— A few days ago, I described college blog Hoosier Review as “a project of Indiana U. students who didn’t make the cut at the school newspaper” following some unethical, churlish, and generally juvenile behavior in their quarters, already described in various comment sections here.
This characterzation was unfair, as some of the HR staffers are capable of making the cut at their school’s daily paper, even if others aren’t. I’ve learned that many, many Hoosiers love their Review, and the fact that all of them use the same computer to send e-mail from their various Hotmail accounts shouldn’t bias me against them, or her, as the case may be. So while the HR is nowhere near the caliber of the blogs I’ve listed for some time under my Blog U. section, it’s generally written in gramatically correct English and tends to be free of major spelling or punctuation errors. If they would simply drop the practice of publishing their dumbest rants under feminine pseudonyms, they might get on the road to acceptable. But the Hosers are young, and time is on their side.
While you’re at it, why is my blog lumped in with all of the Prime Dry-aged losers, rather than the more glamorous Dry-aged Prime?
HR ROCKS! It’s the best college blog I’ve seen.
I would first like to compliment you on your ability to degrade while eeking out a bit of a “correction.” (I am using a computer in Ohio, not the one mentioned in the “correction”) More importantly, I would like to stress the greatness of the Hoosier Review. The writers provide well crafted, insightful articles on a variety of topics and they very often provide the first scoops on news. I often consider their comments when forming opinions on current events. The blogging includes some “rants” that I occasionally object to, but I accept this because they provide a comments section. In conclusion: the Hoosier Review is a fine web page not deserving of such degradation.
I really like the Hoosier Review, I check it as often as possible.
I enjoy the wide variety of articles on the Hoosier Review. Although some of the opinions aren’t quite the same as my own, I appreciate them. Also, many of the articles dicuss topics not usually addressed by newspapers. I appreciate the hard work of those on the Hoosier Review staff. Keep up the good work.
My congratulations to the HR’s booster for her ingenuity – previously all pro-HR comments came from Hotmail accounts, and now they all come from an AOL account. You’re fabulous.
<While you’re at it, why is my blog lumped in with all of the Prime Dry-aged losers, rather than the more glamorous Dry-aged Prime?>
Are you saying Glenn Reynolds is a loser? Shame on you.
HR is a GREAT Website dont go bashing other peoples websites thats just sad.. NO LIFE! and why do commenters have Hotmail or AOL accounts..?? most young people do.. Like me for exmple i have both! plus yahoo!
It’s interesting that there have only been pro-HR comments posted on this site twice — the first time, they all from the same IP address and all sported Hotmail addresses; the other time, today, they all have AOL addresses. Actual students at Indiana have school accounts and have no need for Hotmail or AOL. If your work at HR has so much merit, “Hillary,” it stands on its own without your scamming. Apparently, the issue isn’t the HR as a whole, it’s the incoherent, goose-stepping, and fact-twisting writer, “Hillary Carter,” the HR’s albatross.
Never.
Actually, on second review I think that I’m not worthy of the Prime Dry-Aged crowd and too good for the snobby Dry-Aged Prime. I think that you should establish a separate category just for me and call it Dry Primed-Age.
Richard – you’ll know they’re getting desparate when they use a Yahoo e-mail account.
You could be “Greatest Blog in the World” for a while if you like. Are you ready?
In e-mail, “Hillary” said this: “It’s just Hillary and Rush that have pseudonyms, and that’s because they work for the daily paper, and would risk dismissal.”
And on the HR site she said this: “As for the charge that I still work at the student paper, well, that’s just not true.”
We report, you decide.
Not really. Too much pressure.
Please explain for me what the significance is that commenters have hotmail and AOL accounts? Probably a good 75% of the people I know have their accounts with them.
You clearly personally attacked people at HR without any prompting by saying they can’t “make the cut”. You refuse to apologize, and instead opt to further insult them. Irregardless of anything else, these things are undeniable and are facts.
It seems to get especially troublesome when I look and see how rude you are to other bloggers as well, often making blatant lies and/or twisting the truth. It really hurts your credibility.
Well, Rick, it’s pretty simple: let’s say you were conducting a poll, and you asked people to vote by e-mail. Tallying the votes, you find 8 votes for “yes”, and 3 for “no.” Then you take a closer look at the e-mails, and lo and behold you find they all the “yes” votes came from the same computer (assume you’re a technical guy and you can figure stuff like that out.) And you also determine that several of these e-mails used Hotmail addresses in an attempt to cover their tracks. That’s a bogus voting pattern. So you mention what you found, and the offending party switches to a different trick, namely using a single AOL account with a variety of screen names to cover their tracks. This would be a little trickier, since AOL reassigns IP addresses and you can make up e-mail addresses all day long if you like. But the thing that stands out is that you haven’t received a single comment from an AOLer the whole time you’ve been using this comment system, and then all of a sudden you get several, all saying the same thing, and all within a matter of minutes.
It’s called “common sense,” dude, use it.
Here’s an AOL user that finds in favor of Bennett… pretty shady looking, Hoosier Review.
It’s funny that the pro-HR comments get deleted or questioned because they’re from AOL addresses. But anti ones stay.
I also noticed that two or three critical comments posted yesterday under other posts are now gone. “Bennett the Communist”? “Bennett the censor”?
Hell, I’ll be surprised if this comment makes the cut either.
I generally delete comments that are obviously spam, but whatever my rule is, this is my site and I can do any damn thing I want with it, including editing your comments to remove references to your sexual relationships with poodles. Don’t like it? Tough shit.