Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments Chuck E. Cheese Meets Huffington Post Isn’t it a bit intimidating to see “HUFFPOST COMMUNITY MODERATOR” in big font above comments? And the user’s name you have to search for. It’s like seeing armed guards inside your regular supermarket, “It’s okay, I’m just another shopper like you.” Any bets on how long this will last in its current form at HP? » Posted By AdLib On April 29, 2010 @ 5:33 pm I agree, there is a kinship between Arianna and Palin, they share the same opportunism and lack of concrete principles. And as you say, a voice that only a masochist could love. » Posted By AdLib On April 29, 2010 @ 5:29 pm Someone just posted this at HP: » Posted By AdLib On April 29, 2010 @ 5:10 pm I hear they’re hosting HP Blogging Parties there now! You get to blog wearing your HP Arianna Crown and get in fights with right wingers over what kind of pizza to order. » Posted By AdLib On April 29, 2010 @ 5:01 pm I still am! Giant rat! AAAAH!!! » Posted By AdLib On April 29, 2010 @ 4:59 pm A total coincidence but I couldn’t resist. I could have used a quote from another movie I suppose: “The horror. The horror.” » Posted By AdLib On April 29, 2010 @ 4:59 pm I check in there to see what stories they’re covering but I just can’t bring myself to post anything there anymore. There are some very clever and thoughtful people there but I’m kind of burnt out on the shallowness and conflict that the format over there encourages. Then, as KQ mentioned, there are the cliques and group think. So, it’s a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there. » Posted By AdLib On April 29, 2010 @ 4:55 pm I think the concept of the community moderating itself is great. That is how we’re set up at The Planet. If enough people click the “Report this comment” on a comment, the comment will be sent to moderation. HP could have done the same thing but chose not to. Instead, they thought how clever they would be to connect it with classes and badges to integrate their Chuck E. Cheese mentality into it and turned it into a huge, nasty mess. They could have done this the smart and simple way. They instead tried to use it to leverage behavior and addiction to the site. Fail. Fail. Fail. » Posted By AdLib On April 29, 2010 @ 4:51 pm Many good points, V. The only point I disagree with is atrophy, if we’re addressing that to the flow of people going there. This type of thing appeals to the lowest common denominator. HP is now the Chuck E. Cheese’s of political blogs and those who like the flashing lights and bells will continue to go there and play in the ball room. Those who have a bit more taste will find a different site (or Planet) to blog at where complete thoughts and discussions can be had with other people of substance. » Posted By AdLib On April 29, 2010 @ 4:44 pm Hmm, maybe HP will next give out badges to reflect people’s preferred religion? Or at least, party affiliation and how they voted last election? Again, how can so many there be oblivious to the creep of the site into the offensive thing it has become? » Posted By AdLib On April 29, 2010 @ 4:40 pm I and others sent suggestions to HP that the community should help moderate comments, that’s a good idea I think. If flagging automatically removed comments, that’s one way it could be done. The other way would be to recruit a few trusted and liked members as Emergency Mods, if no Mod was around, they could send an abusive blogger into moderation. By hanging Sheriff “badges” on people, you turn them into authority figures and that’s unfair both to the members and the membership. Fail, indeed. » Posted By AdLib On April 29, 2010 @ 4:38 pm I do think it will stifle expression over there even more and make people treat “Community Moderators” differently, as authorities which can be good and bad for them. I wonder if they have a badge with the Titanic on it? » Posted By AdLib On April 29, 2010 @ 4:34 pm This is just the beginning. Remember Lord of the Flies? It’s going to be like that but with badges. » Posted By AdLib On April 29, 2010 @ 4:32 pm It’s like calling out the Empress on her alleged New Clothes. I keep saying to myself when I visit there, “Is it me or is this site an insane mess?” Yet, the people keep coming back to build up their “fan” numbers and argue with racist trolls. I just don’t get it. » Posted By AdLib On April 29, 2010 @ 4:31 pm Because he’s in Arianna’s Secret Best Friends club. You should see their badges! They have dragons on them and the eyes light up! » Posted By AdLib On April 29, 2010 @ 4:28 pm Now, if we could just find a Cloak of Invisibility and make her and her site just disappear! » Posted By AdLib On April 29, 2010 @ 4:26 pm Okay. You’re PlanetPOV Milk Monitor! » Posted By AdLib On April 29, 2010 @ 4:24 pm So true! As Patsy’s documenting, they have really focused on school boards, city councils, etc. Locally, they can steamroll unaware citizens. The budget crises in states does seem to make people turn on their neighbors, as we’ve seen in AZ. It’s about white people trying to horde what they can away from minorities and this plays into the control game of the RW. There is a bit of Nazism in the concept of preying on the economic insecurities of the public to rally them against those who are less politically powerful, scapegoating them as the ones to blame for all of the public’s woes…as a cynical way to consolidate power. » Posted By AdLib On April 28, 2010 @ 2:33 pm Heh! “Civil Rights? We don’t need no Civil Rights!” Perspective is one of the last things you’ll get from these types. As far as they’re concerned, it was white man’s land just waiting for him to take it away from them heathens. Manifest Destiny. These jerks just want what they want, unrealistic as it is to go back to the 1950’s or 1850’s and white domination. » Posted By AdLib On April 28, 2010 @ 2:21 pm And Now for Something Completely Different Well said, dildenusa and sorry about your health condition. Adding to your Tebaggers’ lack of empathy for others, their alternative to HCR is bartering with chickens or depending…ready?…on the church to help you out. Yes, if you need chemo, a new hip or heart surgery, they want you to go beg for it. And if you don’t belong to or believe in a religion, you better move to Europe. » Posted By AdLib On April 26, 2010 @ 11:09 am “Quit being a downer about my chauvinism, you wimp!” » Posted By AdLib On April 26, 2010 @ 10:31 am Wonderful to have your perspective here to ground discussions about Europe in reality. It is just as silly for Progressives to envision a utopia in Europe as it is for Teabaggers to envision a utopia in America if Republicans were in power and the wealthy were “treated better”. By a white president. I find it most sensible to acknowledge that there are positives and negatives on both sides of the fence. There are those in Europe who are elitists and look down their noses at America while being in denial about their own country’s failings or problems. On the other hand, there are many in Europe who are quite justified in seeing many Americans as small-minded, over-religious fanatics. Only in America, a system that declares a separation of church and state, is it mandatory for presidential nominees to repeatedly declare how religious they are. What would be the odds of a President getting elected nowadays who refused to talk about his religious beliefs, let alone one who was an atheist? Aside from the nature of Christianity being inextricably entangled with our presidential elections, there is the issue of aggressive racism. The U.S. has been continuing a “Cold Civil War”, racism continues to reside in this nation and is still deeply entrenched in the South. We’ve seen the Baggers spewing their racism, Governors thumping the glory of the Confederacy and touting Secession, not to mention the many Republicans in elected office questioning the legitimacy of this black man to be president. That said, prejudice resides in Europe but in a way that seems less aggressive though still pervasive. I find most countries in Europe very provincial, for centuries, each nation maintained pretty homogeneous populations. It is only in the most recent century that they have had to face the disruption of that homogeneity. As with the U.S., I believe that most citizens of most nations are fair minded people who are not prejudiced in hostile ways. There are those types and there are mostly reasonable people into whom some subtle prejudices have snuck their way in, undetected by them. For example, in the U.S., there are good-hearted Christians who don’t hate anyone else but may still have accepted the dogma they’ve been taught since childhood that all Jews are responsible for the death of Christ and that they should be supportive of Jews so they help fulfill the actions required for Jesus to return and The Rapture to come…then not be concerned as they all go to hell as they must. In the UK, there are prejudices against minorities who have come from other countries, many of which the nation obliviously made citizens when they were imperialistic. Little did they consider that when you conquer a country and make it part of your empire, you make the brown and black people who live there citizens under your government. And one day, they may want to move. Add to that the prejudice in the UK when it comes to others who are native to the UK, such as the Irish. At the same time, IMO, the majority in the UK are far more liberal and open minded than people in the US on many fronts including human rights, peace and religion. Move to France and recall the Muslim riots several years ago. France has been perhaps the most aggressive European nation about “preserving its culture”. I love French culture and hope it continues endlessly but the argument to preserve it has also been a cloak under which to hide racism. A big segment of Muslims in France refuse to adopt French Culture and have willingly congregated together in where they live. Meanwhile, some in French society resent Muslims for that reason and eschew them. So, there is a kind of Muslim ghettoism in France and Muslims have been oppressed and harassed there. This is a two way street though, there is prejudice by some Muslims against those of other cultures and religions and an unwillingness to acclimate to one’s new society is not a formula for seeking harmony. Add to that, the experience many Americans have had with waiters in Paris and one can conclusively say that prejudice is alive and well in France too. As with the UK though, I do like France very much and the majority of people I’ve personally met there have been kind and friendly. So, we could go country by country, disassembling the fallacy some have that Europeans are superior to Americans. After all, only America has overcome racial and provincial barriers to elect an African American as their leader. But that doesn’t make America or Americans “better”. There are trade offs with each nation. But I’d happily trade our Teabaggers for some Brit humor or French chefs any day. » Posted By AdLib On April 26, 2010 @ 10:29 am Excellent! He and the Dems in Congress need to keep hammering away on the GOP about this, knock the viability of them taking over government right off the table for voters. » Posted By AdLib On April 26, 2010 @ 6:17 pm And I think the concept of fighting for less regulation on Wall Street is big trouble for them. If I was advising the Dems, I would urge them to stand tough, let the GOP drag it out until the public gets really pissed off at the GOP and they fold to accept tough laws. This could be the straw that breaks the GOP’s back on being The Party of No. As upset as people are with everything else, if the Dems crystallize for the public that the GOP only care about Wall Street and the wealthy getting what they want, November could be a lot more disappointing for them than the Dems. » Posted By AdLib On April 26, 2010 @ 6:04 pm Very well said, KQ. In a few words, you instill reason and a realistic, optimistic path for success. Cool! » Posted By AdLib On April 26, 2010 @ 6:01 pm It was a play on words, on “going out with a bang”. Moyers show was actually hosting the authors of a book about how corporations and the banks have turned our democracy into an oligarchy. They also did a great job in explaining how the Goldman Sachs fraud was done. Does Obama cater to the elite? I wouldn’t go that far, I would say that he has brought them to the table and works with them as well as for those who elected him. I would prefer he works only for we the people but I wouldn’t say that he always places corporate interests above the people’s. I have to disagree with you that Obama is bowing to Wall Street on this reform. Why is WS trying so hard to kill this legislation if it’s good for them? Those who are legitimate about their opposition to corporations controlling our countries and the world should stand together but as the recent poll of the Tebaggers shows, they are not among such people. As I asked in my article, have you heard of one protest outside a bank or corporation by teabaggers? One word of agreement with this Financial reform bill? In fact, one peep out of them on this at all? The teabaggers are a fraud. They are not seeking a revolution to put the country back in the hands of the people, they are a racist Republican front group trying to put the country back into the hands of Republicans, the wealthy, banks and corporations. So, if we really want to focus on joining hands on stopping corporations, reaching out to those frauds would be a waste of time. » Posted By AdLib On April 26, 2010 @ 5:19 pm Thanks KQ! I think the Dems need a full court media press to pummel the GOP over protecting Wall Street by trying to kill a vote. Now is the time to invest a lot of the advertising to cement that reality into the public’s minds. » Posted By AdLib On April 26, 2010 @ 5:10 pm I’ve got a quarter to Spam. » Posted By AdLib On April 26, 2010 @ 5:08 pm Thanks WTS! And all the Willys will be left to sell is McDonalds Value meals. » Posted By AdLib On April 26, 2010 @ 3:52 pm Just saw this in our news widget: Senate probe: Goldman planned to profit from bust By AP Business Writers Marcy Gordon And Alan Zibel, » Posted By AdLib On April 26, 2010 @ 3:45 pmComments Posted By AdLib
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