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

pareene is absolutely right that the article wasn't driven by pageclicks. In large part because the person they were reporting on wasn't famous or noteworthy at all. Unless the aim was to get pageclicks by sheer force of reprehensibility.

you have to complete the thought - why DID you post the horseshit if it wasn't for financial gain?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/fashion/how-being-outed-as-gay-lost-its-power-to-shock.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/booming/the-changing-rules-of-outing.html

because there is no privacy and all info must be set free?

"i'm not at my job because i want a paycheck. if all i wanted was a paycheck i would have become a lawyer, they make so much more money."

i mean between max's recent defense and nvc's tweet and the group editorial response, they are rejecting all guidelines in favor of making everything possible public

i don't think two pieces in the times makes them the authority on what is okay or not okay for a journalist to say about a private individual.

hey sterling clover, fuck you and your shitty display name

i do look forward to these righteous truth-seekers finding an outlet that will pay them to write any and everything they want with no interference tho!

hey sterling clover, fuck you and your shitty display name

― sleeve, Friday, July 17, 2015 8:31 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u dont even have a display name loser

stop being a douchebag.

There are so many people on ilx I can't keep everyone's personality traits separate. Has Sterling Clover always been a dickhole?

nah just on this thread, but hey shots were fired at my dn so all's fair, right?

off topic question (but hey, probably good to get off this topic, eh?): how many writers/editors/designers work at gawker? If they fold, how many people lose their jobs?

Well, considering the shameful way get bent was run off from ilx, maybe those shots were deserved. Grow up.

ok here's why i had the display name, because apparently i had no idea this would mean something else?

i had a dn jacked from some carles post ( umami (mild bleu cheese vibes) ) . then get bent showed up like 1 mo later with the same display name and i said "hi that's my name" and was told "ok but i'm not changing mine."

so uh i picked that name instead?

i literally know nothing else about any backstory that might mean people read it differently? so apols if it can be seen as referring to anything else, and i'll change it because this was getting stale anyway.

i.e. if i'm gonna be a dick, it should be for reasons i intend

wait whoa what happened to get bent??

She was mansplained to death in the Runaways thread and decided to leave altogether.

christ

what a day

i probably should've assumed something horrible was happening in a Runaways thread on ILM

i . . . don't think that's quite the case, but it is certainly true that she is a+++ and missed

Wait waht i followed that whole runaways thread and did not get that impression at all

It was more of a final straw thing, especially when the poll about white straight male posters was created on ile. It seemed like a directed jab. (Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but there's no reason to stay somewhere if you don't enjoy it anymore.)

wait whoa what happened to get bent??

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, July 17, 2015 8:00 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

srsly, what the shit??

I wasted too much of my day reading and thinking about gawker.

otm

I'm longing for the simpler days of last weekend, when Max and Jordan were just some guys on this thread debating the newsworthiness of Hulk Hogan's grunts and thrusts

for some reason i am picturing jordan as having gone into hiding, maybe in a rural village in sicily like al pacino in the first godfather movie

Tbh i wish him and max the best even though i've always been an outspoken member of the anti-gawker brigade. I don't like seeing anyone in a tough spot like that

Nah dude. They just derailed a guy's life for no reason. Fuck 'em.

So You've Been Publicly Shamed For Publicly Shaming Someone

Yeah, but idk what good would come of them getting shamed out of media. "Taste of their own medicine" sure but a dead end. They should apologize and try to make amends and then strive to be better writers/ppl in the future. xo

*xp

assumed it was a beatific hug and kiss

maybe they'd be better ppl if they quit "journalism" and became vets

most people would be better as vets

better than active duty i suppose

can devote more time to harmless kitty cats

i am looking forward to 2025 when i can read max's bestselling memoir about the crazy world of blog journalism in these transformative days, when "we were all just making up the rules as we went along."

i don't think it would sell very well tbh; whiney's dog book probably would outsell it 1000 x 1

Is whiney making a sequel? My dog has an american apparel hoodie

i would buy the sequel if he called it Hipster Puppies 2: Electric Pugaloo

Pugatorio

hipster puppies 2: get over yourself, hipster puppies

Contemporary Conformist Puppies

Tbh i wish him and max the best even though i've always been an outspoken member of the anti-gawker brigade. I don't like seeing anyone in a tough spot like that

― Treeship, Friday, July 17, 2015 10:58 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nah dude. They just derailed a guy's life for no reason. Fuck 'em.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, July 17, 2015 10:59 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agreed. Let's hope this is the last we hear from these fucks. Ruining people's lives for clicks. I hope they sleep well. Losers.

u cannot keep a freddie down!

https://twitter.com/freddiedeboer/status/622246763735457792

i can't keep up with all the popcorn

tbf freddie suddenly looks rather better than his tormentors