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

i posted dozens of hilariously witty comments on gawker over the years. about 3.5% of them were approved and published. imo that is why the whole enterprise went down in flames

(in case you're keeping track, gawker has now woke up to a dystopian reality, went down in flames, died, been placed in a coffin, and sunk to the bottom of the sea)

still got tim rogers, though

i posted dozens of hilariously witty comments on gawker over the years. about 3.5% of them were approved and published. 

Seriously. What was the actual process for getting out of the grays?

you had to personally know a mod and text them

yet more proof, as if further proof was required, that ilx is the only good design for an online forum

if you post on a site that isn't one of the more-trafficked ones or post on an older article you're never out of the grays. no clue how you become regular enough that you're not gray comment-by-default

I think the writers are self-moderating comments on their articles? seems like a hellscape

if you post on a site that isn't one of the more-trafficked ones or post on an older article you're never out of the grays.

There was a one-month period where I was posting there a lot for some reason (chronic messgeboars guy here, can’t help it), and what was frustrating was that even on the heavily trafficked, 20-minute old articles it was nearly impossible to get your comment approved

And on and older one, yeah, total waste of time to try to contribute. Cool system!!

what ever happened to "new gawker"?

it's still happening. now run by the guy who ran details for a long time. racist socialite girl is still there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/business/media/gawker-editor-dan-peres.html

missed this when it was reported a couple of days ago

lmao obv

In the latest sign of editorial turbulence, the number two editor at the yet-to-relaunch Gawker is returning to Interview, the Andy Warhol-founded magazine that only emerged from bankruptcy in September.

Ben Barna, who had been reporting to Editor-in-Chief Dan Peres, opted to return to Interview a mere five months after he joined Gawker, which famously filed for bankruptcy in 2016 after a Florida jury ordered it to pay $115 million for publishing a Hulk Hogan sex tape.

Barna will be replaced by Nate Hopper, who is still listed as the ideas editor on Time magazine’s website. He also once worked at Esquire.

A spokeswoman for Gawker’s new parent company, Bustle Media, said Hopper started in the new role Wednesday. Bustle, owned by Bleacher Report founder Bryan Goldberg, bought Gawker out of bankruptcy in late 2018 for $1.35 million.

Barna’s departure is just the latest setback in the notoriously snarky website’s relaunch. Gawker’s only two full-time writers quit in January in protest of an executive who they said used anti-gay slurs and made derogatory comments about Asians and celebrities deemed to be overweight. The site is now slated for a relaunch in “fall 2019.”

in related but not connected news: https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/babe-net-aziz-ansari-date-rise-and-fall.html

seems like a remarkable number of stories about the stories of men accused of horrifying things include some version of the line "the now-defunct news site Gawker published a story about..." https://t.co/7QBzk3IGEj

— Mark Berman (@markberman) July 10, 2019

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584

Yup.

nice.

big time banger

now 13 captures on the wayback machine

Seems obvious that it won't stay up. It hits home way too hard to be allowed to live.

Hm

rip splinter

god needed a radical rat.

this blows, they annoyed me sometimes but on the whole they put out a lot of really good stuff, especially HamNo but also Paul Blest, did Pareene write for them too?

the internet is shrinking

http://wondersinthedark.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/annie-hall-3.jpg
"What is that your business?!"

at the beginning it was so big that i was afraid; i kept running and running

Yeah I didn’t read it that regularly but this is shit. And yeah Pareene did write for them!

How long til they gut Deadspin and turn it into SportsNation?

the internet is shrinking

and yet according to Google (which ought to know) there are now over 30,000,000,000,000 individual web pages. But I'm guessing maybe half of them are for fake Louis Vuitton bags on Amazon.com.

according to one of those hamilton nolan posts that was linked to on another thread (us politics?), the guy running the company who now owns the remnants of gawker used to run forbes, and during his time there he instituted a goal of five THOUSAND piece of new content every DAY. (that's what we that are not in the biz like to call the "forbes seal of quality content")

the ^good^ internet is shrinking, i mean, or even just the part of the internet that tries

saw this RTd and it's maybe the best thing they ever published

https://splinternews.com/how-to-not-die-in-america-1822555151

yeah the people now in charge of gawker and sports illustrated have specific experience in running terrible websites

also g/o media's slogan is . . . THE HEARTBEAT OF NEXT

more like fartbeat, imo

Whomp whomp

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a29501602/gawker-bryan-goldberg-bustle-digital-group/

a man who appears to know what he wants but isn’t exactly sure how to get it

lol

G/O editorial bosses tell Deadspin no more non-sports coverage "Where such subjects touch on sports, they are fair game for Deadspin. Where they do not, they are not."https://t.co/6EP5hsOjky

— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) October 28, 2019

RIP The Big Wet President

nvm, someone has given Roth the out:
‘for all Trump articles you write, the first mention of him should be "Former USFL owner" -- boom, stuck to sports.’

Hi! I’ve just been fired from Deadspin for not sticking to sports.

— Barry Petchesky (@barry) October 29, 2019

the deadspin front page is a greatest-hits array of their non-sports tuff right now

the internet was great for widely disseminating good journalism and commentary but we're running out of places that are actually allowed to produce it.

i hear blogger.com is hiring

Earlier today, @JimSpanfeller, CEO of G/O Media, fired our colleague and longtime Deadspin Deputy Editor Barry Petchesky. This will not stand. We will have updates soon.

— GMG Union (@gmgunion) October 29, 2019

i'll campaign for any candidate who promises to jail private equity firm execs en masse

Is there a good resource on how private equity works? Like a more extensive article than the HamNo one? I don’t understand how these firms are able to profit off of undermining the long term health of the companies they acquire—much less saddling them with debt. Are they not looking to flip them later?

this matt stoller newsletter is pretty good (scroll down a little for the PE bit):

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-private-equity-should-not-exist

Pretty sure if you acquired gawker/deadspin in order to strip political content from it, you acquired it to kill it

tbh the wikipedia article on asset stripping gets to a lot of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_stripping

and basically no, they have no interest in flipping it at the end, there's often literally nothing to flip