As many have pointed out in the past, this is a BLOG.

NOT a cutting-edge news site with up to the minute info.

You honestly think this inane, self-indulgent asshole rant of yours is how to do a post? "I didn't check, I didn't have time to verify"? You're making blanket statements about what Blizzard did and didn't do without any facts or any effort on your part to back it up. That's fine for an asshole making a snotty comment on a blog, but if they did that kind of shit they'd get snotty assholes making stupid comments.

Like you, in fact.

So, it happened late on Thursday, and wasn't acknowledged by Blizzard until later Friday.
Therefore, unless the blogger was, themselves, playing Alterac all Thursday and Friday night, and going over their honor with a fine toothed comb, then it would have been awfully hard to post about it as it was happening, no?
As Slayblaze said; this is a blog. And not an "official" one at that. So considering it's not run by Blizzard, I think they do pretty darn well at keeping us up to date.
Want up-to-the minute info? Make a friend over at Activision/Vivendi and keep'em on speakerphone 24/7 while you play, all jacked up on Rockstar and Hot Pockets. But remember to be blogging everything you find out in real-time too. Gotta practice what you preach, eh?

I stayed in a AV after it was over when a tower had less than a minuet to cap. Once it did I received the 65 honor pts. then left the instance.

This on on 12-7

@Stevie G, it really doesn't take "going over with a fine-toothed comb" to realise that you're getting only 100 honour max per game instead of 400 honour+, and it's also not hard to realise that it's the towers that were the problem. Seriously, a post titled "Alterac Valley is now awarding honour correctly" is next to useless without a previous post titled "Alterac towers not giving honour!".

@bear: I totally agree with you. I was fully expecting wowinsider staff to wait until either (mmochamp/forum/lj) posts covered the topic in full detail OR the whole thing was fixed, although to be honest, I expected this info to show up on massively first, and then wowinsider second (in an attempt to pimp massively).

I also want to add that I'm not taking an absolutest position against Wowinsider, that is to say that I don't think they need to get everything right, all the time. I am however, increasingly critical about their poor journalistic ability. When I see 1-2 days worth of fluff posts (in all fairness there was an informative post about rogue bugs) and 0 posts on a bug that affects a large portion of wow players (lets face it, even if you aren't gearing for arenas even pve'rs are bging for s1 weapons), I question whats going on with the writers at wowinsider. They're either writing more posts (mostly fluff articles), writing on massively, or off and about with family and friends (which I support in full). The point is that they obviously aren't playing wow*, the thing which they ought to be posting on, because if they were, they would have heard about this bug an hour or so after it popped up.

*I think this really highlights how out of tune the current staff are with respect to what is currently going on in wow. How many staffers have 2300+ in all brackets? How many staffers are in BT guilds? Better yet, how many staffers are doing the full on AV s1 honor grind (I know a few play AV)? These are relevant questions because of two reasons: First off, I'm beginning to think that most of the wowinsider staff are ultra ultra casuals... practically speaking this means they lack a personal experience they can comment from. Secondly, the wowinsider staff don't always stick to fluff like "how do you feel about mongoose versus executioner", sometimes they venture into the empirical by making testable claims like mongoose is better than executioner. What I've noticed is that oftentimes, people who are more knowledgeable about game mechanics will correct the OP, who then will proceed to update their post (to not look stupid), or qualify what they said by saying "you have a valid point, this is how I like it though" (happens a lot in buildshops, but you only need to look at the comments in most posts which actually make a claim to see it). Both of these points would be moot if the staff here were journalists, but it's pretty clear as others have pointed out, that they aren't. This brings me to my final point, which is that these people get paid to run this blog. As readers, we put up with advertisements in order to keep this thing going. I would be perfectly happy if wowinsider were an advertisement free forum where everyone can post, but it isn't. Unlike a forum, the format of wowinsider demands that we give authority to it's authors, and demands that we pay them through their advertisement revenue. In short, the format of wowinsider forces them to be journalists regardless of whether or not they are merely bloggers. As such, we need to hold them accountable for being shotty journalists, when they are being shotty.

No, he's just a jackhole.

He may be a "jackhole", but he's right.

Also I have honor gains on my scrolling combat text, and I rarely afk in bgs. So I knew right away when something was wrong.