I also have an issue with the sites that loan her credibility (well, site, really since even the Herald makes her get in line with everybody else now).

In fact, I've actually found myself avoiding Prokoversed for the most part recently. I'd probably participate there more, but I don't really want the association with what is looking more and more like a Prokofy blog. The comments tend to run A-prok-B-prok-C-prok-D-prok etc. and she's taken to posting regular walls of text (typically far less vitriolic than what I recall from her sites before I quit reading them) too.

Frankly, it is sort of sickening to see her kissing up over there. And more sickening to see them buying it, or at least turning a blind eye to the other 99% of her web presence, for the handful of clicks her podcasts and posts generate.

It's a pretty odd choice for the folks that run that site, whose judgment I otherwise find pretty spot-on. Short term, maybe it's a good idea (I don't think so, but it probably buys a few clicks). Long term, it is almost certainly not.

It's like they filed down an angry monkey's teeth, and keep it in chained to a post on the bar. The angry monkey looks pathetic and the bar owners look greedy. I'm just surprised there aren't more drunks poking the monkey with forks to see it strain at the end of its short little chain -- though my suspicion is that the bar owners are taking very good care of their pet angry monkey. The problem, of course, is that angry monkeys make lousy pets, and it's bound to get free and trash the place some night.