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If you're making changes, one I would sincerely love is
***the ability to change comment order***.
I far prefer the original comment at the top, the most recent at the bottom. Others may prefer the present order, where the oldest comment is the last, the newest the first.
On many sites I can change the order simply by clicking a button. Would it be possible for HuffPo to set up their comments this way?
Thanks for a great site!
"New HuffPost Features: More of What You Come Here For"
Arianna:
It does not really matter how much you improve the content on this site; it seems that the consensus in these responses is that you need to improve VALUE for your commentators. You need to improve how YOU value us, how you VALUE US FOR OUR COMMENTS.
In conclusion this blog is all about you, Arianna. It is about you expressing your opinion and the opinions of your friends because you have enough money to do so. Yet the potential of Huffington Post is lost on the small minds that manage your site.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/22/hillarys-new-pitch-time_n_77998.html?load=1&page=2#comments
Looking forward to up-to-the-minute news coverage.
Thanks.
I am drawn to HuffPo like a bear to honey. Thank you for the wonderful Salon that the Huffington Post has become.
Please, please continue, improve, continue.
I have nothing in common with whoever you're posting for in that section.
It does not really matter how much you improve the content on this site; it seems that the consensus in these responses is that you need to improve VALUE for your commentators. You need to improve how YOU value us, how you VALUE US FOR OUR COMMENTS.
This site is already a revolution, but you fail to acknowledge that the greatest value here is not those who blog, but in those who come, read and comment. They are the true BLOGGERS of Huffington Post. You give a voice to the common folk, yet you seem to hate us.
You seem to think that your blog, The Huffington Post, is about the comments of yourself and the talking heads who write 'blogs' for you. Yet what this blog is really about is the words of the common folks who patronize your most excellent creation with the expressing and sharing of their thoughts and ideas. Incredibly, instead of respecting our input you seem to hate us.
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First your above blog that we are now commenting to contains nothing about the commenter, instead talks solely about what YOU have done to improve the content of YOUR site.
Secondly, commentators are considered of such little value that their posts are rubbed out of Huffington Post's history. I have saved many URL's of your pages from years past and they have all been 'disappeared.' The pages are still there, the blogs from you and your talking heads still remain, but OUR COMMENTS have been removed. It is as if we never were. It is as if we are of no value.
Thirdly, QUALITY COMMENTATORS are treated with disrespect. They are harassed for freely expressing worthy comment. Those who post radical or new ideas or novel criticism of government have their comments scrubbed. I am not speaking of antisemitic or of trailer-trash comment here, but of thoughtful educated criticism.
Part 2 follows, if allowed
early morning hours Huffpost often brings the news
much later than other websites. Too late!
Removal of old "news" usually your fluff stuff would be
a very good thing. Some articles stay on for days while the real news articles are removed too early.
Reducing the "Enquirer" like items would be terrific. Also please take them off of the main page and post them in Entertainment.
Current campaign news. Stop the Huffpost campaign for and against particular candidates and bring us the news and information and let us decide for ourselves.
I hope HuffingtonPost returns to what was originally promised. Lately we have been witnessing the "dumbing
down" through photos, headlines and article selections.
only notice by the super cool and only televised in Brazil.
Franti: What is your plan when you become President.
Kucinich: Don't sell out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfyLIPc4ePM&feature=user
BIG Republican Money will need to HIRE Evangelicals to rip Huckabee to pieces. This is nothing new for Republicans to HIRE a paid spokesperson to bad-mouth the group they must destroy.
Ken Mehlman, Matt Drudge (and dozens of other closet cases)HIRED to attack queers, Ann Coulter, Concerned HAGS of America, and Phyliss Schlafely HIRED to attack women, Armstrong Williams, Alan Keyes, and Clarence Thomas HIRED to attack Blacks, Michelle Malkin HIRED to attack Asians.
My money is on Ralph Reed (Abramoff BFF), bloated Pat Robertson, and Klan List Buyer Tony Perkins will be HIRED to do hatchet-jobs in Born Again-lingo to rend Huckabee's garments with Daggers..Ides of March TWO.
HUFFPOST IS THE BEST SOURCE OF NEWS AND POLITICAL COMMENTARY ON THE INTERNET.
ON TV, OLBERMAN’S COUNT DOWN AND MOYERS' NOW ARE THE ONLY PROGRAMS WITH HIGHEST STANDARDS OF NEWS JOURNALISM.
HAVING SAID THIS, I HAVE ONLY A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR HUFFPOST
TRY NOT TO LOSE OUR POSTS – SO FRUSTRATING WHEN YOU HAVE SPENT TIME GETTING RESEARCH AND COMMENTS DOWN TO 350 WORDS AND FOLLOW ALL THE RULES, AND THEN – POOF, ITS GONE WHEN YOU CHECK IN A HOUR OR A DAY.
THE SAME THING HAPPENED YESTERDAY WHEN I RESPONDED TO ARIANNA’S GRACIOUS INVITATION TO HELP IMPROVE HUFFPOST. AS I WAS RE-SUBMITTING IT LAST NIGHT, MY INTERNET CABLE CONNECTION, TIME WARNER, TOTALLY BROKE DOWN FOR THE NEXT SIX HOURS.
SO TODAY, I AM RESUBMITTING IT, HOPING IT WILL BE POSTED. I THINK THOSE WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO POST REPLIES WITHIN 24 HOURS, FOR WHATEVER REASON, SHOULD BE ABLE TO SUBMIT POSTS THE NEXT DAY.
ALSO, PLEASE UPDATE PAGES MORE THAN ONCE AN HOUR SO THAT POSTERS DON’T HAVE TO WAIT LONG TO SEE IF IT GETS THROUGH OR IF ANYONE REPLIED TO IT.
HAVE A DAILY POST FOR CURRENTLY PENDING BILLS THAT ARE VITAL TO OUR COUNTRY AND THE PRESERVATION OF THE CONSTITUTION. LIST SPONSORS, AND CONGRESSMEN WHO SUPPORT OR OPPOSE THEM, SO VOTERS KNOW WHO THEY ARE.
A CITIZEN’S ACTION PAGE COULD PROVIDE A LIST OF PETITIONS AND LETTERS OF WARNING TO CONGRESSMEN AND CORPORATE MONSTERS, WHICH WE CAN SIGN AND FORWARD TO MILLIONS OF OTHER AMERICANS. THAT WOULD BE A POWERFUL WEAPON TO USE IN THE WAR WE ARE FIGHTING TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY.
HAVE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR SECTION – AND INCLUDE THE “EDITORS TEN BEST CHOICES OF COMMENTS” MADE ON A PARTICULAR DAY OR WEEK.
HAVE AN "OPEN LINE BLOG" IN WHICH POSTERS COULD INITIATE DIALOGUE ON ANY SUBJECT WITHOUT HAVING TO WORRY ABON UT BEING "OFF-TOPIC".
AND PULEEEEEEEEEEEEZE KEEP HOLLYWOOD GOSSIPERS OFF HUFFPOST!
THANK YOU
GOOD WISHES TO ARIANNA AND STAFF
CONTRATULATIONS FOR MAKING HUFFPOST A GENUINE AMERICAN TREASURE.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL