Over the last month I had 103,008 page loads and 88,043 unique visitors to my Huffington Post blog.
And since HuffPo has about a million unique visitors, this was almost 10% of their traffic.
So of course I was concerned that I would lose many of those readers when I was fired because I revealed the Huffington Post Troll.
But perhaps things will work out.
These are my visitor stats as of Friday for this blog. The last few days' traffic is actually equivalent to the number of visitors I had on Huffington Post.
Amazing.
And, to all of you who made this happen; mentioning my blog, linking to this blog, e-mailing your friends about this blog.
THANK YOU!
45 comments:
Roger and rosethejet,
You are not the only ones who have noticed that feature.
And you are completely right that is unacceptable & unprofessional. I received this in my email blind-copied:
"From: Space for Dissidents(Don) readynot@gmail.com
To: Rlsally@
Date: Jun 24, 2006 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: To the Huffington Post: My observation.
Romi,
It is not just the accusation that someone had access to Dr. Rost's email. Which actually did happen.
"But I guess I must have offended the technology gods in the universe by writing about one of them. Shortly after my press release went out, my rostpeter@hotmail.com email account was blocked, and then my internet and phone service stopped working.
Today I got the explanation when Hotmail wrote the following to me:
"Thank you for writing to MSN Hotmail Technical Support.
This is Erickson and you mentioned that your account has been locked because you sent a lot of e-mail messages. I know how important it is to regain access to your account. Please let me assist you.
We have checked your rostpeter@hotmail.com and were able to find out the cause of the problem. Your account has been closed because it is possible that an unauthorized person may have accessed your account and sent messages to your contacts."
At least my hotmail account is up and working again. On Saturday a technician will come and try to find out why my internet connection doesn't work. I hope he doesn't know that the technology gods have put a spell on me since I wrote that blog . . ."
http://peterrost.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-really-tried-to-reason-with-huffpo.html
It is the combination of these things, and the fact a member of professional staff actually followed someone and in a manner of speaking "stalked" them by commenting on every living word the man breathed.
I just find that highly unusual, not to mention incredibly creepy and unprofessional for staff to do. And as well, there is the fact that censorship of this type does not extend to simply Dr. Rost. I have evidence here, that it is going on with many others and that they too are being blocked or "followed" by staff members.
They are complaining to the fact that their posts are removed before even being able to finish, and their posting priveledges revoked.
"
From: James Morris justicequest2000@yahoo.com
To: Ewen0who@aol.com, ravenhawk083@yahoo.com
Thank you for forwarding this as Huffingtonpost.com has been banning me from posting about the Mearsheimer/Walt paper as well (posts such as the following one and similar):
Why aren't we discussing this Mearsheimer/Walt segment on the pro-Israel lobby which aired on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' this morning?:
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=54755 ...
Ewen0who@aol.com wrote:"
This is all we are asking for is an investigation of the matter. Controversial topics or not, staff members should not be permitted to simply remove them and ban people at their very whim. Especially when the "abuse" feature can be gamed by using Mozilla Firefox. For people who don't want to debate the out of control AIPAC lobby, for instance they can openly claim the commentators are racist and refresh to hit abuse.
And when someone hits abuse, they are not able to do it only once. I think this is something the Administrators are not aware of. You can hit each button as many times as you like. In fact I, with absolutely no experience was able to hit refresh and push the "Abuse" button a total of 459 times until the post I didn't agree with was removed.
The fact that this is even possible, is extra-ordinary! The only way this can be such a constant annoyance is if the Technology staff programmed this feature in. In no other website, have I seen the ability to rig the rankings to your advantage.
All the best as always, but I surely hope they take it seriously.
Don
On 6/23/06, Rlsally@aol.com Rlsally@ wrote:
Don,
No one ever had access to Peter's email. I don't know what you are referring to. With regard to the rest of your concerns, we'll keep you posted the best we can.
Best,
Romi
--
"Those who cast their votes decide nothing, those who count the votes decide everything."
"It's all over except for the counting...And we'll take care of the counting."
R. King, Washington in 2003
Democracy will never falter to the fascist rule of law."
I found out even Patrick Fitzgerald noticed the security hole. On top of being able to vote your own comments up, you can use a proxy address and then hit refresh. It begs the question of whom designed this feature to begin with, and whether it was intentional.
You can then hit the "Best Of" buttons an infinite amount of times making it look like your IP address came from all over the country.
Sure, I bet some of these votes are real people who happen to be online. But the very fact the rest of them are likely the same person, is what makes the Huffington Post such a sorry sham.
Rigged voting in the USA and now Rigged voting for the self-serving a*holes in the blogosphere. I'm sure that is their biggest credibility problem, right there.
They need to fire the tech-staff and eliminate that security hole, because as it stands now, johnny-come-lately troll can REMOVE just about any post they see on the website!!!!
Mick
All blog posts relating to Dr. Rost have been taken down by HuffPo. They no longer seem to think it is a topic worth mentioning.
It might be worth trying to get the MSM more interested in Arianna's behavior. They don't particularly like bloggers anyway and this topic would give them something juicy that they could embarass her with.
MSNBC's Olbermann Disses Mearsheimer and Walt Critique:
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=412
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/stopcollection.htm#james_morris
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch
Huffingtonpost.com banned me again within minutes for posting the following to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/the-freedom-to-blog-on-th_b_23712.html?p=2#comments as there is incredible censorship going on there:
The following was posted in the comments section of the various blog entries by Peter Rost via http://peterrost.blogspot.com
Dear Mr. Rost,
I was able to get in a post or two to your blog at Huffingtonpost.com (the one about the Rendon Group as I posted the Rolling Stone article link and the additional links about Bamford as well). Huffingtonpost.com has been banning me for making posts about Mearsheimer and Walt (and similar) like the following one:
Why aren't we discussing this Mearsheimer/Walt segment on the pro-Israel lobby which aired on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' this morning?:
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=54755
6/24/2006
The following includes the comments page at which I posted what was mentioned above:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-peter-rost/how-a-public-relations-fi_b_22912.html?p=2#comments
Here is a tiny URL for the above one:
http://tinyurl.com/g6jkk
http://nomorewarforisrael.blogspot.com
By: HPcensoringtruthhere on June 24, 2006 at 03:01pm
They are censoring anything on Israel because, the Zionists know the jig is up thats obvious.
Israel and the Zionists can't hide or play the blame game now that they've ruined our country, via neocon intervention.
Those losers are all the same now, just like the trolls such as returnofdrevil2, Al Rogers, Nan Ellen of the Daily "KOS" propaganda press.
Anonymous said...
They are censoring anything on Israel because, the Zionists know the jig is up thats obvious.
Israel and the Zionists can't hide or play the blame game now that they've ruined our country, via neocon intervention.
Those losers are all the same now, just like the trolls such as returnofdrevil2, Al Rogers, Nan Ellen of the Daily "KOS" propaganda press.
6/25/2006
Very much agree with the above.. My HPCensoringBigTime Username was just banned at Huffingtonpost.com for posting on pages 1 and 2 of the comments at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/06/24/excia-aide-reveals-new-d_n_23738.html about Zionist war for Israel agenda and the Mearsheimer/Walt paper on the pro-Israel lobby segment which aired on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' program this past Friday..
Abraham Foxman (of the ADL) was hammered hard by the caller (a lady with the Brit accent calling from London) on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' this morning as she mentioned the USS Liberty attack/cover-up (http://www.ussliberty.org) and Paul Findley's 'There Dare to Speak Out' book and Jim Bamford's 'A Pretext for War' book as well (both the Mearsheimer/Walt and Abraham Foxman segments can be viewed online via the links at the following URL):
http://www.c-span.org/videoarchives.asp?CatCodePairs=Series,WJE&ArchiveDays=30
Here the tiny URL for the above one:
http://tinyurl.com/dl5na
Additional at following URLs about how MSNBC's Keith Olbermann dissed the Mearsheimer/Walt paper:
MSNBC's Olbermann Disses Mearsheimer and Walt Critique:
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=412
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/stopcollection.htm#james_morris
http://nomorewarforisrael.blogspot.com
This is a really good documentary by sane Jews on the issue of the occupation. It should be required viewing for everyone in Congress:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7828123714384920696&q=palestine+propaganda
Things are wierd over at Huffpost as they are now trying to divert attention to DAILYKOS for doing something unethical.
Talk about the pitch black pot calling the kettle black.
I wonder if the NYT will actually write up this on Monday?
Should be interesting in the next few days. I would love to see Arianna and Jonah being interviewed for doing the same things they accuse the Bushpigs of doing.
By the way, what is with the anti Israeli comments lately?
I never really read HuffPost after the first few days because of its format and commenting policies. I do not like left-leaning blogs that decide to monitor and censor commentors. Even DailyKos has become a less frequent read for me. I prefer John Aravosis' Americablog most of the time, although I still do read Eschaton and DailyKos.
Most of the blogs I read these days are smaller blogs, where the traffic is lower and the comment quality is better. The Internet is here for communication between people, not for some to force their opinion over those of others. The Internet has a famous saying, "The Internet determines censorship as damage, and routes around it."
Indeed it does. You are now a regular on my blogroll!
Something amusing I noticed...
Here we have a Sunday Round Up entry from... no other than.. Arianna...
http://www.filecabin.com/up1/1151282576-06-24-06_AHuff.jpg
And when you scroll down, you'd see...
http://www.filecabin.com/up1/1151282671-06-24-06_AHuff2.jpg
Dr. Rost's post in related posts!
I guess while she thought Dr. Rost was useless on non-pharma topics, it still could serve its purpose right there...
It's not anti Israeli to say the occupation is wrong. Some of the strongest voices against the occupation comes from Israel (and the UK). Definitely not the US though because they have a hyper sensitive pro-likud press and they have orgs like the ADL who love crying anti-semite any chance they get. This in the long run will backfire. This is documented over and over in history.
Maybe it's anti Israeli to say that the strongest lobby in D.C., AIPAC, should not be a pro Israeli lobby (which has gotten caught spying on the US more than any other organization or COUNTRY!!!). Or is that just patriotic?
Watch that google video documentry. Most of the voices are Jewish voices.
The anti-Israeli comments may be coming from a troll that was well known on HuffPo by a variety of names who has been sent here for our pleasure and amusement.
Perhaps it might be worth some of the good writers who are frequenting this blog to send letters to the editor of the NYT about the HuffPo scandal. They may not print the letters but they'll be more informed of the HuffPo shenanigans and more likely to report on it.
Sorry, but you are sounding like the guy who was posting non stop anti semitic stuff over at huffpo, I certainly hope you are not going to pollute this place as well.
Interesting thing about Huffpost, but the comments seem awfully subdued today which tells me that a lot of them MUST be talking about Dr.Rost and they are not posting them.
Arianna's blog after all these hours only has a dozen or so.
The one about DailyKos as well seems to have stopped posting comments and in fact I guess they are wondering what to do to stop this "problem" with Dr. Rost.
Seems to me they have a problem of their own on their hands.
Just hilarious.
Sorry, but you are sounding like the guy who was posting non stop anti semitic stuff over at huffpo, I certainly hope you are not going to pollute this place as well.
He doesn't just sound like him, it IS him.
He doesn't seem to understand that in his particular case, he isn't being censored by HuffPo, he's being censored by his peers. Many many people are voting his comments abusive (I did it all the time) and after enough vote him abusive, he gets banned.
He doesn't seem to understand that he is actually HURTING his cause instead of helping it.
I concur that it is NOMOREWARFORISRAEL et al. posting the comments because the links are the same. What's pathetic is that he/she was banned a lot less than far less inflammatory comments that were just querulous of the HuffPo stance.
Arianna's new blog post only has two comments and it's been a few hours now. It does seem like they're censoring a lot. They seem to be letting a few negative comments in and then the comments all but stop.
This ostrich thing is not going to bode well for them at all. Neither is the scarecrow thing of pointing in other directions. Shame, HuffPo seemed to have a lot of potential early on.
Is it anti semitic to wish that Israelis should fix their own problems in their own fucking country instead of dragging us into their shit? We give Israel 5 Billion taxpayer dollars a year. What the fuck are we getting in return? I think we can all agree it's not stability. Are we paying for that fucking crazy wall?
All Israel needs to do is give the Palestinians back the land they fucking stole in 1967. That's it. Middle East conflict solved. Instead, "our" media keeps preaching non-stop like some Nazi/Communist propaganda machine that our interests are somehow tied to Israel's interest and that the illegal occupation of Palestine by Israel is somehow also in our interest. How so? Please explain because this sounds totally crazy to me. The world agrees with me overwhelmingly. Even sane Jews (like the ones who made the following site) agree.
http://www.jatonyc.org/UNresolutions.html
Have many resolutions has the US vetoed again? If the US had recused itself in 1967, it would have ended in 1967. That holds true from then till now.
So can any pro-occupation Jews/Israelis explain exactly why it's in the US' interest to let Israel occupy the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem? Assuming of course that your audience is regular Americans who are predominantly not Jewish and don't give a rat's ass what's in your religion nor what the interest of Israel is to begin with.
Was that anti-semitic? Or patriotic? It really depends on your allegences. You best check yours before you reply because people are smarter than you think.
I mean if you want to call someone an antisemite, Henry Ford Sr. had some craaaaazy shit to say in his book:
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/intern_jew.htm
Looks like the Israel firsters are blowing the anti-Semite smoke screen yet again (to include here as well)to cover the Zionist war for Israel agenda. How long before I am banned yet again for posting the following at Huffingtonpost.com by the Israel firsters there?:
JINSA/PNAC Neocon Richard Perle: Why Did Bush Blink on Iran?:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=54827
http://nomorewarforisrael.blogspot.com
Rosethejet said...
Things are wierd over at Huffpost as they are now trying to divert attention to DAILYKOS for doing something unethical.
Talk about the pitch black pot calling the kettle black.
I wonder if the NYT will actually write up this on Monday?
Should be interesting in the next few days. I would love to see Arianna and Jonah being interviewed for doing the same things they accuse the Bushpigs of doing.
By the way, what is with the anti Israeli comments lately?
6/25/2006
I heard that there is major censorship at the Daily Kos as well when it comes to exposing the truth about the Zionist war for Israel agenda.. Read the article by Stephen Sniegoski which is linked at the following URLs:
Olbermann Disses Mearsheimer and Walt Critique :
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=412
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/stopcollection.htm#james_morris
Authors of Israel Lobby Paper Get Warm Reception at Military College:
http://mondoweiss.observer.com/2006/06/authors-of-israel-lobby-paper-get-warm-reception-at-military.html
Must watch/must listen video clip with Dr. Stephen Sniegoski:
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=400
'Iraq War Conceived in Israel' author Dr. Stephen Sniegoski on Karen Kwiatkowski's radio program (General Janis Karpinski of Abu Ghraib also discussed the JINSA/PNAC Neocon war for Israel agenda via the link for her radio program broadcast at the following URL):
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=52893
OH GOD,
I know you said you wouldn't censor anyone Dr. Rost, but how about blocking an IP?
I mean this anti semetic crap is just wearing real thin. We had to put up with it at Huffpost and then the idiot followed us over here.
Please tell us where he is sending from Dr.
I think it's from Iran myself, but hey he could be a homegrown racist.
Anyway, as mentioned, the blogs at Arianna's post are just few and far between and those posted are like the ones you see at Bush rally's. ONLY those that are pro Bush are allowed at Bush's rally's.
Only those that praise Arianna are allowed.
So much for her outfit being the high road for liberals and progressives.
I guess they are no different than those they attack.
Hypocrisy, thy name is GOP AND Huffingtonpost.
Such a shame. I had high hopes for the place.
Oh well.
Wow. That was a good video of a patriot:
http://video.csupomona.edu/HotTalk/KarenKwiatkowski-245.asx
Really?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999737,00.html
No shit?
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_405.html
What?
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1432
Should they be labeled a terrorist organization?
All cries of anti-Semitism aside, can we all agree that the occupation of Palestine is a grave injustice to humanity that any moral person should oppose?
Going back to the topic at hand, and not denying the importance of what others are presently discussing, but I've been following Arianna's blog post today and when I just checked it only had four comments and none of the objectionable ones to Arianna were there anymore from earlier in the day. HuffPo seems like a loss to me but their behavior should be demonstrated to others. Does anyone have any ideas about this one issue?
I got banned again minutes after posting the following at Huffingtonpost.com via http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/06/25/dem-senator-now-it-tur_n_23773.html and other blog entries there (incredible censorship still going on as mentioned prior):
JINSA/PNAC Neocon Richard Perle: Why Did Bush Blink on Iran?:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=54827
http://nomorewarforisrael.blogspot.com
Off topic?
Are world wars off topic? Nomorewarforisrael does a great service to everyone, that he posts his information to.
They can choose to read it or not. Those who do, are enlightened beyond compare. Off-topic does not this information make, when you consider the global conflict...
And the facts of the middle-east situation, that we stand to face a quick demise in any standoff against Russia/Iran for Israel.
That my friends, is the bitter truth.
I think these guys have it right when it comes to this issue:
http://www.jatonyc.org/
Anyone else is either insane or a Jewish Supremecist. That could be redundant.
Also I keep challenging you Jewish Supremecists to watch the following video all the way through and still maintain your opinion, but you never do:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7828123714384920696&q=palestine+propaganda
I think the message they end with is VERY pertinent.
I DARE you to watch this all the way through and sound like a rational person defending the occupation. I DARE YOU!!!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7828123714384920696&q=palestine+propaganda
The obvious Zionist Israel firsters above blowing the anti-Semite smoke screen to cover the war for Israel agenda of the JINSA/PNAC Neocons sound just like the ADL's Abraham Foxman who was on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' yesterday - he immediately blew the anti-Semite smoke screen when the lady from London hammered him hard:
Abraham Foxman (of the ADL) was hammered hard by the caller (a lady with the Brit accent calling from London) on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' this morning as she mentioned the USS Liberty attack/cover-up (http://www.ussliberty.org) and Paul Findley's 'There Dare to Speak Out' book and Jim Bamford's 'A Pretext for War' book as well (both the Mearsheimer/Walt and Abraham Foxman segments can be viewed online via the links at the following URL):
http://www.c-span.org/videoarchives.asp?CatCodePairs=Series,WJE&ArchiveDays=30
Here is the tiny URL for the above one:
http://tinyurl.com/dl5na
For all you anti-Semite callers out there, please skip straight to 1:11:30 - 1:13:00 and let me know what you think about that point.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7828123714384920696&q=palestine+propaganda
btw, Chomsky is all over that video saying dead on things as always.
Sweet!!! I got banned AGAIN!!! fuhuffpo is no longer. That's 2 accounts now! I'm gonna keep making accounts to clog up their server. Yay!
Yes yes, Israel sucks. I know. I've seen the video before. I AGREE with the video for the most part. And even so, I am not an anti-semite. But I also do not go screaming about Israel at every opportunity and trying to twist every topic towards the subject somehow. Anti-semites on the other hand do. So you see how that gets interpreted.
You want to talk about Israel? Start your own damn blog. Actually write in it. Cease your proselytizing here and other places. We have all long grown weary of it.
Don't make me call up NOMONKEYWARFORMONKEYS. 'Cuz I'll do it.
I am totally against Monkeys warring with Monkeys. Some goes for humans.
rev joker, so talking too much about Israeli policies makes you an anti-Semite automatically? It doesn't matter what it is you're saying? Just hitting a certain quantity makes you an anti-Semite? Maybe you need to see 1:11:30 - 1:13:00 again. It's like 1 min 30 sec.
I think you need to be very judicious about when and who you call anti-Semites. If you're going to, point out what part of their statement is anti-Semitic. Is someone saying AIPAC has too much influence over American politics the same kind of anti-Semitic view as this crazyness?
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/intern_jew.htm
Watch 'BannedforConveyingTruth' get banned very soon by the Israel first censors at Huffingtonpost.com for making the posts that appear on page 1 of the comments at the following blog entry that was just put up at huffingtonpost.com:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/06/26/msnbc-under-new-boss-dan-_n_23785.html
Anonymous said...
rev joker, so talking too much about Israeli policies makes you an anti-Semite automatically? It doesn't matter what it is you're saying? Just hitting a certain quantity makes you an anti-Semite? Maybe you need to see 1:11:30 - 1:13:00 again. It's like 1 min 30 sec.
I think you need to be very judicious about when and who you call anti-Semites. If you're going to, point out what part of their statement is anti-Semitic. Is someone saying AIPAC has too much influence over American politics the same kind of anti-Semitic view as this crazyness?
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/intern_jew.htm
6/26/2006
Read what American Jew Jack Bernstein wrote about the 'anti-Semite' smoke screen via his 'Life of an American Jew in Racist/Marxist Israel' which is found at the following URL (the Israeli Mossad murdered him after he wrote this):
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/israel.htm
Go through the following URL when you have a moment:
MSNBC's Olbermann won't address Mearsheimer/Walt on air:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=54300
Anonymous said...
btw, Chomsky is all over that video saying dead on things as always.
6/26/2006
Chomsky grew up in a Zionist household and downplays the pro-Israel lobby whenever he can despite knowing full well about JINSA/PNAC and similar.. Watch the video that Kurt Nimmo put together via the following URL:
Must watch/must listen video clip with Dr. Stephen Sniegoski:
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=400
Then read Dr. Sniegoski's most recent article which is linked at the following URL:
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=412
'Iraq War Conceived in Israel' author Dr. Stephen Sniegoski on Karen Kwiatkowski's radio program (General Janis Karpinski of Abu Ghraib also discussed the JINSA/PNAC Neocon war for Israel agenda via the link for her radio program broadcast at the following URL):
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=52893
I think it is far more judicious and liberal, to have links to the Israel-debate so people can choose to click on it.
Have a few scattered everywhere, just to get past the censorship. But don't overdo it- only post the most important snippets.
That will frustrate the censors, enlighten the public the right way.
You are welcome. Now can you write about something else for a while?
I read your blog because you have interesting and insightful things to say about the pharma industry, or baby birds or whatever else. That's the stuff that brings me here.
You're not blogging about that anymore. Your blog has become a gripe fest about you and Arianna. I could care less about that.
Trolling is a fact of life. There are many sites that control trolling well. Huffpo is not one of them. Get over it. My blog aggregator doesn't include comments anyway. I want to read what the bloggers have to say. If I want to hear from the trolls, I'll read the comments.
The hijacking of comment threads is another good reason to avoid them altogether. This comment thread is a great example.
I also don't care about your site statistics or the IP addresses of who visits your site. Put a link at the bottom to a site meter and leave it at that.
Write about interesting things. That's what made you popular in the first place.
I got banned yet again for posting what I did on page 1 of the comments at the following blog entry (as censorship is still very much alive at Huffingtonpost.com):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/06/27/al-qaeda-jihadi-textbook_n_23892.html
bannedagain10
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