T/S: Defamer v. Gawker

password reset lady at my school just gave me some parting advice: "just stay off of the gawker"

ADVICE TAKEN

my password was "jordan"

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/12/13/the-top-50-gawker-media-passwords/

― dayo, Wednesday, December 15, 2010 12:37 AM (5 days ago)

lol @ pokemon

― k3vin k., Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:08 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wonder which one j0rdan's was

― k3vin k., Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:08 AM (5 days ago)

^____^

comments section:

Reminds me of the time my sister bought my nephew a gift, that she told him was from me, because I upset him and accidentally took his apple or something. I'm allergic to apples to this likely didn't happen and was imagined by my nephew because kids are moody and nonsensical beings. But I did the normal thing and brought him a big bag of apples next time I saw him. My sister kept insisting the toy to appease was from me, but I insisted otherwise.

???

actually all the comments here are winners:

http://gawker.com/5715629/ungrateful-little-jerk-embodies-americas-attitude-towards-reading

Either
1. Long diatribes about how bad the parents are
2. Weird bragging about how they used to read as kids

Weird bragging is usually the domain of the jezebel commenters.

MrKotter 10:57 AM

So your plan is to restore that respect for reading, one Katy Perry post at a time?

boom

funniest thing about the WSJ blog entry -- that people actually do "online banking." What a buncha darned fools.

?

does that boggle ur stone-age mind or

other things "darned fools" do "online": shopping, taxes, reading, chatting!?!?!

would you say you pity these fools?

never been ripped off during online chatting and reading funnily enough

I don't think many people are ever ripped off due to online banking, fwiw.

The most you're going to be able to do is view balances, transfer between existing accounts, and view bank account numbers. You know, the same numbers anyone can read off of a check you write.

But checks might be too "damned foolish" too, I don't know.

thx for the new display name

lool

I prefer barter

also, fuck you am0n

;-)

re: weird bragging, I think that if I were a Gawker/Jezebel writer my #1 priority would be to craft posts that encourage people to share their SAT scores

iirc gawker used to have (or maybe still does have) an 'exclusive' commenter policy, so long story short i nvr got an account

cried my darn eyes out lol

On the plus side no one is using your bank account to buy boats

Okay, hawkers, you've made your point. I should have used different passwords for each of my accounts, but it was so much easier to remember that my son's birthday followed by my blood type would access my email accounts while the last four digits of my social security number and what my driver's license says I weigh would get me onto ebay, Paypal, Etsy, You Tube, GoDaddy, Amazon and assorted sites I used in my quest to find the tastiest olive oil.

I don't remember ever visiting gawker, but apparently there was a time when I was curious about whether or not Gwyneth Paltrow might have been photographed eating carbs in a trendy Soho restaurant as I had an account. That was my undoing as having a Gawker account made it possible for you to pass yourself off as the online me.

Would you use my Etsy account to buy a hand loomed scarf? My Amazon account to push some obscure author to number one? My PayPal account to score elite tickets to "The Merchant of Venice" or a New York co-op? I was desperate to create new passwords and would now take it more seriously, avoiding using my birthday or schools I'd attended that are published on Facebook, and not being lazy like those who grasp at the most popular passwords: 12345, password, lifehack, qwerty, abc123, 111111, monkey, consumer, 0, letmein, trustno1.

AOL provided instructions for strengthening a password, which helped me arrive at a formula impossible to penetrate. The trick is to mix capital and lower case and accompany the letters with numbers. I capitalized the second letter of Hackers to make my password a most improbable "hAckers" (clever, no?). And I split up the word by inserting my area code, 212, at different points between the letters. I don't mind telling you I feel slightly smug and just hope Julian Assange doesn't spread this around on WikiLeaks.

Seemingly the only site not penetrated by you is my web site - www.sybilsage.com. But you and everyone else should feel free to go there and buy mosaic art with complete confidence that you will be completely secure.

Follow Sybil Adelman Sage on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Sybil Sage

it's really amazing how 2 Gawker writers and 20 or so commenters (suckers!) can discuss 'the year in film' and mention exactly one foreign-language title (the crap I Am Love).

really, what is wrong with the Millennials?

gawker did the "dude with funny name wins at cannes" story, i think u may be expecting a bit much from them

I just find it weird that ppl who are fairly sophisticated compared to the Great Unwashed about literature, politics etc persist in only being aware of mall movies.

are you saying that bloggers shower

Foreign language cinema still gets a pretty low circulation rate.

also: why aren't gawker writers out plowing the streets

hard 2 read subtitles while texting

Foreign language cinema still gets a pretty low circulation rate among bloggers who call Inception "smart."

http://lifehacker.com/5688167/the-best-way-to-complain-is-to-make-things

so is gawker down for everyone?

just you

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

huh weird

we decided we didnt want you reading us anymore sorry

http://tv.gawker.com/

max, we need t shirts w/ your column portrait on em.

the new layout is kinda weird imo

yeah, it's going to take some getting used to

i have the original in my apt, its v creepy, the eyes follow you

xp

woah u live at hogwarts bro

feeling kind of mixed on the new design, doesnt feel smooth right now re scrolling clicking etc, just txt headlines no images or excerpts in the side nav is not that exciting like theres much less info available on the home page than there used to be - on the other hand i like the clean appiness of it def wave of the future more refined than the stuff weve seen in beta tryin a be twittr or w/e - when does it go live on the big site

http://tv.gawker.com/classic

(btw, the dude's link in that post -- to http://www.tv.gawker.com/classic -- doesn't work)

broepstorff
Am amused that web design is basically reverting back to frames (see: twitter 2.0, jalopnik 5.0).
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply

http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/nick-denton-gawker-redesign-only-facebook-matters

"Gawker went live with its redesign on two of its web sites this morning, io9, Gawker TV and Jalopnik."

...

At least it's keeping vip.xml, right?