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Globe to ditch most of its bloggers; some to stay on as freelancers

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By adamg on Mon, 03/24/2014 - 8:09pm

Community Voices is soon to be no more, Dan Kennedy reports. He adds the Obnoxious Sports Fan is staying on, but will reveal his actual name. A Globe editor claimed to be shocked, shocked that somebody was blogging for the Globe anonymously.

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By cybah on Mon, 03/24/2014 - 8:26pm.

So more more Dirty Old Boston either? :( *sad trombone* (at least he's on Facebook!)

By Dan Kennedy on Mon, 03/24/2014 - 8:40pm.

I was told that a few of the Community Voices blogs will be kept. Hard to imagine they'd dump Dirty Old Boston.

By anon on Mon, 03/24/2014 - 9:25pm.

I, anonymously, acuse the editors of either lying or not ever reading their website. OBF has been prominently featured on Boston.com. I'm going with the lying theory.

By PeterGriffith5 on Mon, 03/24/2014 - 9:58pm.

The community voices blogs were the one readable part of Boston.com.

By Josev on Mon, 03/24/2014 - 10:23pm.

That sucks about Dirty Old Boston. I hope they ditch the real estate blogger.

By anon on Mon, 03/24/2014 - 10:23pm.

I really enjoyed the post that was a series of screen grabs from reddit's Boston section.

By adamg on Mon, 03/24/2014 - 10:34pm.

Because it most definitely did.

By anon on Mon, 03/24/2014 - 10:29pm.

I can't say I'm surprised, since one of the featured blogs has been trumpeting "Did anyone get engaged this Valentine's Day?" as its headline/most recent post for six weeks now. If you can't bother to update at least weekly, you shouldn't have a news blog.

By Ron Newman on Tue, 03/25/2014 - 2:06am.

I've been reading him ever since he started with Salon.com way back in the 90s.

By FlyingToaster on Tue, 03/25/2014 - 7:48am.

A Globe editor claimed to be shocked, shocked that somebody was blogging for the Globe anonymously.

Would you blog for the Glob under your real name? I certainly wouldn't.

By bosguy22 on Tue, 03/25/2014 - 9:38am.

Especially when you're posting the annoying drivel that the Obnoxious Sports Fan was.

By anon on Tue, 03/25/2014 - 9:29am.

Kevin Paul Dupont is also leaving the globe. He is a racist, and generally a sub-quality human being. Good riddance.

By aging cynic on Tue, 03/25/2014 - 2:34pm.

to use his own name and not play the race card anonymously. So apparently it takes a sub-quality human being to recognize another one.