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    Medieval KnievelJ.K. Trotter
    7/17/15 2:36pm

    Is this the thread to complain about 500 Days of Kristin, then?

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      Itto OgamiMedieval Knievel
      7/17/15 2:37pm

      Yes please! Make it stop.

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      sklayMedieval Knievel
      7/17/15 2:39pm

      Did you ever know that you’re my hero?

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    MizJenkinsJ.K. Trotter
    7/17/15 2:43pm

    So in other words Denton talked to the lawyers and found out he was about to get his ass handed to him?

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      meatwadfMizJenkins
      7/17/15 2:45pm
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      TurkSamsonMizJenkins
      7/17/15 2:45pm

      Still going to happen. That they didn’t run it by counsel is a pretty huge mistake.

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    RickeyHendersonForeverJ.K. Trotter
    7/17/15 2:34pm

    It doesn’t matter. The damage has been done. You are all pieces of shit for running it, none more so than Jordan Sargent and Max Read, and apparently Tommy Craggs, too, which.....holy shit, seriously, he STILL wants it up?

    There were 50 thousand ways to handle that and you all took the route that would garner the most clicks, and probably ruined a potential ally in the process.

    ETA: You all need to get Jordan in here and he needs to respond to his critics, which are more than founded on what they are saying.

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      ScrewKinjaRickeyHendersonForever
      7/17/15 2:37pm

      Who the hell cares about allies? If the story is a story, that’s what it is. If people are going to defend them on the Hogan issue, you can’t suddenly turn around and decide that this story makes you uncomfortable. You’re either going to put everything out there or you aren’t, but moving into a murky middle suggests they’ll play favourites to garner the favour of ‘allies’ as you like to call them.

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      RickeyHendersonForeverScrewKinja
      7/17/15 2:39pm

      If you can’t understand the simple nature of what I posted, I am sorry. Also, if you want to turn it into something much more difficult and nuanced, be my guest. But what I said is not difficult to process once your outrage has subsided. Have a great day.

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    Brad ConnersJ.K. Trotter
    7/17/15 2:33pm

    IT BEGINS.

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      Caitlyn Jenner's ClitorisBrad Conners
      7/17/15 2:35pm

      Lawsuit time.

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      meatwadfCaitlyn Jenner's Clitoris
      7/17/15 2:36pm

      I hope so.

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    A House In VirginiaJ.K. Trotter
    7/17/15 2:57pm

    What grosses me out most of all (not knowing 100% of the story like a true internet commenter):

    you protected the PORN STAR??? REALLY? Barf.

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      jonhernA House In Virginia
      7/17/15 3:15pm

      Sorry, but its not because he is a porn star, they are people just like everyone else, but its because he is a fucking blackmailer. They protected the fucking blackmailer.

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      Basic ButchA House In Virginia
      7/17/15 3:18pm

      It isn’t unusual to protect a source, and being a porn star shouldn’t matter.

      What should matter is that their source was using them to commit blackmail, they knew it and even reported it, and they rolled with it anyway.

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    Wendel Clark BarJ.K. Trotter
    7/17/15 2:34pm

    Hey, Craggs, if you’re reading this, I’m curious about something. The awful, terrible, destructive, pointless, sleazy, amoral, all-around shitty decision to publish that story last night aside, if your justification is Max Read’s “given the chance gawker will always report on married c-suite executives of major media companies fucking around on their wives” is it your assertion that assuming his wife didn’t know what he was doing, it was wrong of him to cheat on her? Because that would imply you were at least partially doing it to defend the sanctity of marriage, specifically in the harm done to this woman by her supposedly cheating husband. If so, completely aside from how disgusting it is to publicly out a non-public figure while benefiting and abetting (not to mention protecting) an extortionist, how do you justify what this is doing to the man’s wife (the one you’re so incensed he cheated on) and their kids?

    “Don’t fuck around on your wife or we’ll make your wife’s life a living hell by making her and her children’s family life the centre of a huge media controversy. You’ve been warned.”

    Curious as to why you approved, edited, and voted against retracting this story?

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      ZachHodesWendel Clark Bar
      7/17/15 2:43pm

      Not Tommy Craggs, but adultery is a real crime in Illinois, punishable by up to a year in jail. Regardless of how cool with it your partner is.

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      Chris O Neill CabraWendel Clark Bar
      7/17/15 2:44pm

      Wendel, God only knows what that mans family are going through right now. It is terrible but I think the wife has a right to know if her ‘husband’ is a homosexual. How do you know he hasn’t been engaging in unprotected gay sex before this? He puts his own and his wifes health under threat. At the end of the day all this man thought about was his own selfish gratification.

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    ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILDJ.K. Trotter
    7/17/15 2:36pm

    Sounds like Hulkamania’s running wild through Gawker.

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      TurkSamsonʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
      7/17/15 2:44pm

      Hulkamania is real. Hulkamania is one.

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      JT_Pearland146ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
      7/17/15 2:46pm

      Whatca going to do Nick Denton when the 24 inch pythons get ahold of you?

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    PetehammerJ.K. Trotter
    7/17/15 2:38pm

    Legit question: in the past, someone like Jordan would have been canned immediately. With the new union, how will you possibly terminate him when the union will argue that an editor had oversight over the post and therefore Jordan isn’t culpable or this wasn’t a terminable offense. You’ll have to step through due process, just cause, and progressive discipline.

    Question #2: Are guys like Hamilton Nolan super thrilled that his union dues will be going to this guy’s defense?

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      FaaaaaaaaaaaaaartzPetehammer
      7/17/15 2:55pm

      “union dues will be going to this guy’s defense?”

      Ha. So true. I support unions in theory, but I’ve been in three where the only significant action they took while I was there was to support sexual harrassers who we all knew were guilty.”

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      adultosaur married anna on the astral planePetehammer
      7/17/15 2:59pm

      would he get canned? he had support in writing the piece the whole time, it seems?

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    TraceJ.K. Trotter
    7/17/15 2:53pm

    Gonna make one comment on this as someone who obviously pokes around the comment sections of this site a lot:

    Ya’ll got to pull yourselves together. I realize this site is never going to be the pinnacle of excellence, but this is the second time in a month I seriously found myself going ‘.......’ at decisions made by whoever is in charge.

    (The first being that horrendous article where you posted a poorly blurred death picture and threw it on the front page - yeah, not forgetting about that shit)

    I don’t want to be uncomfortable coming to this site. I like debating and talking with the regulars here and I like a lot of the articles. I like a lot of the writers here, for that matter. This shit needs to stop. That the article went as far as it did to even be written and posted says a lot about the going ons behind the scenes, and I hope every single person on your staff that was involved in its’ conception is doing a lot of soul searching today on what you want this site to be.

    I get clickbait. I do. But there is a line and it was crossed, and no amount of taking it back is going to help the person you outed. You are the bad guys today.

    To the people commenting on every goddamn article, including the excellent one that was just posted talking about fundamentalism: Stop. You are in the right right now, do not fuck up your position by pulling this constant bullshit. If it made you that angry, stop coming here. You are literally giving them exactly what they want (clicks). You now have a place to post whatever you want on the subject (this one), so there is no reason to harass writers who had nothing to do with this.

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      AndyTrace
      7/17/15 4:27pm

      Agreed. I’m a Gawker supporter, though the Hogan thing was douchy, and the continued posts defending it are even worse. There are things I don’t like - the 5 Million Days of Kristin, or whatever - but for the most part, I enjoy Gawker... but you have had a rough month. Blasting pictures of somebody dead (with blurring that basically did nothing), this story... you guys need to have a team meeting and get those Gawker standards back up a bit. The Hulk thing seems to have rattled your cage a bit, and not in the right way.

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    Armageddon T. ThunderbirdJ.K. Trotter
    7/17/15 2:35pm

    Thank you.

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      TayTayTrutherArmageddon T. Thunderbird
      7/17/15 2:37pm

      I second that.

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      Medieval KnievelArmageddon T. Thunderbird
      7/17/15 2:47pm

      (Glad to have you back. I acknowledge that you stuck to your word.)

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