everybody on ilx complains about reddit

the new york times' creepy old uncle

But then Twitterstorms are a cast-iron guarantee of misrepresentation and bullshit all round so there's that too.

Someday a real Twitterstorm will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

and then gawkers gotta go and do this http://gawker.com/5951031/andrew-goldman-is-not-a-misogynist-and-neither-am-i

i mean.

That was ridiculous. I know the dude is friends with Goldman and was trying to stick up for him, but there's no way Goldman would have asked any of those type of questions to a man.

And calling someone stupid because they enjoy reality television is nagl, especially when gawker covers reality tv extensively.

I know the dude is friends with Goldman and was trying to stick up for him,

exactly why he should have been the last person to write that piece

Each one of those Goldman questions makes a certain sense in isolation, as the NYT argued, but when there are three of them you have to think there's a problem.

that goldman article is terrible

That Cook piece is really bad.

its just like that thing where you get drawn into a messy muck over a bad thing and you keep swinging and you keep sinking. in a week or something it will feel awful to have written it, i bet.

like if that twitter convo had been on ilx we would have gone well past *lock thread* from the peanut gallery.

if only right

http://gawker.com/5950981/

holy shit

Brutsch, 49

christ

i guess i dunno why i expect 49-year-olds to be any more civilized than 15-year-olds

so disregard that christ

I dunno why anyone expected this dude to NOT be a techie in his 40s, tbh

haven't finished it yet but what i've read so far is really great

reddit?

needed another pass by a subeditor but fascinating reading

Good job, Walter Cronkite.
You exposed personal details about a guy who has done nothing illegal.

just fucking ugh

fair story, well done. there is an ethical issue w. "outing" ppl's online handles and hangouts and linking it to their real names in general, I think. like this came up on ilx the other week. but in this case, given the person and situation, and like who he is and what he's done, it's obviously legit, and the story is for the most part not trying to incite a mob or anything, but just sort of marveling at the whole thing. That said, revealing the dude's real name doesn't really help the story as a story, as far as I'm concerned, outside of adding a pageview-grabbing sensationalist touch. Which, ok, fine, you're a blog, you want hits.

if outing this fucker makes even one asshole out there think twice before posting sexualized pictures of unwitting under-aged girls for other creeps to drool over, then net gain imho

the stuff about his relationship w the admins is totally fascinating

this reads less as an outing than "this week on american life, ever wonder about who cleans up crime scenes? sarah koenig profiles a guy who does just that. Also an update from dishwasher pete, plus an interview with a guy who calls himself, and I'm not making this up, violentacrez"

He told me he close [is - sic] with a number of early Reddit employees—many of whom have now moved on—chatting with them on IRC or sometimes even on the phone. A few years ago, while Jailbait was still going strong, Reddit's administrators gave him a special one-of-a-kind "pimp hat" badge to honor his contributions to the site, which he proudly displayed on his profile. Brutsch said he was even in the final running for a job as a customer support representative at Reddit last year.

fuckin a

what are you talking about
xpost

er whoops i put my correction in the wrong spot

the tone of the article is more casual and familiar than one you'd expect to be "journalist drops public safety news bomb"

it was never really supposed to be a "news bomb" -- the reddit Freak Out has kind of changed the whole story, which was always supposed to be the sort of TAL-tone, "profile of weird internet guy"

Education
First Baptist Church School

between the accumulation of power through inter-mod battles / aggressive usefulness to admins and the immediate offer to gawker to "do anything" as a "spy" within reddit (no idea what he thinks gawker might want to know about reddit) this is some successful-sociopath shit (or i guess not really all that successful)

not really sociopath either; dude just didn't want his extracurriculars to cost him his job (you could in fact argue that his reaction is the epitome of being highly socialized)

https://twitter.com/ryanhatesthis/status/256874822578081792

smacked of gender

two other choice tweets from this clown

✞Ry★n Br❤d€r♪ck✞ ‏@ryanhatesthis
.@PUREIDEOLOGY @AdrianChen i dont think its a rofling matter, the rights of men in this country are dying as the matriarchy takes over.

✞Ry★n Br❤d€r♪ck✞ ‏@ryanhatesthis
I am so completely down with this record. ♫ The Heist – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis http://spoti.fi/OkDfTS #Spotify

h8 men tbh

do sociopaths not care if they lose their jobs

anyway of course i am not diagnosing and "shit" there was supposed to mean "behavior" as opposed to "character"; charming and bargaining and making yourself indispensable; people w capacity for empathy do that kind of stuff all the time too of course but they don't necc also devote all their free time to publicizing sexy pictures of children; it's just interesting to try and think your way into people like this

let's not give ira glass credit for inventing the profile

guys that guy is cool. hes joking.

i laughed at

They would say the fact that he created a subreddit dedicated to Hitler meant he was anti-Semitic, when really it was just trolling.

the great distinction of our times

guys that guy is cool. hes joking.

MACKLEMORE IS NO LAUGHING MATTER

guys that guy is cool. hes joking.

― max, Friday, October 12, 2012 5:03 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ohhhhh

i mean i dont know about the macklemore thing

hes "trolling," like hitler was

Surprised he didn't say "lol it was all a psychological experiment and reddit failed"

awesomethread and terrific work by pplains earlier with potential reddit frontpage stuff

max's comment about redditors being the future of the GOP was pretty eerie imo

reddit is truly America's Wandervogel.

I dunno why anyone expected this dude to NOT be a techie in his 40s, tbh

― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Friday, October 12, 2012 5:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

feels like the big reveal at the end of 8mm

They were mad that their buddy was going to be outed for simply, in their mind, exercising his free speech—his unalienable right to anonymously post stalker shots of women.

booming

I dunno why anyone expected this dude to NOT be a techie in his 40s, tbh

Also that he's from "Occupied Northern Mexico".