hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?

Hey hip-hop nerds. What kind-of hip-hop is this?

will do

don't you live in greenpoint where's it's like 90% polish people and upwardly mobile white twentysomethings pretending to be broke? who are you scared of there?

― imo phillips (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, February 21, 2009 11:34 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are you scared of getting a seitan taco from the taco truck?

― imo phillips (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, February 21, 2009 11:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

best thread ever

"grim reapah!" burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb never fails to brighten my day

pretty cool to have a site mod willing to go that extra mile and call users out not just on their ilx behavior but also on how well they're doing their actual jobs

jjjusten is cooler than anyone who works for gawker

it's a real violation of privacy for mods to be digging around our personal websites

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/gawker-tells-judge-fairpay-twitter-774737

ew gawker's pervasive grossness makes their regular bursts of sanctimony feel particularly disingenuous

Not all hashtags are cool with Gawker. The media company wants a single general tweet about the lawsuit and if a hashtag is to be used, Gawker wants it to be #gawkerinternlawsuit. As for the no-go's, Gawker's lawyer Mark Batten writes, "The hashtags #fairpay and #livingwage are inflammatory, and the Court’s approval of those would suggest that the Court has a view about the merits of this lawsuit. And the use of #nickdenton is also inappropriate; Mr. Denton is not identified with this case, and his personal conduct is not at issue in the matter."

woooowwwwwwwwww

#gawkerinternlawsuit #fairpay #livingwage #nickdenton

Gawker wants the plaintiffs to be careful on Reddit, not connecting this lawsuit with "unrelated controversies and political causes." Denton's company gives some examples. The plaintiffs shouldn't attempt to leverage the GamerGate controversy by posting in the subreddit "KotakuInAction," which Gawker says has expanded into general criticism of its gaming site. "Plaintiffs apparently would like notice of the lawsuit to be added to this 'munitions pile,' but there is no justification for doing so," states Gawker's letter. "The same is true of Plaintiffs’ request to post information about this lawsuit in the 'OccupyWallStreet,' 'LostGeneration,' and 'Progressive' subreddits."

tbf I understand them asking plaintiffs not to further sic the dogs of gamergate on them

or the dogs of the 'progressive' subreddit?

xps to mordy's sanctimony comment: exactly, they produce good work sometimes, but the idea that they are arbiters of ethics/morality/etc. is hysterical. (the same is true of denton's sworn enemy vice, this isn't just a gawker problem)

tbh if they were honest they'd just bring back shit like gawker stalker and own the sleaze but that'll prob never happen

tbf to vice they are pretty nihilistic (i feel defensive for them bc a lot of their foreign coverage has been really engaging over the last couple years)

we get the media outlets we deserve, unfortunately

xp the vice HBO series is great - the chiraq and north korea episodes from season 1 stand out in particular

gawker manages to be awfully sleazy without gawker stalker

i don't really get the complaint of being "sanctimonious." should journalists not call out people on sleazy shit if their employers do the same shit? i weakly prefer the sanctimoniousness of gawker to the seedy relativism of vice

idk i don't feel like journalism should be about call-outs, that's more like arnold diaz "shame shame shame" journalism.

theres also the question of the extent to which journalists or commentators shd be held accountable for the corporate sins of their employers........

obv if someone is doing exemplary work, even for an otherwise odious media org, i'll read + appreciate them

generous of you

i love to give back

wow i can really feel the love rn

xpost

http://albertburneko.kinja.com
http://caity.kinja.com
http://pareene.kinja.com

more 4u mordy

http://sambiddle.kinja.com

Looks like my classic grim reapah thread will never die. I was young, stupid, and drugged out of my mind when I wrote that thing - whaddayawantfromme.

so youre saying burt stanton was your drugged out alter ego

It was me on drugs making an ass out of myself. I just wanted to make people laugh, even if it was at my own expense.

a thing of beauty is a joy forever

welcome back burt

we get the media outlets we deserve, unfortunately

― mh, Friday, 20 February 2015 22:27 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dunno, think i deserve better i'm a pretty cool guy

xp Thanks, crunch. This feels really weird because I'm nothing like burt_stanton these days, so I really don't know what I'm doing here now. hipsters. trust funds. druggy surrealism. my gigantic dick that breaks tables when i slap it down on them (I was actually hired for a couple of months in a recycling facility). Guess you can't outrun consequences. Whelp, looks like I'll be taking my leave then.

rip

the grim reaper got him in the end

sorry, I meant "grim reapah"

tbf i'll take burt over gabbneb when it comes to reunion tours

cool radio, bro

there are things i quite like on gawker like that Hamilton Nolan fella

also ev'thing relating to celebrities and TV shows i do not know

Are you new to the Gawker thing? The worst of humanity, monetized.

thatd be a good masthead

I think either the Wall St Journal or the Congressional Quarterly uses that

no wait, the Clinton Foundation

wait burt_stanton changed his name again? wtf

don't you live in greenpoint where's it's like 90% polish people and upwardly mobile white twentysomethings pretending to be broke? who are you scared of there?
― imo phillips (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, February 21, 2009 11:34 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are you scared of getting a seitan taco from the taco truck?

― imo phillips (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, February 21, 2009 11:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

best thread ever

― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Friday, February 20, 2015 4:37 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

Whiney ain't wrong about Greenpoint tho

http://d1i6vahw24eb07.cloudfront.net/s115864q.png

thatd be a good masthead

― johnny crunch, Friday, February 20, 2015 8:39 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Teren Delvon Jones might have a claim

Wait, did the Hulk die having sex or something?

there was just an article in the verge last week about writers leaving substack for other platforms because they were paying fees 2x-8x what other platforms charge them. some also cited diminishing returns in terms of what substack can do/is doing to grow subscriber bases

Unlike some of its biggest rivals, Substack takes a 10 percent cut of total subscription revenue. That tax may not seem substantial at first, but it quickly adds up as creators gain subscribers and begin charging more for their subscriptions. A calculator on Substack’s own website estimates that for a newsletter charging $10 per month with 400 subscribers, the total monthly cost — including the platform’s 10 percent cut and credit card processing fees — would add up to $636. That cost jumps to $15,900 per month with 10,000 subscribers and skyrockets to $79,500 per month for 50,000 members — nearly $1 million per year.

Many Substack rivals charge a flat monthly fee, rather than a commission. Ghost, an open-source platform for blogs and newsletters, starts at $15 per month with 1,000 members for website creation, email newsletter capabilities, and a custom domain. Beehiiv, a creator platform with tools for launching a newsletter, website, and podcast, is free for up to 2,500 subscribers with limited access to certain features, like a built-in ad network, while its other plans vary in price based on subscriber count. A person with 10,000 subscribers, for example, will pay $96 per month for Beehiiv’s “Scale” plan.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/927294/substack-tax-ghost-beehiiv

FWIW, Substack newsletters all have RSS feeds so if you use a feed reader you can just read that way.

Did they get around to adding rss to the paid posts yet? That was the main drawback the last time I tried to follow them that way

paid substack posts show up in my rss reader, but i have to click through to a logged-in browser tab to actually read them. i'm just learning that patreon only does rss for podcasts, which is pretty annoying.