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

no i'm making a qualitative distinction

I don't think that means what u think it means

i don't care about this stupid post. my point was that i highly doubt it's produced out of institutional malice as much as it is systemic necessity.

i like how i'm being called the gawker chris crocker for suggesting that calling the ppl who run it "sociopaths" might be a little OTT

Good work everyone

yup you said "sociopaths" might be a little OTT and we called you the gawker chris crocker

yay

yup you said "sociopaths" might be a little OTT and we called you the gawker chris crocker

― da croupier, Thursday, April 16, 2015 4:08 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this no less misrepresents this argument than basically any post you've made on this thread in ten years of ilx

omg...you learned it by watching me

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/IlpjRSf4d_k/hqdefault.jpg

I agree with croup on this one, but it is also true that I will die clutching a crucifix, whispering croup posts into Jesus' right cubital fossa.

the only acceptable outcome is max resigning after the embarrassment of the horny mom debacle

the hivemind would also accept the posting of an embarrassing photo, preferably involving shorts and some kind of exotic fruit

someone's gotta pay man its time for some new media frontier justice for the poor beleaguered scapegoat of clickbait culture

a messageboard rallied to the defense of standards in tabloid journalism and you won't believe what happened next

His name is probably jace lol. That's a white person name (those are the bad funny names)

the weird thing about that joke is the only Jace I've ever heard of is Jace Clayton, but that probably just means I'm old

kind of annoying that this thread exists and will join the ranks of "pitchfork is dumb" being bumped in perpetuity every time treeships reads someone not being nice on a blog

i would defend gawker itt but max called me unsophisticated the other day http://gagadaily.com/uploads/default_crossed.gif

http://www.reddit.com/r/Coachella/comments/32j34e/i_am_the_white_kid_saying_niggas_on_livestream_ama/

Drake said "sing this verse for me Coachella" and I wasn't about to disappoint drizzy

http://www.theunderdogcardcollector.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_20140426_0007-215x300.jpg

I mean it's a reasonable conundrum who wants to disappoint drizzy

If you're reading this, Jace, drizzy is already disappointed

kind of annoying that this thread exists and will join the ranks of "pitchfork is dumb" being bumped in perpetuity every time treeships reads someone not being nice on a blog

― flopson, Thursday, April 16, 2015 8:12 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

Lmao

Reddit thread there a lot more interesting than anything I've ever seen on Gawker

reading that reddit thread was interesting to you?

More interesting than Gawker, sure

feel like gawker's raison d'etre was to make tabloid/trashy style journalism go down smooth with a hint of overeducated "can you believe how im wasting my master's degree?" kind of irony, but they've been aggressively unfunny lately. turn it around, gawker dudes.

that's a good description of gawker

glad the kid is laughing this off and that he isn't the wilting flower i thought he might be. but still, it was always conceivable he could have been this anxious person who would freak out

crap i guess we need to shame harder

man you guys transplanted all of that hate from Dave Grohl to Gawker this week

this post isn't offensive or anything but it does make me worry a little for j0rdan's sanity
http://gawker.com/please-stop-showing-your-thumbs-on-social-media-1674295275

thumb shaming

No, that's p offensive

glad the kid is laughing this off and that he isn't the wilting flower i thought he might be. but still, it was always conceivable he could have been this anxious person who would freak out

― Treeship, Thursday, April 16, 2015 8:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmfao

this post isn't offensive or anything but it does make me worry a little for j0rdan's sanity
http://gawker.com/please-stop-showing-your-thumbs-on-social-media-1674295275

― some dude, Thursday, April 16, 2015 11:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol this did so much traffic O_O

i was making a dumb joke known only to myself as such about bolding a post and writing 'jesus' under it.

― mattresslessness, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 6:25 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aces

The thumb piece is great!

in a social media world where the #1 most popular style of photograph is people holding their phones up to a mirror, the #2 style being people's hand holding objects doesn't seem that strange or objectionable

lol this did so much traffic O_O

― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, April 17, 2015 1:17 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

not for gawker it didn't!

in a social media world where the #1 most popular style of photograph is people holding their phones up to a mirror, the #2 style being people's hand holding objects doesn't seem that strange or objectionable

― some dude, Friday, April 17, 2015 7:40 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

mirror selfies don't feature close up shots of thumbs

not for gawker it didn't!

― J0rdan S., Friday, April 17, 2015 9:33 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol relative to the inside joke posts i see it did

fwiw i have always been embarrassed by my thumbs when taking photos of things for instagram and have just automatically put my thumb behind the object as a result, this post resonates for a reason imo

my man

mirror selfies don't feature close up shots of thumbs

Reading comprehension's for the day job, huh?

andrew

might wanna read that exchange over again

Being unoppressed by the market realities of working for Gawker, I had time to read it twice before quoting it - what did I miss?

since we talked about it here:

choire sicha politely hands ronson his ass

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/books/review/jon-ronsons-so-youve-been-publicly-shamed.html

"Vonnegut ranks among the most moral of male novelists writing in English." does this mean that he doesn't morally measure up when we include female novelists?

It so happens that I have been ganged up on online, and I have also been beaten up by actual gangs of men on the street. The actual beating is — surprise! — exponentially worse. Eliding any difference between words and deeds may seem natural to a non-American like Ronson (many European nations have laws against hate speech), but it makes the continuing argument in this country about how to handle offensive language more challenging.

Jonah Lehrer isn’t actually ­annihilated, dead or even particularly injured. Not even a year after his alleged digital murder, he sold a book about love and mistakes, and while that one’s awaiting publication he has a co-authored book coming out this September. He is still only 33 years old, still represented by Andrew Wylie. Mike Daisey? Just completed a fresh run of evenings at Joe’s Pub! Jim McGreevey? Graduated from the ­General Theological Seminary, doin’ great. And Justine Sacco? Eh. . . .

so, maura otm!

But there’s public mockery, and then there’s something worse. The experience of women online is the great link between speech and ­violence, between offense and abuse. For women — and for all gender ­offenders, from gays to trans people — insult and the threat of murder are issued simultaneously. Like almost every other book, then, “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed” would probably have been handled better by a woman. Often we send a married, ­middle-aged man who makes $250,000 a year (half a million in a good year, ­apparently) to do the job. It’s fine! Ronson is a sweet and particularly talented man. But the actual problem with the Internet isn’t us hastily tweeting off about foolish people. The actual problem is that none of the men running those bazillion-dollar Internet companies can think of one ­single thing to do about all the men who send women death threats.