what next for Chris ott?

I don't think they're gonna take down the year end lists, since those are clearly valued for longtail traffic, available via one hover and click from the current pitchfork homepage

let him have his empty boasting, dude obviously isn't going to sue anyone, saying nasty things about pitchfork is just his hobby

"empty threatening," i meant, don't know why i wrote boasting

"oh shit, what about the year-end lists"
"can one of the new kids rewrite any of his contributions?"
"by close of business, probably"
"...Ott on the line. says we also can't use the points he allocated to any albums he voted for in the polls, those count as speech and he wants to be paid for the point allocation"
*blink*
*fifteen minutes of lawyers falling all over each other laughing*

It's not about the money. He has that, and bennies.

can;t we consolidate the Chris Ott threads?

and then just call it 'itt ott'

itt ott orc

that means I love yoooou

fwiw ott apparently got what he wanted:

http://pitchfork.com/staff/chris-ott/

reviews appear to be taken down as well, for example:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8969-slanted-enchanted-luxe-reduxe/

Amazing

And just like that, the fly buzzing at the window has been let out of the house.

written ott of history

the commottsar vanishes

dude is really mad about this latest development

written ott of history

― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Wednesday, October 14, 2015 8:15 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lolz

totally bullied them into erasing his written legacy, masterfully played

lol a true mastermind

http://media1.fdncms.com/portmerc/imager/mad-men-recap-cris-a-tunity/u/original/9280137/1367862477-oqnzqr3.gif

I know it looks like he's just one overconfident guy foolishly poking at a giant but let me remind you of the story of David. David vs the ATF.

musta otta gotta lotta

omg anthony

"reviews appear to be taken down as well"

removed by fi-ott

ott 1: spectre

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/329121_o.gif

trottsky

He got a pitchfork
That made his ears burn

A+ negotiating skills

"Oh no! Unfortunately, we can't find the page you're looking for — believe us, we really tried."

First time the Pitchfork 404 message has seemed viciously sarcastic

itt ott orc

― Evan, Wednesday, October 14, 2015 11:24 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that means I love yoooou

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, October 14, 2015 11:59 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

belly lol

This is genuinely wonderful. What a preposterous clown.

http://tktk.gawker.com/pitchfork-deletes-its-harshest-critic-1736804618

Pitchfork, the music website that was purchased by Condé Nast this week, has a tormenter. His name is Chris Ott, and he wrote for the site at an earlier point in its history, though you can’t read any of his reviews anymore because on Wednesday Pitchfork decided to completely erase him from its site.

Ott is a notorious crank who uses his Twitter feed to decry the commodification of the independent arts. At his best he can be a necessary check on the capitalist impulses of the music industry and the publications that cover it. At his worst he can be a straight-up asshole who uses his modest platform to hammer away at personal grudges, many of which seem to end up involving women who make and/or write about indie rock. To some he is an anti-hero, to others he is simply a verbal harasser.

Pitchfork (where I have previously written, and whose staff I am friendly with) often finds itself in Ott’s crosshairs. This is partly because the site has for some time been the foremost arbiter of indie music, in the process growing itself from a ragtag quasi-blog (in the days when Ott wrote for it) into a full-blown company that does big boy website things like packaging major features alongside brands such as Converse and Apple. But Ott also picks on Pitchfork because of his personal history with the site and its founder Ryan Schreiber.

so necessary, so anti-capitalist

his gripe w/Joanna Newsome, whose work I don't generally like past Milk-Eyed Mender, is kinda ridiculous insofar as he only addresses her at the level of her "brand" - like, she's an incredibly talented songwriter, I just don't groove to what she does, but nobody who pretends to engage the actual craft can really dispute that she's pretty good at it. I just don't dig, y'know, the content. but this guy, who pretends to care first and foremost about that very quality...doesn't seem to actually know shit from shinola on this q

love the gif on jord's piece

Jordan's piece is way fairer than anything I could manage, or than Ott deserves.

he said joanna newsome is the balsamic vinegar of music
but balsamic vinegar is really good idgi

it was sweet of jord to wait a couple paragraphs to acknowledge that pitchfork has deleted plenty of old reviews before

i'll miss this one the most

https://web.archive.org/web/20150926150655/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1589-shine-a-light

y'know, i had some interested in pointing out Ott being a shitbag when there were still plenty of people who just thought of him as a harmless and/or admirable rebel vlogger or whatever, but now that the word is out i don't really see much of a point in giving him more and more and more of the attention he craves

"the frigid, faggy dungeon"

Up until very recently I had no idea who Chris Ott was and didn't particularly give that much of a fuck, but after reading this thread out of curiosity I deeply suspect that there'll be more than a few folks out there adopting a similar position in a few years time. Basically, the guy sounds to me like an absolute bellend and I'm in full support of Pitchfork's decision, to be quite honest with you.

Does he write for anyone else? I feel like he left Pitchfork and then became a Twitter/ask.fm/Vimeo crank with no actual paying outlets for his thoughts on music. So with his body of work effectively disappeared (because come on, the Wayback Machine is for obsessives and no one else), isn't he pretty much out of sight, out of mind from here on?

I would guess so.

oh so Schreiber says "moving forward" in emails now. He's been bought by The Man.

i've never listened to the Constantines before what is wrong w/this guy? he sounds like the Gaslight Anthem dude had a stroke

tbf i quite like that album but i don't think there was any wresting of abandon from effeminate black-and-dayglo pretenders

like this is fine! actually this reminds me a lot of something i forgot about old school "classic" pitchfork, is they would take a solid indie rock band like this band, or wrens, or tapes and tapes, which i guess were all fine and good but you could have found like 3 bands just as good in any decent sized college town and suddenly make them out to be this total genius next big thing

like this is fine! actually this reminds me a lot of something i forgot about old school "classic" pitchfork, is they would take a solid indie rock band like this band, or wrens, or tapes and tapes, which i guess were all fine and good but you could have found like 3 bands just as good in any decent sized college town and suddenly make them out to be this total genius next big thing

gotta be honest w/u this is p much how I felt about the 'Mats at the time w/r/t how ppl would be goin off and I'd be like "oh, ok, they get drunk and rock out, cool I guess??"

yeah I mean I duno they were no Suicide Commandos

or Buzz Barker and the Atomic Bums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57OgqHtVrBE

or NNB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AWTGExPigI