up for an anonymous email account, most places like yahoo require you cell # now i think, fug dat. and google is doing all dis sheet wif google + at youtube etc...really sux
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You don't need to enter your actual number but then again the email address I had with the free ones were active before you needed that.
 
PrinceofWands said:
HP isn't too bad on bans at all. Now DailyKOS...THOSE nazi cunts will exile you for having the wrong color hair.

Requiring FB does nothing to combat anonymity. I don't have an account, but my Ken doll does. That right there should end the debate. Yeah, most companies are now sucking utterly, which is why I don't have FB, G+, Twitter, YouTube, etc any more. They can make all the requirements they want, it will just cost them their base.
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No shit. Dailykos isn't a news site, it's a liberal commentary site so of course they're going to be pro-gun control. Expect the same results if you tried to post in support of gun legislation on the Free Republic. The only difference is that Dailykos appears to be a 10 year old web design and Freep appears to be a 15 year old web design.
 
rockyct said:
No shit. Dailykos isn't a news site, it's a liberal commentary site so of course they're going to be pro-gun control. Expect the same results if you tried to post in support of gun legislation on the Free Republic. The only difference is that Dailykos appears to be a 10 year old web design and Freep appears to be a 15 year old web design.
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Yeah, I just don't get that disposition at all. *shrug* There's no one I want to talk to more than someone who can show me how little I know about a subject I'm interested in. So I don't understand when others aren't the same in this respect. The whole concept of being around people like you are yourself is mind-boggling. If I wanted people like myself I'd just sit here with myself. *boggle*
 
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