Displaying 751 To 780 Of 1,432 Comments Yes, I know how you feel, it’s the same with me. I just saw that you are already on the article that I planned to recommend, so I post that on the top of the thread. » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 8:14 am Thanks – you all provided me with the material, so I could just put together what was on my mind for a while. » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 8:06 am See if I get moderated? Are you kidding me??? I get moderated when I write “LOL” – ok, those are not stuck for 3 hours, but almost everything else…… Yet now, since most of the old posters have left they let us complain and I get a little less stringent treatment. Oh how abusive that environment really is! Argg! » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 8:04 am Exactly. AH is going to find out the hard way that she provided us room, but we provided the life. Since we were abused, we moved out and with us the life force. Sadly, I’m quite sure that she couldn’t care less about that. One year from now the HuffPoo will get a new name, 2 years from now she’ll start another project. Or she’s going to marry Newt or Issa, whatever. » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 7:58 am This was the term that reminded me most of Meghan Stapleton, Sarah Palin’s earlier spokesperson. She too had to made up stuff all of the time and probably was quite aware that it was pure crap. » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 7:52 am In fact, I read her post for the first time now…. 😳 » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 3:28 am Cher wrote a post for us newbies, everything should be there: https://planetpov.com/2011/02/09/tips-for-newcomers-and-regulars-alike/ Tsk, tsk, unbelievable, I just figured out how to get my avi yesterday, and I already forgot where I found the info…. But it’s mentioned in Cher’s post, so don’t worry! » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 2:07 am BlueEyedBull, or you just stay here with us. Here we can just be ourselves and are not riled up against each other on a daily basis. (And are then, once we swallowed the bait sometimes even banned). AOLPost’s comment section has become like ABC’s – I don’t see why I should do that to me. » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 1:54 am And that’s very good. While it goes to AH’s credit that she’s built that excellent commenter’s system which allowed the HuffPost community to grow and expand this doesn’t mean she, or heaven forbid, AOL owns us! Therefore I’m glad that we collectively found the progressive and open-minded place we were really looking for…. » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 1:11 am Zootliberal, you’re most welcome. I had just thought that I had forgotten to thank YOU once more for providing your article! For your work alone allowed me to gather the quintessence from the comments and to reiterate once more what a wonderful place this here really is. Like you, I also was desperate for the past year or so. Huff was dead to me after I read up on Arianna on gawker.com (a site which is also blacklisted by Huff). In case you don’t know her dirty little secrets, type Arianna Huffington in the search box on gawker, read the stuff preferably on an empty stomach). » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 1:06 am Since it is a bit difficult to respond to everybody personally now, I gathered some important points from several posts. AdLib: The truth that she (Stephanie) obscures is that they have indeed blacklisted The Planet’s URL. At the same time, they happily allow links to DrudgeReport, Redstate, etc. So extremist RW sites are fine but don’t post the URL of a Progressive site? And never suggest people there should also get a different Progressive perspective somewhere else. – zootliberal and others: banned for posting the link to here; David Penner: banned without warning – Choicelady: couldn’t get her comments, concerning a progressive faith group, get published without strongly intervening and without the comments being held up for hours. – many of us: perfectly reasonable and fact based comments without insults or ANYTHING that’s going against the official guidelines simply didn’t get published, got deleted or were published, when the thread had moved on already 10-15 pages. This applied increasingly to EVERY thread and led to many of us withdrawing more and more. – General tone of the site: increasingly screeching was encouraged, as opposed to lead meaningful discussions Stephanie the mawd: “complaints against moderators are ALWAYS removed”…… – The big Obama bashing set in from DAY ONE the President was actually in office – Daily the most blatant headlines, tailored to rile us up against Obama, the teabaggers and finally amongst each other, in that order – In spite of our frequent complaints about the blatantly misleading headlines, the avalanche of unwanted Palin and celebrity articles, the forcing facebook and twitter on us, nothing at all ever changed. I for one got never a reply from them, except a stern warning once, when I tried to mobilize people to write emails to reinstate someone’s account. That was called spamming. So remember: trying to have each other’s back is spamming! – Posting about Arianna: nearly only, what is flattering to her, never ever even the slightest criticism. (Therefore most of the time there were very few comments on her threads.) Well, there clearly is a pattern. 🙁 Had our voices not been stifled all this time, we would have understood the extent of all that a long time ago. And I for one am sincerely glad that the AOL thing happened. It clarified things in the wink of an eye and made many of us look for a place, where we can really speak our minds. As luck would have it, some creative minds had already built Planet POV over the years… so let me say here: THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK! Now I’m very happy to see that a lot more (former) Huffers have showed up. I and many others came only last week. A very warm welcome to all those, who joined this weekend. You, the commenters, were the reason why I stayed that long over there. Last but certainly not least I’m very excited to see how everybody is going to bloom here in this atmosphere, where we can freely express ourselves, respect each other and celebrate our diversity. Peace! 🙂 » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 12:24 am Wonderful, zootliberal! I also came by after Cher posted the link to here (early on she could still post it), and had the exact same experience like you once I arrived here. So in the end of the day I am simply grateful that this AOL thing happened! » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 11:29 pm You’re very welcome, teamplayer, and I’m sure you will like it here. No moderation, everybody is respected and so we have room to meet and to bloom. I do hope you’ll become a regular here. » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 10:58 pm Plato, very interesting. I copied this information and compare it against what I read about narcissism. » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 10:52 pm 😆 😆 :lol:!!! » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 10:46 pm Yes, that’s why I’m not eager that any of them show up here. Maybe the good qualities from here would still rub off on them though…. » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 10:35 pm Cyrano! Great you came, most welcome! » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 10:28 pm You can still visit her on HP if you feel the need to encounter her 🙄 » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 7:10 pm They are doing just that, they just cloak it by seemingly answer the mail personally. » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 7:08 pm BDM, 😆 !!! » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 7:06 pm I sincerely don’t miss her. » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 7:00 pm Feistyslug, I haven’t even extended my warm welcome to you and you want to leave already? I hoped you were here to stay…. » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 6:59 pm Feistyslug, that’s why her nickname is Whorianna. » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 6:58 pm Zootliberal, very well done! I’m sure your letter got under her skin if she wants it or not. After all Stephanie is not carrying out her own ideas, but following Arianna’s commands, err, guidelines. For us here it’s of course a great gift that they banned you…. otherwise you may have decided to stay on Huff. » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 6:55 pm A very warm welcome to you, islandleogirl. I entirely agree with your post. It is such a relief to be suddenly able to be oneself! » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 6:49 pm Anyone ever noticed how similar Palin and Arianna are? Both are narcissists, use underlings to get to the top, repress thoroughly opposing views, are extremely spiteful as well as greedy for money and power and have their own hidden “religious” agenda. (gawker.com reveals more about A.H.) » Posted By Truth On February 13, 2011 @ 6:44 pm A Short List of Pres. Obama’s Accomplishments So much for the “argument” that the President hasn’t done a thing for the people! And thankfully there are millions like you who finally got insurance and are now able to get the care they need. » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 3:22 am audadvnc, I hope you stick around for some more time, and are not leaving here thinking that most of us are mindless Obamabots. (I sure am an Obamabot if you will, but certainly not a mindless one.) Take your time, decompress, and let’s see which of the criticism is useful to heal America. I think America is finally moving into the right direction. I mean really, how would you expect things to be if McCain/Palin were at the helm! I shudder when I think of that! See how we can discuss things peacefully here? No need to rile us up against each other to raise the revenue. And, best of all: there is an EDIT button…. (what would I do if it weren’t there, really…) » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 3:14 am Yes, and that’s probably what the bashers can stand the least, hence the constant bashing » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 2:50 am Cher, I couldn’t agree more with you. » Posted By Truth On February 14, 2011 @ 2:46 amComments Posted By Truth
I really can’t stay longer than 15, 20 minutes at a time.
I truly hope you enjoy it here, it takes a while to figure out how everything works, but everybody is very helpful, so this isn’t a problem.
I kept my account on HP only in order to inform friends there about this site, one by one, not too many at a time, in order not to get banned prematurely.
In fact, I believe Palin is Arianna’s secret idol. She watched her closely and saw how she got away with the most outrageous lies and at the same time bolstered her bank account. Arianna helped Palin to stay in the spotlight and used her at the same time to deflect from herself and to make herself look as if she were a competent and truthful person.
Masters in their own right, but unfortunately not abiding by any ethics.
I’m saddened that the brainwashing of the left has worked so well on you. We sure don’t need to be of one opinion on everything (and we SURE aren’t), but to me it looks you really bought into the hype that HuffPost, Maher AND the Reichwingers try to stick to Obama, who all the while are bringing NOTHING to the table than their misinformation and insults, and who are grinning broadly while filling their own coffers.
And please be aware that those who profit from a perceived fight/split amongst the left are not only the media (it brings them money, peace is boring, as O’Reilly said) , – but the right! Didn’t we all laugh heartily how they were split and how the GnOP would be down for at least 4 decades? Yet instead they managed to turn the tables and sow strife among the left! And, very sadly, Arianna H and Bill Maher are being some of the main players in that.
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