It used to be that the Huffington Post approved almost every comment I left on the blog side of things.

Then, after they started their Katrina coverage, there were very few comments on the blog side, and what there were were complimentary. While some brave souls appeared to let most or all comments through, most of the HuffPo's pseudo-pundits appeared to be massively deleting comments. I say that because controversial posts had almost no comments, and that's certainly strange.

Now, the HuffPost has disabled auto-linking of URLs. That means that the URL you leave beside your name is not linked to any URL, bare URLs left in comments aren't turned into active links, and HTML links are stripped out.

They apparently can't stand the heat.

Not only that, they appear to want people to build content for them for free. One of the prices you pay for people leaving comments is giving them a link. Leaving a comment builds up a page in a way that search engines like. So, if you leave a comment there expecting to get a link out of it, you're getting ripped off.

Solution: ignore that site.

UPDATE: This site says that the Greek beauty has over 15,000 comments needed to be moderated, so, if that's to be believed then it's not that they've been deleting them they just haven't been able to deal with their absurd policy. They're "liberals", what did you expect?

Also, note that that last link contains a nofollow tag. I left a comment there, which may or may not get moderated. But, if it does, it will have a nofollow tag in my URL. Why should I give him a real link if he's not going to return the favor?