Is anyone else avoiding the FP’s as a bit of a ‘screw you’ to G/O?

"ClassicDatsunDebate" (gmagnusson) 11/04/2019 at 20:11 • Filed to: None

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Not sure if I’m just making up my own narrative to align with my own feelings but it looks like the comments on front page posts are way down since last weeks “happenings”.

While we continue to stay on Kinja, or more succinctly, continue to be hosted by the owners of Kinja, we need them to stay in business if only to continue to host personal Kinja sites.

G/O Media gets paid by advertisement revenue and that is proportionate to how many views and clicks the FP’s gets. In this model, just like YouTube content or network TV, you entice clicks and page views by giving your audience what they want. Most of us don’t want content mill, clickbait, auto play videos, pop ups etc etc. We want the community we had. The trick for G/O is to figure out how to monetize what we have without fucking it up.

In the mean time, I want a a cause and effect because that is the only thing that will make “the company” pay attention; their decision equals lower value.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > ClassicDatsunDebate 11/04/2019 at 20:39

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I have been avoiding it as well. Hopefully their ad revenue plummets

facw > ClassicDatsunDebate 11/04/2019 at 20:41

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I’m not actively avoiding it, but there’s no question I’m visiting less because with Splinter and Deadspin dead, there’s less interesting stuff on my dashboard, so I’m not checking there as often.

Jayvincent > ClassicDatsunDebate 11/04/2019 at 20:42

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insert emoji of curious face looking up at sky...

HammerheadFistpunch > ClassicDatsunDebate 11/04/2019 at 20:49

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I'm visiting less organically. I'm finding less and less interesting content with less and less frequency. if I'm 100% honest I'm still holding a minor grudge as well over some bad handling of some freelance work if mine.

hike > ClassicDatsunDebate 11/04/2019 at 20:53

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I'm avoiding Deadspin now. I used to read Deadspin as frequently as Jalopnik and really enjoyed some of their former writers. I still read Jalopnik, but only for the writers like Tracy and Torch. I've been getting more cars news from other sources and reading more TTAC. 

Dusty Ventures > ClassicDatsunDebate 11/04/2019 at 20:55

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It’s tough, I’d love to send a “fuck you” to G/O in any and every way possible, but I also want to support the writers and staff of the FP who are good people working their asses off and getting screwed even harder than we are.

facw > hike 11/04/2019 at 20:59

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I consider Deadspin dead. It’s clear that whatever they want it to be is not the site I enjoyed, so I unfollowed it and have left it alone. Hopefully they won’t keep up leaving it as an embarrassing shell of its former self for too long.

AestheticsInMotion > Dusty Ventures 11/04/2019 at 21:01

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I'm genuinely curious what role the union has played in all of this 

Urambo Tauro > Dusty Ventures 11/04/2019 at 21:03

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This is exactly where my mind’s at right now.

Dusty Ventures > AestheticsInMotion 11/04/2019 at 21:03

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GMG Union in an image

ClassicDatsunDebate > HammerheadFistpunch 11/04/2019 at 21:13

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I have noticed less of you in the comments.  

ClassicDatsunDebate > Dusty Ventures 11/04/2019 at 21:18

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They do see to be intransigent but we don’t know the whole story on either side. If you look at comments in blogs  outside of the Kinja bubble, commenters seem to be split.

My bird IS the word > ClassicDatsunDebate 11/04/2019 at 21:19

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Fp has been clickbait garbage for awhile now. I dont blame staff, they got bills to pay.

fintail > ClassicDatsunDebate 11/04/2019 at 21:26

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FP was dead to me some time ago.  Deadspin is now, well, dead too.    So surprised private equity ghouls are involved with this.

vicali > HammerheadFistpunch 11/04/2019 at 21:40

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I’ve been there less and less in the past months.. not much interest if I’m honest.

I’ll be sad if Oppo goes, but the lifeboat already seems like fun.

vicali > HammerheadFistpunch 11/04/2019 at 22:20

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We need an #expo tag over there on discord..

Dusty Ventures > ClassicDatsunDebate 11/04/2019 at 22:20

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I know a number of the Jalopnik staff personally and have worked with them over the years. They’re good people, Patrick has personally saved Oppo from the chopping block a number of times. They won’t roll over and I’ll gladly go to battle alongside any of them.

Cash Rewards > Dusty Ventures 11/04/2019 at 22:37

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This exactly. Patrick George getting paychecks is worth the FP visits. That Oppo had persisted through the recent transitions is due to him

CB > ClassicDatsunDebate 11/05/2019 at 00:50

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I usually only go to the FP for reviews. There has been some really good long form stuff, but it’s fewer and further between. I usually go to Driving.ca now, as I'm preferring Canadian content.

When do we a do a favourite articles thread?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Dusty Ventures 11/05/2019 at 01:20

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So for any given writer over there, what percentage of their income comes from that gig? Are they employed full time?

Dusty Ventures > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/05/2019 at 14:26

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There are a few weekenders, part timers, and freelancers, but the vast majority of the writers are full time staff.